Conduct outreach to judges to include them in future summits and other planning factors.

Expand community policing efforts.

Establish training programs for residential rehab/treatment personnel.

Publicize youth activities in the newspaper, radio announcements, and postings at school.

Secure funding from the State to create drug courts.

Pass legislation to make laws/sentences stricter for drug dealers that sell to or use youths for distribution.

Educate families through a public awareness campaign about where the public can go to go for services.

Involve grassroots organizations (Boys and Girls Club, seniors, faith organizations) in the drug education effort.

Write a comprehensive plan for providing alternative activities and safe places for youth.

Identify usable facilities for youth recreation and do a cost analysis for remodeling or building new facilities.

Create a mentor program using adults and other youth as positive role models for youth.

Implement culturally based, positive after-school activities such as skill-building programs and hands-on education (sailing, gardening, etc.).

Create a program for youth that involves job training and shadowing, entrepreneurial activities, and the creation of internship opportunities.

Develop, through the Department of Education, a mandatory drug curriculum for all grades on a consistent basis.

Create a cross-sector task force to implement a comprehensive public educaiton plan that reaches out to children, funding sources, families, professionals, teachers, social workers, judges, etc., through the media, the Internet, and recovering addicts.

Create a prison drug treatment facility (for users only) to teach anger management, vocational, parenting and life skills, in a safe environment.

Create programs that incorporate one-on-one counseling with parent and child when drug problems are prevalent in the family.

Hold a youth summit to identify kids' needs.