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Here's a Game Plan for YOU to take Stock in our Youth and our Future Priority One is a community action plan to reduce the levels of youthful drug abuse by 50 percent before the year 2006. The plan is based on current scientific findings about prevention and local factors impacting south Florida youth. Specific actions you can take are listed as Impact Stock Options on the next pages. Priority One adopts the rationales of the National Drug Strategy to help young people be free of any alcohol, tobacco or other non-medical drugs use until they reach the age of 21. By doing so they will significantly reduce the chance of an addiction problem in their life. Our youth are our Priority One and helping them to be and stay drug-free is the most significant community-wide contribution we can make to the future. This plan will help 1,000,000 local youth over the period of its engagement. Each of them will make a greater Miami-Dade County. You are encouraged to report your activities advancing the plan by enrolling in Priority One's Impact Stock Program. There's no cost, just your time and help. Your participation will help track community progress and you'll get back impact reports linking your part in making it happen. Stocks will also earn prizes and awards for you or community groups. More information and the Priority One Prevention Projections are available from the Enrollment form. You may open an individual or organizational Priority One Impact Stock account.

1. Increase the ability of parents and adults to discourage drug use among our youth.
	Arrange and/or conduct seminars for parents and other adults about how to effectively communicate to young people the importance of not using alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Promote or participate in radio and television programs addressing how parents and other adults may effectively talk with youth about the importance of being drug-free. Write or encourage publication of articles in the print media, newsletter, and websites directed to parents, other adults, organizations, businesses, health-care providers and others on the importance of communicating with young people about substance abuse.
2. Increase the capacity for youth to influence other youth not to use drugs and to intervene in situations in which drug use is present.
	Create, conduct, sponsor and/or participate in educational programs for youth concerning the harmfulness of drugs. Sponsor, host, promote and/or participate in forums focusing on youth-to-youth messages and intervention strategies about what to do when a friend is in trouble. Encourage, sponsor, host and engage in youth-led discussions about helping young people to be and stay drug-free
3. Continue and enhance the community's vigorous anti-drug media and public information campaigns.
	Produce, publish, or air anti-drug messages and advertisements in newsletter, bulletins, etc. Incorporate messages promoting the goals of Priority One into corporate, organizational, school, religious, and other advertisements, websites and publications. Acknowledge donated anti-drug public service announcements with letters of appreciation and/or purchase of advertisements from those who donated air time and print space for messages consistent with the goals of Priority One.
4. Support and enhance school-based prevention programs.
	Submit a comprehensive list of drug abuse prevention/intervention programs and activities held in your school to the Priority One Tracking Center. Help design evaluations for prevention programs in a public or private school.
5. Promote and support community-based prevention and intervention programs.
	Learn about the three strategy objectives of Priority One. Integrate those objectives into a substance abuse prevention program for a community organization. Participate in Priority One process and/or impact evaluations of community prevention projects by accumulating Priority One Stock Shares for timely reporting of activities.
6. Disseminate information on the negative consequences of drug legalization on youth.
	Sponsor, host, conduct and/or participate in an educational training regarding the negative consequences of drug legalization. Participate in a "Training of the Trainers" with The Miami Coalition. Refuse to sign a petition for placing an initiative on a State or local ballot that would change the illegal status of marijuana and other controlled drugs. Vote against an initiative to legalize marijuana and other illicit drugs.

	Create, promote, and conduct activities to further the goals of Priority One. Participate in a Priority One Opportunity Event. Tell someone else about Priority One and look for new ways to earn impact Stock as the program continues.

	Good Stuff, like trips to Paris, and some other great things. But that all comes later. First, we need you to help us demonstrate that the community can reduce youthful substance use if we work together. Priority One presents the opportunity to track our collective progress and your contributions to that effort. You may open an individual, family, institution, or corporate Priority One Impact Stock Account. You may participate in acquiring stock for various accounts, but a service activity may be credited to only one account at a time. There is no cost to participate, and you won't be expected to give money, just your time and commitment to helping youth be and stay drug-free. Receive 1,000 Stock shares when you enroll.
Sign up
	Enroll today online Or Request a fax registration form by faxing (305) 284-6870 with your return fax number, Or Send your name and address to Priority One Impact Stock, The Miami Coalition For A Safe And Drug-Free Community University of Miami, The North-South Center 1500 Monza Avenue Coral Gables, FL 33146-3027 Sorry, no enrollment by phone. Thanks!