Dayton task force is working on the following goals:

• Create opportunities for youth to succeed ·
• Help develop more positive role models out of people in positions of power and influence. ·
• Create opportunities for youth to have a consistent and ongoing voice in town.

Projects and tasks Dayton Task Force is currently working on: 

• Continue to support and strengthen the Dayton and Silver Springs mentoring program ·
• Continue to support and strengthen the Stand Tall Don't Fall teens organization dedicated to the prevention of underage drinking -- these teens will mentor younger teens who are first time offenders with substance abuse. ·
• Complete at lease one Service Learning Project in 2003 linking adults with youth in a project that promotes learning and a healthy community ·
• Support new Best Practice Program Parents Who Care

Risk Factor:

• Availability of Drugs 

• Business License Sites in Lyon County Selling Tobacco and/or Liquor (2000 business License Division)

Key risk factors the Fernley task force prioritized and is currently focusing on:

1. Availability of drugs
 2. Low Neighborhood Attachment
3. Community laws and norms favorable to drug use

Key Assets Fernley Task Force is focusing and building upon:

1. Constructive use of time
2. Adult Role Models
3. Restraint and resistance skills

Fernley Task Force is working on the following goals: ·

• Find out what young people want and need to occupy their free time. ·
• Offer resources and opportunities to both middle and high school students. ·
• Get input from neighborhoods and continue to educate them about assets as well as promote social networks among them

Projects and tasks Fernley Task Force is currently working on:

•  Continue to support and enhance the Friday Night Open Gym Program ·
• Offer quality alternative activities once a month for high school or middle school students, which includes but is not limited to dances, pizza parties, and other social gatherings. ·
• Combine at least one Service Learning Project in 2003 linking adults and youth in a project that promotes learning and a healthy community.

 Silver Springs

Key risk factors the Silver Springs task force prioritized and is currently focusing on:

1. Availability of Drugs
2. Low Neighborhood Attachment
3. Community laws and norms favorable to drug use, firearms, and crime

Key assets the Silver Springs task force is focusing and building upon:

1. Service to others
2. Neighborhood boundaries
3. Constructive use of time
4. Restraint and resistance skills

Risk Factor: Community laws the norms favorable to drug use.
Of those who drink alcohol, those who usually get their alcoholic beverages from, with or without parental knowledge. -2001 Nevada YRBS ??

Silver Springs Task Force is working on the following goals: ·

• Find out what young people want and need to occupy their free time. What do they want in their community? ·
• Recruit more youth to be on the task force. ·
•  Involve more youth in the community in leadership and ambassador roles.

 Project and tasks the Silver Springs Task Force is currently working on: ·
 

• Collaborate with other teams in the county to create a Stand Tall Youth team in Silver Springs.
•  Continue to support Friday Night Live and alternate youth activities such as the summer recreation program.
• Help celebrate the opening of the new Silver Stage High School and work with the school and community to make it a true community hub and treasure.
• Complete at least one Service Learning Project in 2003 linking adults and youth in a project that promotes learning and a healthy community.

Virginia City

Key risk factors the Virginia City Task Force prioritized and is currently focusing on:

1. Availability of Drugs
2. Community laws and norms favorable to drug use, firearms, and crime.
3. Early and persistent antisocial behavior
4. Lack of commitment to school

Key assets the Virginia City Task Force is focusing and building upon:

1. One or more positive role models
2. A sense of purpose
3. Constructive use of time

 Virginia City Task Force is working on the following goals:

• Educate the school board and other formal groups about the task force and Assets ·
• Mobilize resources to make sure all kids have equal starts/steady starts. ·
• Involve more youth in the community in leadership and asset-building roles to serve as cross-age coaches and mentors

Projects and tasks Virginia City Task Force is working on:

• Create and support several after-school clubs that will focus on different aspects of art, culture, history, leadership, and prevention at the middle school. The task force will meet monthly with leaders from these clubs to get information about how they are working. The clubs will be held at the middle school with an adult mentor.
• Continue to organize "Off the Hill Fieldtrips" to provide positive alternatives that are drug and alcohol free and where students are exposed to positive leadership.
• Continue with the ongoing Service Learning Project that is bringing together local historians and students to create an interpretive trail for residents and tourists.
• Continue to glamorize youth sobriety.

Yerington

Key risk factors the Yerington task force prioritized and is currently focusing on:

1. Availability of Drugs
2. Economic Deprivation
3. Family Management Problems

Key assets the Yerington task force is focusing and building upon:

1. Constructive use of time
 2. Sense of purpose
3. Integrity

Yerington Task Force is working on the following goals:

• Raise and secure funds to insure success! ·
• Get more youth involved in asset building.
•  Organize a communication campaign that links the public and other youth-focused groups. ·
• Focus on what is doable and get it done on time.

Projects and tasks Yerington Task Force is working on:

• Continue with an ongoing Service Learning Project that partners youth with the local theater to present community plays that focus on youth making good choices about drugs.
• Continue to support 4H programs that use older youth to mentor younger youth through animal science activities.
• Continue to work with the Boys and Girls Club to schedule alternative activities for Yerington youth.