Make Your Neighborhood Drug-Free

Follow these guidelines to clean out your neighborhood - based on the recommendations of the U.S. Department of Education and the National Crime Prevention Council.

Things You'll Need

• Banners
• Bonded Paper
• Envelopes
• Pens
• Flyers

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Instructions

• 1

  Form a neighborhood watch group, a community patrol or block association. Recruit your neighbors to patrol the streets and record license-plate numbers of suspicious vehicles.

• 2

  Work actively with the police. Invite them to your neighborhood meetings and inform them of suspicious activities.

• 3

  Provide neighborhood young people with positive activities as alternatives to being involved with drugs.

• 4

  Enlist the aid of your city public works department to clean up the streets. They can help put up bright lights, sweep up litter, paint over graffitti and plant flowers.

• 5

  Put banners and signs, or even use a loudspeaker or bullhorn, to publicly broadcast to dealers that your community is alert to their activities.

• 6

  Protest businesses and landlords who allow or ignore drug dealers and their actions.

• 7

  Organize block parties and neighborhood volleyball games to show dealers a strong, united front.

• 8

  Encourage your children! Reinforce anti-drug attitudes, and reassure your kids that you love them and that they don't need drugs.