About Us - Task Force Members

Mission Statement
To combat the meth epidemic by educating the community about its dangers, preventing its spread, and providing treatment resources to victims and all those affected while actively pursuing the arrest and prosecution of persons facilitating the manufacture and sale of methamphetamine.

Fayette Meth Taskforce- a program of FACTOR~Fayette Alliance Coordinating Teamwork, Outreach and Resources, is a community coalition that was born out of a MethWatch seminar - Methamphetamines and The Community. The seminar was designed to share what happens when this drug infiltrates a community and what the community can do to combat it.

It is proven that addressing the methamphetamine problem at the local level can, and has in many other areas:

- reduce meth use by youth
- increase public awareness that leads to
- increase in arrests
- decrease in lab seizures
- decrease in theft of precursor products from retail stores
- decrease in perceived availability of the drug
- increase in community safety
- increase in collaboration

These are all accomplished with no additional burden to any one agency or organization, but rather it involves the support and direction from many key stakeholders in the community

This committee is geared toward educating those persons that are not at risk for Meth use, but because of their work or personal involvement, need to be educated on what Meth is and the dangers it poses. The following are some of the targeted groups: law enforcement, DFCS employees, school employees, all civic organizations, all public service workers.

This committee will focus their efforts on those persons at risk for Meth use. This committee will develop a presentation that will be presented to all youth organizations (and parents) possible.

This committee's tasks will include gathering information on treatment options, providers and make a Resource guide that will be distributed to school counselors, social workers, DFCS employees, law enforcement, judicial entities, and the community at large. They will provide support to family members of addicts and eventually may be available 24/7 for a help hotline. This committee will be responsible for forming and facilitating a Crystal Meth Anonymous group

This committee is geared toward the arrest of persons involved in manufacturing and distributing Meth in our county. Keeping current on drug trends in the county and the country; sharing information they receive in training and training EMS, DFCS CPS workers, judicial entities and other county officials. They also will be responsible for training retail regarding observing and reporting suspicious activity of those purchasing large quantities of ingredients used to manufacture Meth.