Our Strategic Plan

The purpose of this plan is to guide the process of constituting and launching the Harris County Drug Court Foundation. In its current form, this plan includes areas that have been completed by the Drug Court Foundation Strategic Planning Committee and approved by the Board of Directors.

Executive summary

The Harris County Drug Court Foundation will raise community support for the Harris County Drug Court program, Success Through Addiction Recovery (STAR), along with money to pay for treatment of non-violent, non-trafficking drug dependent offenders through the STAR Program. The plan for building the Foundation includes a Board of Directors, to consist of no fewer than seven (7) and no more than thirteen (13) members, whose main jobs will be governance, policy guidance, and money raising. A minimal staff, supported by volunteers, will aid in fundraising and the production of advocacy.

The Foundations efforts will be strictly limited to supporting the STAR Program.

The advocacy messages in support of the STAR Program, as an alternative to simple incarceration, will be as follows:

• Drug court is a more compassionate way to treat non-violent, non-trafficking drug de-pendent offenders.
• By addressing drug dependency among offenders, the treatment offered through the STAR Program leads to reduced crime.
• Because treatment through the STAR Program costs less, drug court prevents unnecessary waste of public money.

The Foundation will add value to donations, by using a portion of them to attract more support (multiplying the donors' gifts), and offering rich information about the Program to donor communities.

Timelines, milestones, targets for milestone dates, and targets for money raised, are in the body of the Plan.

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