Services & Implementation

The long-range goal of The National Drug Free Youth Foundation is to provide information and governing principles to assist schools, governments, organizations, and individuals to develop, create, and maintain NDF chapters.  This would include program manuals, information, free or discounted drug testing, and both technical and financial assistance in the creation and development of local chapters.  NDF will serve as the vehicle for National recognition, and will handle large-scale promotion, marketing, and advertising through major marketing campaigns, serving to boost enrollment and merchant participation on local and National levels.  Local chapters can add certain components to their program curriculums such as community service, and can promote and market themselves to provide added services and value to their programs.

Additionally, NDF will serve as a National Drug Test Bank for local chapters and outside affiliates.  Funding for this crucial component for the small existing programs is a factor that greatly affects their sustainability and challenges the quality and longevity of the program.  These unassisted programs can only exist and be successful contingent upon having a laboratory that can fulfill the drug testing requirements at an affordable rate. 

NDF will also provide marketing materials, t-shirts, folders, window stickers, National merchant discounts and support, a major web portal, training, volunteer support, start-up assistance and development manuals, funding, and referral linkage systems for students needing intervention, and treatment services. 

There are three organizational stages for the Foundation, which include Pre-Development, Development, and Fully Operational.  Pre-Development implementation includes office setup, staff recruitment, strategic planning, marketing plan development, presentation development, sponsor database development, sponsor contact and regional staff recruitment. 

Initial staffing includes volunteers and Board Members who have worked and have expertise in social services, community relations, public administration, school districts, governmental relations, marketing, promotions, and various financial backgrounds to assist the organization in its flexible income generating strategies for sustainability and growth.

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