About Us

Our Mission Statement

We will be unrelenting in the pursuit of safety for children exposed to the extreme dangers of drug abuse environments.

We will facilitate collaborative efforts across all government and private organizations to:

Prevent drug abuse;
Provide response resources to children when prevention fails; and
Aggressively break the cycles of drug abuse.

We will be steadfast in our dedication to the mission and core values of DEC to ensure the concepts become institutionalized.

Our Values

Safety

We will relentlessly pursue the end of drug abuse to prevent children from experiencing the physical, emotional, and psychological damage that exposure to drug environments cause.

We will enhance the safety of children by rescuing them from dangerous drug environments and providing them with appropriate follow-up care and services.

We will break drug abuse cycles and return or place children in family environments that are completely free of dangerous drugs.

Collaboration

We will insist on the participation of everyone to actively pursue the end of social tolerance to the abuse of dangerous drugs.

We will form alliances, partnerships, and organizations across all government and private services to ensure appropriate tools and resources exist to identify, rescue, and treat children in dangerous drug environments.

We will identify and implement multidisciplinary services and strategies necessary to break the cycles of drug abuse.

Dedication

We will hold ourselves and our partners accountable to appropriately provide the services necessary to accomplish the mission of DEC.

We will vigorously pursue the institutionalization of the DEC concept.

We will continually evaluate the effectiveness of our efforts to ensure the DEC mission is achieved.