A Flagler County 501(c)(3) since 2009
Treatment costs a fraction of a prison cell — and it gives our neighbors their lives back.
Every year, Flagler County residents living with a substance use disorder come through our courts. Drug court offers them supervised treatment instead of incarceration. We are the local foundation that pays for the things the court budget doesn't cover — and the ones that decide whether someone finishes.
Where your tax dollars go
One year in a Florida prison cell costs about four and a half times what one year of drug court costs.
This is the part that persuades people who have never met anyone in recovery. Drug court is not the soft option — it is the cheap one.
Incarceration — Florida
$34,898
per person, per yearFlorida Department of Corrections full operating cost — $95.61 per person per day. Actual figure for fiscal year 2024–25.
Drug court — Florida
$7,840
per participant, per yearStatewide average annual cost per drug court participant, from the Florida Legislature's own program evaluation office.
Where these numbers come from — and the honest caveat.
The incarceration figure is the Florida Department of Corrections' full operating cost per inmate for FY 2024–25, as adopted by the state's Criminal Justice Estimating Conference in February 2026 (Office of Economic and Demographic Research).
The drug court figure is the statewide average annual cost per participant reported by OPPAGA Report 14-02, published in 2014 — the most recent Florida-specific per-participant analysis we can point to. Those are 2014 dollars. Adjusted for inflation it would land somewhere near $10,000–$11,000 today, which still leaves drug court costing well under a third of a prison bed. We would rather show you the caveat than quietly compare two different years.
[CLIENT — OPTIONAL UPGRADE] If the Seventh Judicial Circuit or the Office of the State Courts Administrator can give us a current Flagler County cost-per-participant figure, we should swap it in. A local number beats a statewide number from 2014 for every audience that matters here.
Give something specific
Your gift buys a thing, not an abstraction.
The court supplies the judge, the case manager and the supervision. We supply the rest — and the rest is usually what decides whether someone can keep showing up.
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Narcan kits
Two-dose naloxone kits handed out free at community events, to families, and to people leaving treatment. We have given these away in Flagler County since 2019.
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A ride to treatment
Missing appointments is one of the most common reasons a person is discharged from the program. Transportation is often the entire difference.
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Drug testing & graduation
Regular testing is what makes the court's accountability real. Graduation is what makes finishing feel like something. Both cost money.
Give this[CLIENT MUST SUPPLY REAL COSTS] We have deliberately left these three dollar amounts blank rather than invent them. Please send us what these actually cost the Foundation:
- Cost of one two-dose Narcan/naloxone kit as you acquire it
- Typical cost of getting one participant to and from treatment for a month
- Cost of one drug test, and the per-person cost of a graduation
Once you send these, each tier gets a real number and its button links
straight to the donation form at that amount. Set them in
index.html (data-amount) — nothing else needs to change.
What the program produces
Flagler County drug court, by the numbers.
We publish our own results rather than borrowing national averages.
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People who have graduated from Flagler County drug court since 2009
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Completion rate for people who enter the program
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Re-arrest rate for graduates, compared with [ — ]% for similar cases that did not go through drug court
[PLACEHOLDER — DO NOT PUBLISH UNTIL VERIFIED] These three figures are blank on purpose. Nobody invented them. Source them from the Seventh Judicial Circuit drug court coordinator or the Office of the State Courts Administrator, and note the date range they cover so we can label the numbers accurately on the page.
Club 100 — our monthly circle
$10 a month sustains one person's support for a year.
A single gift helps once. A monthly gift is what lets us tell a case manager yes in the middle of February, when someone needs a ride, a test, or a kit and there is no grant cycle coming.
Club 100 is exactly what it sounds like: a hundred neighbors giving $120 a year — $10 a month — so that the Foundation always has something in hand. It is the most useful money we receive.
Club 100 members
Local businesses and neighbors already giving at this level.
Business sponsors are listed here and thanked at the annual Ride for Recovery. Sponsor as a business →
Free, public, no questions asked
Learn to reverse an overdose in about twenty minutes.
In 2019 we became the first local nonprofit to secure a Florida Department of Children and Families grant to hand out Narcan at no cost. Since then we have trained county departments and school district staff, and we still give kits away at community events.
Next Narcan training
[NEXT CLASS DATE — CLIENT TO SUPPLY]
Date, time, and location to be confirmed by the Foundation.
Flagler County
This is a local organization, run by neighbors.
