The Council on Alcohol and Drugs

What it reported doing in 2024

The council was funded by the Georgia department of behavioral health and developmental disabilities, division of behavioral health, office behavioral health prevention (dbhdd/dbh/obhp) to conduct an partners in prevention project (pipp). The council conducted pipp programs in five of dbhdd's six regions across the state. The council is working in collaboration with local, regional and statewide partners to serve selected target communities located in the following counties: region 1: banks franklin and habersham; region 2: madison and stephens; region 3: newton; region 5: candler, telfair, and wheeler; region 6: butts.during the implementation phase council staff have been supervising and implementing 10 environmental strategies and 10 individual strategies. These strategies are based on local needs that were identified during the needs assessment phase. Each strategy is implemented with fidelity and is tailored uniquely for each local community. These strategies include sources of strength, counter advertising, all stars, and positive social norms.the strategic prevention framework (spf) suicide prevention project was conducted in two of the six dbhdd regions across the state. The council is working in collaboration with local, regional, and statewide partners to serve selected target communities located in the following counties: region 1: towns, union, and lumpkin and region 6: crawford, peach, and houston in fy25. During the fifth year of funding, the council continued capacity building, planning, and implementation phases of the strategic prevention framework for all counties being served with a focus on sustainability in each region.during the 2025 year, the region 1 spf project coordinator (pc)partnered with local family connections, schools, businesses, churches, colleges, and more to bring suicide prevention resources and training to the local communities. Pc was a vendor at many events throughout the year where she distributed medicine safes and suicide prevention resources. Medicine safes were filled with suicide prevention resources, mental health resources, and council brochures. Pc also sponsored several events, including the Georgia mountain fair and the hiawassee pro rodeo where she set up aninformational booth. Some additonal events that pc attended included: family connections region 2 resource fair, mile long yard sale fundraising event at Georgia mountain fairgrounds, lumpkin county spring fling care fair, towns county field day, the Georgia mountain fair, the Georgia mountain fair fall festival, librarysummer series events, lumpkin county halloween bash resource fair, townsfamily fitness night, sharp memorial trunk or treat, young harris college suicide prevention day, young harris college trunk or treat, and back to schol bash events. Pc partnered with the local community service board (csb) to provide medicine safes for their clients. Pc provided approximately 150 medicine safes to avita throughout the year for towns, union, and lumpkin counties. Pc donated other supplies such as hygiene kits and care packages to the local csb and night school for clients and students in need. These kits also included suicide prevention resources. Pc also provided school supplies and volunteered at back-to-school events throughout the communities.pc provided several question persuade refer (qpr) gatekeeper trainings throughout the year for organizations including the salvation army, habersham county senior center, union county schools, fca leaders, youth staff at sharp memorial, local homeschool groups, and young harris college students, faculty, and staff.pc attended trainings, confrences and workshops in 2025 including, cadac mid-year and Georgia school of addiction stuides. During 2025, region 6 participated in eight collaboratives including crawford/houston/peach family connections collaboratives, river edge behavioral health suicide prevention coalition, resilient middle Georgia collaborative, macon mental health m

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 85.4%; rating input score 85
• Program expense ratio: 89.6%; rating input score 90
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Pass
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 4.8%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 14.5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings