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Causes: Mental Health, Substance Abuse Dependency, Prevention & Treatment
Mission: Our mission is to extend a helping hand to make a difference in the lives we touch in georgia, through education, advocacy, prevention and intervention.
Programs: Comprehensive victim services program - through this program, hodac ensures that victim's of crime in houston county have a voice by promoting justice through court advocacy, facilitating access to community resources, offering personal advocacy and support, and educating victims and the community about victimization and victim's right.
in addition, hodac provides the following services: rape prevention education - primary prevention and education to children, youth, community leaders and the general public in hopes of reducing perpetration of rape and sexual assault in the community; youth services - includes an in school program aimed at preventing drug and alcohol use in children, fostering increased self-esteem, learning conflict resolution skills, anger management, and development skills necessary to avoid risky behavior and succeed in school in life; prevention programs - designed to implement prevention services and education in houston, peach and crawford counties aimed at impacting the following three georgia statewide goals: reduce early onset of alcohol use among 9 to 20 year olds, reduce access to alcohol and binge drinking among 9 to 20 year olds, and reduce binge and heavy drinking among 18 to 25 year olds; drugs don't work drug free workplace certification - employers can provide for a more productive work place and reduce workers compensation premiums by getting certified through hodac; drug screening - provides services to businesses and the general public; driver training - provides courses for defensive driving and dui risk reduction.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.