Advocacy Strength through Growth
The combined membership of the 23 pre-eminent African American professional organizations is 254,578 strongthroughout the United States, and worldwide. The Coalition will tap the considerable knowledge, experience and talent of the combined membership to accomplish the expressed goals of the Coalition.
Long Range Planning
Strategic Planning and keeping pace with community strengths and legislative barriers.
Fundraising Initiatives
Focused fundraising and effective community based drug treatment programs.
Prevention Education
The NAADPC seeks to harness the energies and resources of the Coalition member organizations to educate and thereby improve policy and practice in major population centers across this country. Such a professional partnership has great potential to make a difference.
Our Mission
The National African American Drug Policy Coalition is a coalition of pre-eminent African American professional organizations united to promote drug policies and laws that embrace the public health nature of drug abuse and provide a more effective and humane approach to address the chronic societal problem of drug abuse.
We Are Subject Matter Experts
The intelligent choice
for
African American
drug policy advocacy
Experienced Board of Directors
President & Chair
Winston Price, MD
Executive director
Judge Arthur L. Burnett, Sr. (Ret.)
Secretary-Treasurer
Ura Jean Bailey, PhD
Vice president of administration
Judge Lynn Sherrod (Ret.)
Board Member
Julius Debro, PhD
Board member
William B. Lawson, MD, PhD
Our Mission
The National African American Drug Policy Coalition is a coalition of pre-eminent African American professional organizations united to promote drug policies and laws that embrace the public health nature of drug abuse and provide a more effective and humane approach to address the chronic societal problem of drug abuse.
The NAADPC provides a non-partisan forum for developing and promoting policies and practices related to substance abuse in the African American community. The organization will present an interdisciplinary, scientifically grounded perspective, and thereby provide a voice now missing from the highly polarized debate on public health versus punitive approaches.
Outstanding solutions to
address equity in drug policy
The NAADPC provides a non-partisan forum for developing and promoting policies and practices related to substance abuse in the African American community. The organization will present an interdisciplinary, scientifically grounded perspective, and thereby provide a voice now missing from the highly polarized debate on public health versus punitive approaches.
Building Community Engagement
To provide enrichment opportunities and comprehensive health education to youth as a means of preventing drug use and other potentially harmful behaviors.
Criminal Justice Reform
To restore equity to the criminal justice system by addressing the disproportional adverse effect of drug law enforcement on people of color and the poor.
Made With Public Health Science
To shift public resources into education, prevention, treatment and research programs, which has been proven significantly more effective in reducing drug abuse than the use of expensive criminal sanctions.
Testimonials
What our clients says
George Jones Client
The program was just what I needed and everyone provided continual encouragement toward my recovery.
Jonathan Nelson Conference Attendee
This was one of the most comprehensive
drug policy seminars
I have attended. Kudos to NAADPC
Steven Jackson Vendor
Working with the folks
at NAADPC was a joy. They are professional and serve their customers well.
The Baltimore program is a welcome addition to the community.
Angel Santiago Community Partner
The collaboration with NAADPC has helped our local organization
grow and we are able to serve more clients.
We worked with NAADPC since 2010.
