The HKLN Drug Strategy is a partnership of over 50 organizations across the three counties working within social services and healthcare.

​Duties of the HKLN Drug Strategy are to:
 

• Provide advice to the HKLN Drug Strategy and Steering Committee

• Attend, prepare for, and participate in meetings

• Represent individual agencies/groups (if one), and communicate between it and the HKLN DS Committee

• Share relevant agency/group/individual updates with other Members

• Participate in discussions and decision-making

• Propose and contribute to initiatives that align with our vision, guiding principles, and objectives

• Participate in collaborative initiatives

• Support the work of other members, through partnerships, promotion of services, and referrals

• Elect a Chair and/or have rotating members take on Chair responsibilities on an annual basis
   

While operational decisions are made by the Coordinators and Steering Committee, Working Groups comprised of HKLN Drug Strategy Members make project specific decisions. Bi-monthly member meetings provide a platform for information sharing among Drug Strategy Members, balancing the need for inclusion with the need for action. Decisions are made by consensus of Members in attendance at in-person meetings, and by majority vote of participating Members by electronic means (i.e., e-mail, online survey) where real-time discussions to assess consensus are impractical due to time, geography, or other constraints.