• Workplace chairs have been Bill Stokes, Tom Van Etten and Dan Stickler.
• The Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce was the leader in establishing a drug-free workplace program - first BAD (Businesses Against Drugs) and then BAND (Businesses Against Narcotics and Drugs).
• The Workplace Committee embraced the BAND program, added to it, and went out into the community to engage area businesses in it.
• The BAND program is the model for the National "Drugs Don’t Work" program.
• Currently 61% of the workforce in Miami Dade County is employed by a company or organization with a drug-free policy.
• An educational component was needed for BAND, so the Intervention Treatment and Recovery Committee created "Project First Aid".
• Originally designed as an intervention model, Project First Aid has been adapted to become the yearly educational component needed by companies to maintain their 5% workman’s compensation reduction.
• The "Jobs" Committee, created before the American with Disabilities Act, identified and placed 116 recovering individuals into positions with organizations and businesses belonging to The Miami Coalition.
• The Youth Employment Committee under the leadership of Marty Urra and Shirley Aron, linked hundreds of young people with available job placements.
• The BASC program (Business Anti-Smuggling Coalition) presents a new opportunity for this committee.

• The leadership for BASC is the World Trade Center.
• 500 area businesses, involved in international trade, will be identified for involvement.
• The businesses will have security checks provided to them to help them identify the methods used in smuggling activities.
• They will be helped to set up a drug-free workplace here, and they will then establish a similar drug free workplace program with those companies in other countries with whom they trade.
• Additional volunteers will be needed to help with the BASC program.