Eligible businesses can receive up to $5,000 worth of free drug testing for their employees through a program sponsored by the Edwardsville/Glen Carbon Chamber of Commerce. The Drug-Free Illinois Workplace Program is designed to assist small to medium sized businesses with the cost of drug testing, a necessary and often costly component of safety in the workplace.

To be eligible for this program, a business should meet the following criteria:

• Be a member of the Edwardsville/Glen Carbon Chamber of Commerce and/or the Illinois State Chamber

• Be located in the state of Illinois

• Employ 500 or less full time employees in the local community

• Have an existing drug-free workplace policy in place or be in the process of creating one

• Not currently conducting the type of drug testing for which funding is requested, i.e., a business may currently do pre-employment drug testing, but now wants to conduct random drug testing

• Not mandated by an agency of the state or federal government to conduct drug testing.

Funding for this program is provided by the Illinois Department of Human Service’s Division of Community Health and Prevention and the Illinois Department of HumanServices Division of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse. The Illinois State Chamber of Commerce is the coordinating agency for the program’s statewide efforts.

The Illinois Chamber’s Drug-Free Illinois Workplace Program (DFIWP) has received national recognition in Washington DC and our experts are sought after speakers at a number of events in Washington DC as well as throughout the state and the country.

It is comprised of government, local chambers of commerce, employers, employees and law enforcement working together to promote awareness, to provide assistance and to produce a action in addressing the devastating affects of alcoholism and substance abuse in the workplace!

Call Julie Brennan at 217.522.5512, ext. 226 to find out more.