Pride Integrated Services, Incorporated is a private, not for profit agency that was first incorporated in the State of Florida in 1970. Pride has been providing criminal justice alternatives continually since that time. Receiving fees only from client services provided, Pride relies on no outside financial assistance in any of its programs in Florida and Georgia. The following organizational history illustrates the growth and development of Pride.

• 1970: Pride Halfway House, Inc. is established as a private, not for profit agency to provide housing to felony men in lieu of continued incarceration.

• 1975: Pride opens a halfway house for felony women.

• 1975: The Florida Legislature withdraws the authority to operate misdemeanor and criminal traffic probation from the state, placing that authority in each judicial circuit. This piece of legislation opened the development of these programs to public and private entities.

• 1977: Pride opens its first probation office in Palm Beach County. Pride will later become the oldest, non-secular, private probation agency in the USA.

• 1978: The LEAA grants supporting the felony halfway houses ends.

• 1982: The authority to operate a Florida licensed Driving Under the Influence (DUI) program in Palm Beach County is transferred from the County government to Pride. This program provides comprehensive assessment, education and treatment referral services

• 1982: Pride develops the 16 hour curriculum for the Substance Abuse Awareness Program, providing a structured educational program for misdemeanor and multiple offense DUI offenders, referred by the Judiciary.

• 1984: At the request of the local Judiciary, Pride opens a probation office in Monroe County.

• 1984: Pride becomes one of the first private agencies in the United States to utilize electronic monitoring (in-house arrest) with the criminal justice population. The use of electronic technology continues to present.

• 1985: Pride opens probation offices in Volusia County

• 1986: Pride opens a Florida licensed DUI Program in Pasco County.

• 1986: Pride develops a misdemeanor probation program at the request of the Judiciary in Pasco County.

• 1989: Pride Integrated Video is developed. Pride's educational tapes and curriculums are utilized in the private sector, in intervention and treatment programs and in seventy percent of Federal Prisons.

• 1990: Pride develops a conditional release program for felony offenders who cannot bond out of jail. By maximizing the number of offenders eligible for this type of community supervision program, while preserving public safety, Pride saves the county an estimated $1.4 million dollars annually in jail bed days

• 1990: Pride develops the Track Programs, a continuum of seven outpatient, substance abuse treatment programs that have been completed by over 3000 criminal justice clients and replicated in three counties.

• 1990: Pride offers the Drug, Alcohol, Traffic Education Program for first time applicants for a Florida Driver License. Coordinating an average of 52 classes monthly, 13,443 individuals enroll in the program annually. Pride also begins to contribute approximately 25% of student enrollment fees to support the Palm Beach County School System and Palm Beach County Students Against Drunk Drivers. Contributions exceed $100,000 annually.

• 1991: Pride opens a probation office in Deland, Florida.

• 1991: Pride develops Track 5, an innovative treatment program that provides twelve months of daily programming for multiple offender DUI clients and cocaine addicts. It will later prove to be one of the first "drug court" programs in the USA.

• 1991: Pride becomes the only American agency invited to open a DUI Program in Great Britain

• 1992: Pride begins the active development of intermediate sanction programs to provide cognitive skills training to criminal justice offenders.

• 1993: Pride becomes the sole probation agency in Palm Beach County, saving the county approximately $1.2 million dollars in estimated cost to replicate Pride's services. Throughout Florida, Pride collects $700,000 per year in fines and fees and $600,000 per year in restitution. Pride's cost to the taxpayers is $0

• 1993: Pride officially changes its corporate name to Pride Integrated Services, Inc. - a private, not for profit agency.

• 1993: Pride becomes the sole provider of assessment services to the Substance Abuse Awareness Program, Palm Beach County's Drug Court.

• 1994: Development of Pride Multimedia Services, which uses computer technology to develop interactive educational programs for use with the criminal justice population as well as the general public.

• 1994: Supervision and coordination of the Domestic Assault Intervention Program (DAIP) in Palm Beach County is transferred from the County government to Pride under the authority of the State Attorney. As part of this program, Pride provides comprehensive, quality assurance monitoring of all service providers and coordinates client supervision for domestic abuse cases. By the end of the year, total number of active cases coordinated grows by 500%.

• 1995: In Pride's 25th Anniversary year, over ninety employees provide criminal justice and intermediate sanction programs throughout Florida. Pride has become a leader in innovations in the criminal justice field and a partner in privatization efforts to counties interested in the potential cost benefit of its programs.

• 1996: Pride Traffic Schools begin to offer driver improvement courses in addition to the first time driver courses. Over 14,000 students per year complete a course through the Traffic School Program.

• 1997: In a competitive bid process, Pride Integrated Services, Inc. is awarded the contract as the sole provider of probation services to the State Court of Chatham County, Georgia. By the end of the first year, this office is supervising 2,362 defendants, collects over $48,000 per month in fines, fees and restitution, and operates a totally computerized office.

• 1997: Pride implements a probation case management program in Chatham County, Georgia which results in an almost paperless office. This program is replicated in Monroe County, Florida and will be replicated in all Pride Probation offices. The database management system is considered to be "state of the art" in the field of probation services.

• 1998: Pride offices record over 120,000 clients contacts annually through all of its programs. Over 130 full and part time employees work in Pride programs.

• 1999: Pride initiates a program of computer automation of all offices and programs, utilizing specialized software to track DUI and Probation cases.

• 2000: Celebrating its 30th year of continuous operation, Pride has fully automated all offices and programs, using state of the art technology and case management software. Pride adopts the trademark: Supervising People, Not Cases and develops a new Mission Statement:As agents of change, we strive to enhance public safety and encourage our clients to embrace positive lifestyle decisions through a collaborative effort that includes the community, criminal justice system, and social service agencies.

• 2001: Pride enters into partnership with the Monroe County School District and is licensed by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to provide DUI and Special Supervision Services in Monroe County.