This Guide has provided you with tested strategies that can help you build and present an effective business case. The appendices that follow provide tools and references that will help you determine what's best for your situation.

In order for your integrated justice effort to succeed, you need the participation and support of a number of different people in your justice and political communities. An effective business case will help you build support and encourage participation. It will help you persuade lawmakers to fund your project, promote grassroots activity among justice professionals, and educate the public.

The business case you develop is an extension of your ideas, as well as those of the group that designed your initiative. The resources that go into your case-the time, the funding, the staff work, and the personal energy-reflect your dedication to a vision of integration. It's important to let that dedication show through every time you present the business case. If you believe in the vision and have done your homework, your audience will see your care, commitment, and enthusiasm, and be much more likely to understand and support your efforts.