SBIR Phase I: Reducing Recidivism Through Technology: Connecting People Released from Incarceration to Resources and Communities in the 21st Century

该SBIR第一阶段项目建议使用开发的软件系统，通过教育培训和支持系统引起积极的行为改变，以减少累犯。美国是世界上监禁率最高的国家，每年有数十万人从监狱和监狱获释，累犯率高达每两个获释的人中就有一个在三年内重新入狱。累犯率影响每个州的矫正成本和纳税人，从高等教育，交通和医疗保健等项目中转移国家资金，同时减少生产工人的税基，增加对社会服务的需求，并影响公共安全。就人力成本而言，重新监禁是累犯的个人损失，是对人类潜力的浪费，对家庭、社区和社区产生负面影响。本项目是一个高风险、高回报的项目，具有广泛的社会影响。它有可能降低纳税人的矫正成本，改善以前被监禁的人及其家人的生活，增加生产和纳税个人的数量，减少对社会服务的需求，并支持社区，社区，该项目提供了一个教育平台，专门为97%的被监禁者的需要而设计，从监禁中释放出来，试图重新进入社会，而机构或社会的支持很少。注册用户将可以访问一个用户友好的网站，重新入学相关的课程和内容适当地提供个性化的基础上，并访问一个深入的课程，为用户提供必要的技术技能，浏览网站及其软件。该项目以教育理论为基础，将利用趋势教育工作，如开发基于能力的学习模型和创建可定制的教育体验，以开发和提供以重新入学为重点的课程，以个人为基础接触孤立的学习者，为特定受众创建虚拟生态系统，并通过各种机制收集反馈。有效性将通过使用各种累犯指标跟踪注册用户从监禁中释放后的成功情况来衡量。该项目将在地方一级进行测试，然后扩大规模，以满足全国对改善监禁后重新进入社会的个人的行为结果的需要。

This SBIR Phase I project proposes to reduce recidivism using a software system developed to elicit positive behavioral changes through an educational training and support system. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with hundreds of thousands of people annually released from prison and jail and recidivism rates as high as one out of every two people released returning to incarceration within three years. The rate of recidivism impacts the cost of corrections and taxpayers in every state, diverting state dollars from programs such as higher education, transportation, and health care, while decreasing the tax base of productive workers, increasing the need for social services, and impacting public safety. In terms of human costs, re-incarceration is a personal loss for the recidivist, a waste of human potential, and a negative impact on families, neighborhoods, and communities. This project is a high-risk high-return proposal with broad society impact. It has the potential to decrease the cost of corrections for taxpayers, improve the lives of formerly incarcerated people and their families, increase the number of productive and tax-paying individuals, decrease demand on social services, and support neighborhoods, communities, and society as a whole.This project provides an educational platform specifically designed for the needs of the 97 percent of incarcerated individuals who are subsequently released from incarceration and attempting to re-enter society with minimal support from institutions or society. Registered users will have access to a user-friendly website, re-entry related curriculum and content appropriately delivered on an individualized basis, and access to an in-reach curriculum that provides users with the technological skills necessary to navigate the website and its software. Grounded in educational theory, this project will utilize trending educational efforts such as developing competency-based learning models and creating customizable educational experiences in order to develop and deliver its re-entry focused curriculum, reach isolated learners on a personal basis, create a virtual ecosystem for its specific audience, and collect feedback through a variety of mechanisms. Efficacy will be measured by tracking registered users' success upon release from incarceration using a variety of recidivism metrics. The project will be tested at the local level and then scaled to meet the national need for improved behavioral outcomes from the population of individuals re-entering society following incarceration.