SBIR Phase II: Digital rehabilitation platform for higher education, mental health, and workforce readiness

SBIR 第二阶段：用于高等教育、心理健康和劳动力准备的数字康复平台

• 批准号: 1951264
• 负责人: Noah Freedman
• 金额: $ 75万
• 依托单位: Nucleos Incorporated
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-10-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1951264&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Digital; rehabilitation

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will deliver safe and secure learning, vocational training, and re-entry solutions to America’s 2.2 million incarcerated people and 70 million people with criminal records in order to ensure they have the skills and confidence needed to re-enter the workforce. Ensuring these marginalized and underrepresented populations has access to robust education and rehabilitation opportunities is critical for American public safety, stable communities, and workforce development. Recent studies have concluded that every $1 spent on corrections education programs can yield $4-$5 in savings to the state. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project seeks to increase the capability of online/offline application integration platforms which are customized for incarcerated or formerly incarcerated individuals, including: application integrations, security filtering, aggregated learner record keeping, usage tracking, message-logging, and workforce opportunity matching. The ability to deliver content in offline and online environments offers a technical advance in the learning technology platforms available on the market. Additionally, the platform is tackling the difficult issues of ingesting a wide range of learning data from multiple applications and processing this data to determine student performance and aptitude to align capabilities and interests with workforce opportunities. This allows Nucleos to more easily integrate third-party applications, provide a greater range of e-learning opportunities for incarcerated learners at facilities with a wide variation in security restrictions, and promote better learning outcomes.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个小企业创新研究(SBIR)第二阶段项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力将为美国220万被监禁者和7000万有犯罪记录的人提供安全可靠的学习、职业培训和重返社会的解决方案，以确保他们拥有重新进入劳动力大军所需的技能和信心。确保这些被边缘化和代表性不足的人口能够获得良好的教育和康复机会，对于美国的公共安全、稳定的社区和劳动力发展至关重要。最近的研究得出结论，在惩教教育项目上每花费1美元，就可以为国家节省4-5美元。该小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第二阶段项目旨在提高线上/线下应用程序集成平台的能力，这些应用程序集成平台是为被监禁或以前被监禁的个人定制的，包括：应用程序集成、安全过滤、聚合学员记录保存、使用跟踪、消息记录和劳动力机会匹配。在线下和在线环境中提供内容的能力为市场上现有的学习技术平台提供了技术上的进步。此外，该平台正在解决从多个应用程序获取广泛的学习数据并处理这些数据以确定学生的表现和能力和兴趣与劳动力机会相匹配的能力和能力的难题。这使得NSF能够更轻松地集成第三方应用程序，为安全限制差异很大的设施中的被监禁学习者提供更广泛的电子学习机会，并促进更好的学习结果。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。