over 10 years ago

Winner Announcement

Three winners were selected by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for its Technology-based Offender Reintegration Toolkit Challenge. SAMHSA launched the Challenge in June to help persons re-entering the community after being incarcerated.

The winning solutions:

The first place prize of $10,000 will go to Jason Cleaveland’s Obodo, an interactive membership website designed as a completely new way to build community around successfully reentering the community after a period of incarceration. It’s intended to be a complete ecosystem of support for formerly incarcerated people, their families, and the organizations that serve them. The platform provides each of these distinct populations with a unique set of tools to make their jobs and their lives better. Obodo will launch to the public in early September 2015.
The second place prize of $7,500 will go to Laura Bierbower’s Second Chance Resource Library, a website designed to look and behave like a library, providing resources and information for persons formerly incarcerated. When a user selects a topic from the bookshelf, a book appears and the user can scroll through to get the information, resources and links it provides.
The third place prize of $5,000 will go to Dylan Sander’s Right Path, a prototype website that provides resources and information for persons formerly incarcerated, and the people who help them (parole officers, community service staff, family and friends.)

SAMHSA congratulates all three prizewinners, and commends them and the other entrants for their dedication and commitment to individuals re-entering communities after leaving the criminal justice system.