For reentry programs
A program standing beside a woman coming home runs on paperwork: identification, benefits, housing, health coverage, credentials, a first paycheck. Each step is logged once, where the work happens, and every completed step becomes the evidence a funder asks the program to prove. She tells her story once, not five times.
Built by a social worker who did this work on the floor, then built the systems he wished he had.
How the workflow engine works
Capture once. Staff log each reentry step (state ID, benefits, housing, health coverage, employment forms) one time, in the place the work already happens.
Track every handoff. Each step between pre-release, health navigation and job training has one owner and one due date. A stalled step surfaces before a missed appointment or a lost job offer.
Prove it to funders. Every number in a grant report traces back to completed client steps, so a program officer gets a same-day answer. Staff review and approve every draft.
Operating ground rules
Software drafts and organizes; program staff review and approve every output. The record is built inside the program's own workspace and is never pooled outside it. It tracks administrative reentry steps and prepares no court filings; where a matter needs legal judgment, it goes to a supervising attorney. Start small: one program track and one funder report for 90 days, then decide.
Who builds it Eric Brakebill Jones, MSW. Founder of Recovery Compass, a 501(c)(3), and Compass Outlaw. Lead author of Environmental Response Design: change the administrative environment around a person instead of asking willpower to beat system friction alone. Former Senior Case Manager in Los Angeles; MSW practicum at Amity Foundation; a decade in enterprise software before that.
Next step
eric@recovery-compass.org | eric@compass-outlaw.org