 my name is Jerome Scriptunis. I am a chapter leader for TechSoup Connect. TechSoup is a non-profit that helps other non-profits get, implement, and use technology effectively. And TechSoup Connect is a global network of events for sharing ideas about technology for good. And I am very interested, curious, and energized to break new ground and bring new technology to TechSoup Connect. And I am very confident that I am leading the first session in the world through TechSoup Connect with our special guest today from all sober. I want to tell you one more thing about who I am and why I do what I do and why it motivated me to bring in all sober. I run an organization, a community non-profit called Youth Time Banking. It's a youth adult partnership for community service where youth earn time credits that they can exchange for school supplies and other interests and get help and coaching and stuff like that. And there's a graphic there on the screen that explains our model of community comm that is a way of organizing the projects that we do out in the community. Care projects help other people. Apps use technology for good. That's the connection in here with TechSoup Connect. Learn is literacy, community awareness, conferences, and sessions that you help with and make for community things we do with our getting our hands dirty and putting things together for others. The guest today is Rob Kelly. Rob is the business development director and board member with the All Sober Foundation. And he's going to introduce us to or take us a little bit farther along with what, first of all, why All Sober was launched this year. Tell us about the online platform and the mobile app and why it's incredibly beneficial. And it's particularly timely. And so I wish all of you a happy recovery month. And I put a post out to promote our session today and I said, let's just stretch that all year round. So Rob, thank you for being our guest speaker and representing all of the good work and the platform from All Sober. Tell us what we need to know. Thank you so much, Jerome. I want to thank everyone for coming to this discussion today. I want to wish everyone a happy recovery month. I also want to extend a big thank you to YTB, the use time banking team and to the Tech Soup Connect team for inviting me to this. Very excited to speak to you all. I know I've met a few of you at various conferences over the last year or so and hope to see you at other ones in the future. Very excited to introduce All Sober to you all. Some of you may already be familiar with us. Hopefully provide some new updates on where we are, where things stand and how you and your organization can get involved. I'll share my screen in just a minute and we'll walk through the platform and how to get more involved with All Sober, but would like to give you a bit of a background on how All Sober came to be. All Sober is a result of a family's difficulty navigating the recovery journey. They went through a very, our co-founders, Paul and Flora, had a very difficult time navigating the recovery journey, finding information for their loved one. And as many people can relate to, kept banging their heads against the where to find reliable, trustworthy information, it's a very overwhelming process, very emotionally draining. And there was no one central place to find trusted, verified, reliable information, no matter what stage of the journey you're on. So as a result of their difficulty with this journey, their loved one I'm happy to say is now been Sober for over five years, readily employed, happily living on the East Coast. They sat back and said, okay, what can we do to help this process? If we can make people's lives one person's life easier navigating this journey, we will have succeeded. Hopefully we can help a whole lot more than that. So I'll share my screen with you and share with you the All Sober platform as it is right now. It's constantly developing. We recently launched publicly in late spring of this year and are excited that we have 25,000 folks who registered profiles on our site and who are hopefully using it and finding it valuable and finding the information they need. Big picture, we want to provide all the resources you need all in one central platform. So I will share my screen quickly and show you the All Sober platform. Does everyone see it? Drums at all. All good on the sharing screen front. Good. I got a thumbs up. Thanks. Thank you so much. So this is where All Sober is right now. Again, happy recovery month to everyone. I know this is a very busy month for a lot of you. I want to thank you all for all you do in your respective communities and throughout the country and possibly the world. So one of founders, Poland, Florida, they mapped the recovery journey out into seven segments. We have help and information for those just finding out that they or loved one needs help and that all these new questions, new vocabulary words are being thrown at you, detox, inpatient, outpatient, dual diagnosis, and it can be quite overwhelming. So you'll find in our help and information section, you'll find a lot of the information you need to make informed decisions with the next stage of your recovery journey. A lot of the basic questions will be answered. Hopefully, again, we want to empower individuals to make their own decisions and not be beholden to whoever spent the most on Google AdWords that month. We also have some interactive features on our platform. I'll show you the help and information quickly. This is general information about harm reduction. What are opioids? Where to find help if you are in crisis? We have all of the emergency numbers right at the top of our platform. Within the groups section, you will find interactive group sessions where people are asking questions. We just have support groups, different types of meetings on the left here. And these are all monitored 24 seven. So we are there if I know no one. As you can see, some people are already interacting today on our platform. And in order to interact here, you do have to make a profile like you would on Facebook or any other social media platform. And all you need is an email address to make a profile. You don't need to provide any more information. We are very conscious about privacy in this very sensitive space. So we did again, monitored 24 seven to make sure that there's no melody for the wrong reasons, promoting wrong things and all that kind of stuff. We have a strict code of ethics on this platform and monitored very rigidly. We also have treatment and recovery finder, which we are building out. We have fine local treatment in your area. We're building out a fine counseling, fine meetings and fine sober housing. We're hoping to integrate the meeting guide app, the AA meeting guide, which is into our platforms. People can find local meetings near them, find treatment based on location, based on different criteria you might need to find types of treatment, types of insurance accepted, age, all these other criteria. We get a lot of our basic information from the SAM to database, but we have a much more robust filtering service where people can actually pick the types of treatment that is appropriate for them based on their needs again, and hopefully make informed decisions so you can find appropriate treatment and hopefully not go through the cycle of one treatment center, does the workout, next treatment center, hopefully a better chance of finding the right treatment for you right out of the gate. And importantly, what we have on our platform, it was trying to, as we said, connect from one stage of the recovery journey to the next. So after treatment, we want to have resources, but okay, what do I do now? Where do I go from here? And we have a whole relaunch section where you can hopefully find jobs and career advice. Our goal was to build out some sort of equivalent of indeed, but for recovery friendly workplaces. We also have, I'll just go to it so we can walk through it, more information about what type of lifestyle you're trying to lead health and wellness information, finding hopefully sober bands, sober book clubs, the way of remaining that connection, the support groups, the continuum of care, beyond treatment. And we're hoping that this can also be a helpful for treatment centers find as part of the discharge process, help the patients get off on the right foot right out of the gate. And similar trend, the lifestyle. We also have information on health and wellness. We are a good friend, Charlie Engel is an ultra who's in celebrating his 30th year of sobriety this year has helped us create a video on how to start a running routine. This year's ultra marathon runner, who just celebrated 30 years of sobriety by running for 30 straight hours, which is one of the most amazing things I've ever witnessed. And lots of other information about diet, nutrition, and spirituality, whatever we know, this million roads to recovery, we want as much information on here as possible, again, people to make informed decisions that best fits their lifestyle. And lastly, inspiration, we want to share stories, we do this a lot of anyone follows us on social media, you'll see us, we celebrate sober, sober anniversaries, we want to have inspiring stories by artists or musicians, but also, just for everyday folks who want to share their story, and remain inspired. So we want, ultimately, no matter what stage of the journey you're in, just finding out you need help or loved one needs help, or you've been sober for 30 years that are just finding, looking for some inspiring stories, we want to have something for you no matter what stage of that journey you are in. And by bringing it into one central platform, we're hopefully simplifying that journey to millions of people impacted by substance use issues, addiction issues throughout the country. So that's a quite a large platform that I've tried to condense to just a few minutes. So I'll take a break, if there's any questions that may have popped up, I would be happy to answer some, I would definitely encourage folks to create a profile, interact with the groups. And lastly, you are able to create a organization page, just like you would a Facebook page, your nonprofit, your corporation or university. And we want to promote that on our site. And our process of creating those pages is getting updated as we iron out the first few months of launching. So I am happy to provide a bit more information to anyone that may be interested in creating their own university page, their nonprofit page and how to go about that. We're just ironing out a few of the details on the tech end and if anyone's having any tech issues with the platform, I would appreciate feedback so we can pass it to the development team, but appreciate everyone's patience as we so recently launched, we're still ironing out a couple of the things there, but I'll stop and take a quick breath and we'll be happy to answer any questions. I'm going to keep my screen up here, but if anyone has any questions, I'm not sure. Valerie might be on Jerome in charge of monitoring the chat box. Yeah, Valerie, could you kind of step us through some of the questions that came up to see if we. Is there a two organizations that profiles on a silver? Yes, they can create their own profiles. So I'm logged in right now. So the button is out because it knows I've already created one. But if I logged out, there's an opportunity to create a create your own organization page by clicking sign up here. And there's a little create click here to create a business organization page. And as I said, that's that process is getting ironed out right now. So if there's any technical glitches, I will, I will, I would like, we tried to use simple find that process because right now I think some folks are having some technical difficulties with it. So we're just trying to create that, create, iron that out, and I'll definitely follow up with anyone. Actually, if I'm still sharing my screen, this is what it will look like creating an organization page here. And you can select some kind of category that you fall into arts, entertainment, business, personal counseling, sober living universities and schools. And we'll have a whole partner page where people can find information about each of these categories within their community. And we're hopefully having a function where you can search within them or universities near me, universities that have amazing collegiate recovery programs of which there are many throughout the country. And we're hoping to that is an important fact of so many people that they can find schools and universities that have adequate resources for them. We know the amazing work that universities and recovery high schools are doing and we're hoping to highlight them and hopefully shine a light on the amazing work that they are doing in their respective universities and communities. It's great stuff. Thank you. And is there a centralized crisis line? I saw an article you had in there for like suicide hotline. Is there one specific for? Sure. So let me log back in. And I at the very top where I will say find help now. There will be all of the immediate, okay, crisis numbers. If anyone in crisis immediately, we'll have the 911 suit hotline, the SAMHSA numbers veterans crisis lines, the fine treatment portal we have, it'll give you all the information you need to contact a treatment center. But if you need immediate medical care, these are the numbers that you would call. I'm trying to make it a different color as it stands out. And that is the most urgent situations. And we're proud to say that actually, as a result of the platform, this is an amazing story that gets us all a bit choked up. So in a moment of crisis, used also to find treatment immediately and saved this person's friend's life, which always gets us a bit emotional that we're very proud of that. It's all been worthwhile. And we just helped someone get the help they needed at a time of crisis. But we're hoping that we can replicate this and get help to as many people as possible. Okay. Thank you for that. And then how do you verify that there are real people signing up with a profile? We need to make it a profile. I said, all you need is an email address. So making a profile itself is, anyone could theoretically do it, but we have very, which as we said, we're monitored 24 seven by me at 30 different moderators at any time. So anything posted will be seen my own moderators at any time to verify. We got, if someone is posting things that are positive, we can't necessarily verify exactly who that person is, but we have, we monitor the content to make sure that they're comfortable just being posted. But just like any other social media site, we make, we're making the data as secure as possible. We don't want any information shared on the platform, but you're able to make a username that can either tell you have your name on it, or it can be a name like mine's my initials, but I, the actual information is moderated very closely 24 seven by a third party moderation company. I know there was a mention of a nine eight eight. Is that considered Jerome is nine eight eight a nonprofit? Because there's a question here from Alex asking, is there a cost for profiles and university pages? So there are options to create your own page free of charge to create an organization page, but there are opportunities to promote them within the site. Like you would want to have the social media platform on a Facebook or whatever it might be, but just to create your own organization page, there is no cost, but to promote it in any way within the platform that they're typical kind of like you would boost a Facebook profile, whatever it might be, would be similar concept, but the actual page itself is a simple page creation like you would on any other social media website. Sorry, one last question. And it's, it's, I have the app up on my phone. If you can see that someone's having trouble signing in with some app issue, I'm going to write sort of this issue. Sadly, Jerome had something on his app as well. Again, I just appreciate everyone's patience as we iron out some of the tech typicalities. I'm not the, the dev guy, but I'll be on the phone shortly. We're having issues with the app. That's, that having it on the app is as important as having the online profile as you guys can test to, we need to make sure. Right, if you're concerned, cause that's such, yeah, I have it working on an iPad. It seems fine. A web browser seems fine. It was a little bit hanging a bit on a cell phone, but I'll, I'll try that again later. And I apologize, Jerome, because there was one question. So yeah, yeah, sure. And thank you, Adina, because you've had some great questions in here. How were you able to drum up interest in this resource? So far, we've had pretty limited marketing budget, I would say, but we, all we have been doing is getting involved with as many conferences as we can. So get our name out there, get involved with the issue, meet treatment centers, meet universities. We attended the collegiate recovery conference enrichment this past summer. We also have been to all of the, the East coast symposium, the Bolton Baltimore and Cape Card throughout the country. So we're trying to get involved at the ground level with the organizations that we hope will populate our site with their resources that people can find more readily and really kind of get amongst the issue and show that we are a new platform. It's here to stay. We know there's civil organizations come and go in this space and with, we want to make sure we are seen as a reputable source that verifies information so that people do trust us when they come to us that will take time that will take us working with partners who are established in the space getting on board and sharing their, putting their resources on here. Again, it's, we just want to be the kind of central hub of information for individuals. We are not providing services necessarily. We just want to be the kind of concentrator of information. So if you, so individuals or families can navigate this journey and feel more empowered in their decision making process. I think someone has their hand up. Mitzi, do you want to speak your question? Yes. Am I unmuted? You are. Okay. And I just want to say something to the group. So I'm at a university and we actually have a profile already made up and I can get to it on the laptop. But listen, I am 66 years old and I just keep having trouble with that. And I do want to say that I sent an email earlier sometime. I can't remember when exactly. And someone did get back with me, but I was too overwhelmed with some other things to be able to, so they did respond. I just want everybody to know that that also were responded and then I had trouble. But I'm on, I've got the app on my Android and the first thing that comes up is sign up or log in. And I can log in on my desktop computer. Fine. But when I hit log in, then it starts doing some little bubbles up and sign up like I'm not signed up yet. And so I try sign up and then it doesn't let me do anything. So I'm just. Yeah, we can chat. I'll be happy to try and give it to Mike. It very possibly could be a technical issue that we need to get ironed out on our end, but I definitely like to see exactly what is coming up. So I can share it with our team because if you are having an issue, you probably aren't the only one having an issue. So I apologize if that's not, if that's not coming up. And again, and thank you for everything you've done on it to create a page and all that kind of stuff. We appreciate your continued support. But I would be happy to chat with you of exactly what is coming up. We can hopefully iron that out. So I apologize for any glitches. Thanks. Yeah, can I just do a assist, Rob? If someone needs a follow up offline, if you wish to either put in a direct message to me or Rob or put something in, I'll have the chat saved at the end. And that will be a way of tracking who had a question that's best handled offline. Yeah. And I'm happy to share my email available in one step to shoot me an email afterwards. And we can, we'll walk through any little obstacles that you may be, that you may be encountering. Yeah. And besides, it makes me feel fantastic because that's what TechSoup connects is for, is to show kindness and respect to people who want to make better use of technology in their community or work at the colleges or universities or libraries. I don't know if we have anybody joined with us today who works at a library, but that's of course a tremendous community resource for safely asking questions I had one I'm going to squeeze it if I can. And then I see there's one or two other ones. So if I want to be more knowledgeable and bring myself up to speed with how I can be useful if I know some people who are in recovery, can you point out to me, Rob, what would be some of the areas on the platform for someone who wants to be on the support team or encourage someone in recovery? Because when I was going through my profile, it had you select different topics or areas or something, but none of them seemed like it was what I was looking for. And then I tried to write one in and then it bounced me out, but then I got back in again and it was working. Okay, definitely for anyone who wants to be supportive. And so I would say the first kind of half of the journey is the more acute care finding the medical treatment you need. But there's in the group section, there is ability to share anecdotal stories, what work, supportive messaging, the community section again is a is where a lot of interaction with people might be and the relaunch lifestyle inspiration section, I would say is the kind of post acute care recovery lifestyle section of the platform. So the most interactive supportive sections as opposed to acute care would probably be the groups and then community onwards. Whereas the treatment recovery, help and information is more helping you like become more medical decision making processes for you or your loved one. Valerie, let's go back to Kimberly's question, please. That's not Jen. Are there subgroups, interest groups within the community board? For example, youth groups, athletes in recovery, etc. And so is there a voucher process to join subgroups? So we certainly, again, we are welcoming any path to recovery. So those all those groups, we'd love to get more involved with them. While there may not be a specific subgroup, apparently we can continually building those out and adding and more groups, we know there's an infinite things to add to the platform. Eventually we just have the base shell of it now and we try building it out continually. This, I would say this platform will never be finished because we're always going to be new groups and new pathways to recovery, new breakthroughs and addiction recovery medicine or whatever it might be. So we'll continually building it out. So we welcome any at all roads to recovery and we want as many groups as possible featured and profiled on the site for sure. And one just came in from Danielle. Can you Valerie, we need your audio on your mic? I'm conscious I've got kids in the house, so that's why I keep muting myself at the dog. All right. Hello from Danielle. I currently work for university and help from their collegiate recovery community. I was wondering if there are any marketing materials readily available I can provide for my students? Certainly. Yeah, we would, I would be happy, so about all sober specifically, I would be happy to send either we have something PDFs available, we will work beyond some more marketing materials just to get them. We would love this to be prominently used at the university level for students looking for the services that you provide. So I'd be happy to provide that with you. Either you can share your email with me or I can, anyone who's on the invite list for this meeting, I can share everything we have specifically tailored towards the universities and also at a wider lens as well. Be happy to provide that. Thank you. I think that's it for now. Yeah, I'm just putting a note in there of someone would like to raise their hand and come off mic and we've got a manageable size in our group that we can speak to Rob. So Rob, do you want to, is there a different way to talk about the app versus the, the web access or the online or should the, we've developed both and they should be working parallel with each other. So if there are issues on the app, I will have to definitely pass that up the chain to the development team, but I, they should work kind of hand in hand and used to be able to everything you should do on the platform should be working on the app. So I will reach that and reach out about that. And I appreciate again, the patience as we iron things out, we just hoping to get the water will sober out to as many folks like you guys as possible. So we appreciate the patience as we continue to build it out. And we're hoping that we can all work together to always make a big difference in, in, in the recovery journey. So in theory, they should work in hand and have all the same functionality. So I'll definitely follow up about the issues with the app. Oh, it's yeah, it's a great platform. Can you tell us a little bit more about the recovery high schools? My understanding from having read a little bit about them is that there's about 35 or so in the United States are, so is that a relatively new undertaking with recovery high schools? Are they, is there a growth plan? So I know they are. It's very interesting. I'm definitely not the authority specifically of Mike Dushlag is on the court. He is definitely the authority, but from what I, they are not brand new concepts, but they definitely were highlighted in the documentary that came out with Generation Found that came out a number of a few years ago, not all that long ago, that featured a recovery high school based in Houston, Texas. I think that really put it into the spotlight on the recovery high schools and what they're doing and the need, how important the need is for teens, for adolescents, young adults, teenagers in this space, and then the support services to help them make that jump into university as well and by and still have the same support services in the universities, which is why we think showcasing what universities are doing is so important, especially for those high school students who need that same level of support and continuum that continues. They are, I think it does depend that how they are funded is so different that based on the state, some are, some have a part of the public school system, some are non-profit organizations that are funded by other organizations and individuals helping fund a school, some are private schools. It just depends on the state or what the regulations are within that specific school system, but they do, they are continuing to open new ones. There are some states in which there are far more than others, but the need is the same no matter what state you're in. There's a number in Massachusetts and Texas and Minnesota and so they are continuing to grow, which is important that they, it's a continuing, a movement that's continuing to grow and the Association of Recovery Schools is working diligently to put standards in place so they can continue to grow at that same level. Yeah, I see that there's a lot of, what is it, sub-menus along the tabs and when I first started looking at the all sober side, it's a lot to absorb. Maybe if you could take us through again, like walk through the sub-tabs and if there's anything interesting to point out about how someone who's been using this for a while, people put videos on, I see they put pictures of their soberversaries. Just one last thing, you also have, you're on LinkedIn, you're on Twitter, you're on Instagram. Is that, are those links represented along the footer of the site or something like that? Yeah, down here, down there. Okay, a lot of pages. Okay, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. And yeah, thanks, people who agreed to follow us and find out what we're doing and all the amazing sobering, all the streets we're celebrating as we, and we, in Recovery Month, we've been doing some amazing Facebook live events and discussions with industry experts and we love the feedback we're getting on all of that. So yeah, as you said, we can walk briefly through all the different tabs. So the journey is just all-encompassing what is also bad at 30,000 foot level and helping information. Again, this will be continued to build out because there's so much help and information out there. And so we wanted to answer the questions that right out of the gate, you're just finding out you're a loved one needs help and all this new vocabulary is being thrown at you, as we discussed earlier. And it's very overwhelming. And so we have basic information about what is addiction, performing folks that this is a disease and not overcoming the stigma that people may be feeling or facing at the beginning of the journey, the medical side of addiction and what is happening. And that can be a big barrier for a lot of folks asking for help, looking for help, is that the de-stigmatization of addiction is very real. And it's something that we are hoping to overcome by all, everyone coming to our platform and speaking in a unified voice about the support services that are out there. Hopefully we make a dent in that de-stigmatization process. So within here, you'll find information about, let's say harm reduction, for example, or what I hope you always dual diagnosis, there's been no mental health and substance use are often a dual diagnosis and they need to be treated separately, they're not one and the same. So all these different questions and you'll find if someone is diagnosed with dual diagnosis, there's specific treatment centers that focus on that, some that specialize from one or the other and understanding those big questions before searching for treatment and you go in equipped with a more comprehensive understanding of what exactly you or your loved one needs to be, needs to know going into that process. So this is constantly getting updated with whether it's new breakthroughs or new articles that are being released and new information that's out there. So here's where we want folks to go to find kind of general information and questions to ask themselves before making any big decisions with regard to their treatment or just informing themselves about the recovery journey. So that's what we look more in trending news, once he was more what's trending here or some of our Facebook live conversations with industry experts that these are constantly updated, it's not this should be updated once a week or so, I'm not exactly sure how often we update it, but our content team is constantly putting up new articles and new videos and new content on this section. So we have the groups section and it's loading. Right. Yep. Yeah, here we go. The different types of groups that you can join and that if you click on any of these, you'll find questions being answered. So here we are on that life and recovery, which one of the groups that I have joined questions that are being answered by our team industry experts and then the moderators are keeping an eye out for any inappropriate activity going on. It was as well as you said earlier about what happened. I'd be supportive. There are people here who maybe in times of crisis are asking questions. We want to be here answering as many questions as we can and showing that continued support throughout their recovery journey. Yeah. Valerie, can we let's go to one of the questions here. I don't know. It might be related to what Rob is telling us about. Yes. First, I'm going to apologize for my bad smelling because that is that's a lot more reliable than searching. Thanks for sharing that. I see he has a question. I see an area that says might, so I also were interested. One option is in quotes, I'm looking for a sponsor. How does that work? That is that's in the profile. Is that right? That would be in the profile and there's we have a team of on the medical side who could speak to exactly how to get on it with a sponsor and that might be something we're continuing to build out. I'll have to get without the medical side because I'm without my medical background. I don't want to speak incorrectly about how that process goes, but there are multiple areas that are being built out simultaneously. So I can definitely get back to you on that one. Yeah. And on that, we're in the profile where the part is my also bar interest, choose my also bar interest and it has suggested interest. So can you enter something that's not represented there? I think we've started with a number and then we'll continue to add them. I think that is like having a tag or something like that in other social media platforms, but those will continue. I think we have some that we have created and ultimately we're going to have folks who can start their own groups within the platform. But these are the ones we're starting with just to see how people are interacting and then build out other ones that they have suggested groups they can stop themselves. So that's what I had a little bit of confusion on is the my all sober interest. Does that map to a group or what does that do? So that should probably alert you of any sort of obstacles that come out that are related to the interests you have that you have selected or any groups that maybe reflected something about sober housing and there's a discussion going on in the sober housing group that you'll probably get more notifications about what's happening in a specific space. Sure. Okay. Is there a section on language and terms because I've come across different definitions in terms that people use to talk about their condition, their experience, and in terms of breaking down stigma, the words that are used of course are very important in every field. Is there anything on the all sober platform that offers suggestions on how to refer to things, how to talk about it? I know that is, as you say, language is very important in the space, especially with the desigmatization. We had an article that kind of links to it referred to as the a dictionary, which is preferred terms and more humanizing language for individuals. I think this journey so it would likely be within one of our articles about the correct kind of preferred language. People are human and may just say stuff out, but I think it's a way of hopefully encouraging folks to speak with that more humanizing language about this and treating it like the disease that it is as opposed to some sort of something to be ashamed of or some moral issue that folks that has been prevalent in this space or in the world. So we're trying to definitely break that down and that will likely be in our health and information section. Yeah. I just did a quick search there. I came up with something called the a dictionary or something like that. It should be. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So that's all right. Yeah. And so maybe just continue through those other thoughts. Yeah. So happy to. Yeah. The treatment and recovery. I'll just give you a quick demonstration of the fine treatment portal. So let's just say I'd like to put in within 25 miles, my zip code when I live out in Seattle, Washington, I haven't put any of the, these are all the different searches that fit my criteria and I can make my criteria more and more specified to exactly what I need, whether it's detox, outpatient, residential, payment options, age, adults, special programs, those are veterans or whatever it might be. If it has a MAT facility, medication assisted treatment, so all these other different treatment approaches. So I can make this as specified as I would like and so just filter by exactly my criteria and there is no, there's no way someone will show up on this search result. They don't fit my criteria, which has been an issue with treatment finders in the past. If you don't fit the criteria, you will show up in our search results. So that is how we distinguish ourselves. In addition to the other filters you can put in, you will not show up if you don't fit the criteria that individual has put into our finder. So that is how it works and we do have a little bit of more information and questions to ask before choosing a treatment center to help make you make informed decisions and might help select some of these filters, which can look a bit clinical and you may not fully have a grasp of what these different all this means. So we want to again equip individuals with as much information as possible. And our goal was to build out a similar fine treatment with fine counseling and fine sober housing. There are various difficulties that come along with sober housing as there isn't as much accreditation currently as there is for treatment centers with sober living. So we're working with professionals in that space to come up with a way of creating the fine counseling and fine sober housing or whatever it might all the other fine meetings to find all those different avenues because those are just as the counseling continued counseling. This is also extremely important during and post treatment. Does all sober have relationships with workplace like some companies have EAP programs, employee assistance? We actually are in the process of building that out and we've been talking to a number of companies about creating work recovery friendly workplaces similar with employee assistance programs. We actually are right in the middle of a number of conversations about that. So that's very timely that you ask that question that's something we are continuing to build out with our kind of the VP of our addiction Maeve who's featured on a lot of our videos is currently working on and we're working with companies and all the different clinical experts to make sure we are building that out very comprehensively. We don't want to get out the gates too early without having very robust platforms that we are building that out currently. Yes, to ask you a question just that's the process of building that. That's great to hear. Do you does all sober have like a teen advisory or college advisors to shape and direct the way the information is presented for different population groups? We don't have anyone specifically who will be working with the students themselves. We're hoping that students and parents can come to the site to find all that information they need to find the universities that have adequate recovery support services. We're hoping that this will encourage schools that may not to invest in that within their school system. So we are we're hoping to raise the tide of university recovery supports because there are so many universities doing amazing things we want that to become the standard across the board of supporting students in that part of their journey. So that some we don't have specific kind of college counselors within all sober. We're hoping that we can provide the resources folks need again to make informed decisions. Yeah, I want to again encourage anyone who's on our session right now if they would like to relate what Rob is telling us to your work or or if you have had experience using all sober or what thoughts or feedback you might have. Does anyone want to take this opportunity now to either ask a question or offer any comments based on I know that the people who had registered several of them and perhaps those are on the session with us right now had significant experience working in recovery whether it was in a community organization or a university or college anyone want to add their perspective or share how they find the all sober platform useful and in the meantime we could continue to work our way towards the remaining tabs here we like I said we have about 10 more minutes and to walk through that the remaining few if anyone else would like to jump in I don't know I know there's people in me to the mix sometimes take a second to either post or get off mute happy to hear anyone else's initial responses yeah so let's let's just what's the relaunch that would that's a new term to me just as a so this community section any page that you just go like the equivalent of a Facebook feed so updates but all the groups that I follow like forest university for example with my alma mater and all that so it's anything you like or follow will show up here as they post things this will be a kind of a constantly yeah like a Facebook feed so relaunch I really hope for what we envision the phrase we've used to relaunch yourself back into society with adequate support services you need so as you can see we have information about navigating job interviews or hopefully it's it with this is actually a good friend of mine Tommy who talks about how supportive how he he was nervous to tell his employer that he'd help and they were incredibly supportive and hopefully that can be a role model of what other organizations can do to support their employees and he was that stigma was very much existed but he was blown away with the support he got so that's a story of it's all it's all about all the companies don't understand it some really do understand and we want to highlight places like that that are really supportive of their employees and their families but here just tips to maybe get to bridge that gap to the next step of succeeding in your next job or if you're going to university or whatever it might be to help you feel supported and equipped information to guide you to that next stage of your journey so relaunch for us is getting staying on your getting on your feet and staying on your feet and then post treatment phase which is that critical period after after treatment right and then the lifestyle is again one of the things we hear all the time is post treatment I'm not going to be able to have any fun I'm not going to be it like I have to lose all my friends and x y and z and we want here to be examples of what you can do in recovery to still have a fun fun lifestyle whether it's through health and wellness or music this kind of ties together with inspiration as well to be inspired by music artwork sports we talked about someone that asks for athletes in recovery we want this to be on there as well and all of that helps break down that that stigma that still exists but more people talking openly about what they're doing and maintaining a fun fun recovery lifestyle that will be all part of these two sections of lifestyle and inspiration and then partners is the final one with all the different groups we talked about that we're building out recovery community organizations university schools arts or businesses all that kind of stuff will be followed on the partners section where your organizations can create their own pages and be featured on the black hole one of the things I noticed as you were going through is that each section has an interior search is that right and you also have the search at the very top of the page so is that so if you click on say lifestyle or relaunch okay so if you would please click on that or one of those tabs go lifestyle for example okay so sober lifestyle and there's a search area there and is my assumption correct that is directing the search just within that section whereas if you went all the way up to the top that would be across the whole site is that correct that's correct and this will be specific to sober lifestyle and this will be for the whole platform so this will be I think within the journey but this will be specific to things you can find within this specific lifestyle section okay and then just a couple more feature just a review of the features I see the notifications bell that's if what if someone commented on it or there's a comment if I posted something and someone likes it or comment anything like that all kind of notifications like you would get on any other social media website yeah all right and I'm going back down to the bottom maybe just a quick review of the links at the bottom of the site give some of the history in the about and what I put in the the announcement for this session I think it was the alsober.com forward slash newsletter is that do I have that I believe that is still the right correct form but I'll double check if it does something else I can I'll send it out but that's the latest one I saw and I just because I found that nope that was not the right one but I found that useful in helping me to understand I guess it's like the about but it had the let me just pull up the announcement for today and that was yeah also but dot com of that any slash is probably the easiest way just to get information without the slash newsletters probably oh it was newsroom that was it so let me just put yeah and that's so I'm gonna bear aside that yeah so that's okay so I guess that comes from the about I found that helpful for me to get a little bit of the history can you just put that one up as we got about five more minutes and if go the about yeah the about and yeah the journey of of also how we were yeah and there's some powerful data in their statistics the 192 million americans 59 of the population that's startling certainly is yeah it's that's how many I mean as I impacted either directly or through a loved one or a friend is over half the population so this is an issue that's continuing to affect so many people so we know that this is information that so many people need and hopefully find value in the platform you're building and then if you would click on what was the newsroom one is that what you mentioned yeah the content where it was that one of the it's info dot all sober dot com slash content I'm just gonna because that's an interesting area what that's oh that's the contributors sound not sure which one you're looking yeah I just put it in the chat if you go all the way down to the bottom I think and it's the contributors I think that's what I did oh yeah yeah yeah that's yeah it's a it folks want to get involved with the with us how they can contribute to us we have guidelines and all that kind of stuff here about how to get involved show your story whatever it might be this is how this is the information about how to get more involved yeah okay everyone we have just two or three more minutes before we we do our countdown to goodbye does would anyone like to let's see I had the our little hole up there so how about we let me see if I could pull it up again and go ahead I do have a question what is the current ask then for collegiate recovery programs and universities at this stage is the ask to share out with our students and create a page for our services what is the next step for the college partners sure thank you so much for our but we yeah we could create a page like you would a facebook page we hope to continue to post whatever you're doing on campus to promote what the CRP or CRC is doing we don't have asked a lot in terms of anything back to us we want this to be a way of promoting what you guys are doing on campus and if students at your school will make a profile and follow you they'll get a constant update of what's going on within your school your collegiate recovery program there are ways of if you wanted to promote what you're doing on the website that's a discussion we can continue to have but just to make a page is the first step in building that presence on our platform and we would just ask hopefully that students find it the platform helpful more than just looking at your university page hope that there's resources in there that help them on their personal journey or that of a loved one but just following you on there will keep them up to speed on what's going on on your campus yeah so we're at the goodbye point and Valerie put in the poll so this is maybe a nice way that we could I'm going to do take the screen share and let's see if I go to screen one if you would like to say thank you to Rob this is one of our TechSoup connect and youth time banking bring us back to let's see I have to activate this right it is activated and I'm going to put in a thank you there okay so if you would like to say anything nice to Rob I am making a copy of the chat and those of you who asked for some follow up for Rob to check or advise on how to get something working whether it was on your mobile app I'm going to put in super because that's one of my favorite words there okay so I got my super so if you put in the same word over and over again it will make that bigger and bigger so I'm going to put in super and see if I can get that yep I got it bigger so we're having some fun with this we are going to do our countdown now to say good afternoon and good evening to everyone so Valerie please help me and thank you Rob Kelly thank you all sober for this unprecedented event here for TechSoup connect 10 9 8 4 3 2 I'm going to put super in one more time okay thank you Rob I'll follow up with you offline really appreciate you spending this hour with us thanks so much I appreciate you inviting me yep bye everybody