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Contingency management (CM) is a highly effective, evidence-based therapy used to treat substance use disorders (SUDs). Using operant conditioning and positive reinforcement, rehabilitation experts use CM to motivate abstinence or treatment adherence through a system of rewards and consequences.

In 2022, the psychiatric department of UC San Francisco reached out to the SPROKIT team to develop a CM technology because of our expertise in gamification and data gathering.

The resulting collaboration resulted in SPROKIT CM — an end-to-end solution for deploying contingency management with a mobile app.

Nearly a decade later, the state of policing has not improved. In fact, it is deteriorating. PTSD rates are 10 times higher than the general population, with retirement and resignation rates rising from 20-45%. Officer suicide outnumbers deaths in the line of duty, and re-staffing cannot meet current needs. Community distrust of law enforcement is higher than ever.

Law enforcement cannot bear the full blame when they have no effective means to implement the solution.

Until now. It's called BlueDelta: a 21st Century tool to build 21st Century Policing.

Though discipline is not BlueDelta's main function, it has the flexibility and power to deploy Restorative Discipline — an innovative response to law enforcement misconduct that transforms behavior through an Individual Action Plan tailored to an officer.

Restorative Discipline is not a replacement for progressive discipline, but an alternative avenue for resolving misconduct allegations early and efficiently while ensuring accountability, repairing harm in communities, rebuilding trust in law enforcement, and retaining a transformed officer in the department.

BlueDelta provides healthy guidance to the nexus between the individual officer, their department, and the community that is served.

Crime, mental illness, and drug addiction are overwhelming the criminal justice system and costing billions of tax dollars. Yet studies show that more arrests and incarceration actually increase crime.

Deflection is the solution. It moves people away from the criminal justice system and into social services. Studies show it tamps down crime, reduces drug use, unclogs the courts and jails, saves tax dollars, and makes communities safer — as long as it's done right.

Like any collaborative program, deflection fails despite its good intentions when the system that manages it is poorly organized.

Now there is a technology that manages deflection efficiently and successfully. BlueDelta+SPROKIT — the only systemic tech solution for deflection.

Bring compassion and better outcomes to clients, first responders, providers, and community that are intertwined by criminal justice, mental health and substance use disorders.