Enter a realistic scenario
Users step into situations that reflect real-world transitions and constraints.
“No one should have to make the decisions of a lifetime without ever getting to practice them.”
Practice real-world choices in branching scenarios before the stakes are real.
How it works
Users step into situations that reflect real-world transitions and constraints.
Each path presents practical choices around the systems and tradeoffs users encounter in daily life.
The branching structure lets users build judgment by experiencing how decisions change outcomes.
Who it serves
Support people navigating housing, work, supervision, and benefits after incarceration — the daily decision points that shape whether someone returns to custody or moves forward.
Help veterans practice decisions across civilian life, health, employment, and benefits.
Prepare young adults for first-time decisions around housing, finances, healthcare, and legal systems.
Support people navigating sobriety, stability, services, and daily decision pressure.
Help families and individuals prepare for unfamiliar legal and administrative systems.
Use decision practice anywhere complex life changes create expensive mistakes.
Built for access
English, Spanish, French, and Haitian Creole.
Phones, tablets, correctional tablets, shared computers, libraries, shelters, courts, and service centers.
Releases reflect real supervision rules, housing programs, employment laws, Medicaid status, and cost of living where applicable.
Scenarios are informed by practitioners and subject-matter expertise in the systems users have to navigate.
Frequently asked
Decision-making under pressure is one of the points where reentry succeeds or fails. Next Move™ lets people rehearse the high-stakes choices of reentry — housing, supervision, work, benefits — before the stakes are real. By building judgment in safe practice, the platform is designed to support stronger, more stable post-release decisions — our approach to helping reduce recidivism, one practiced decision at a time.
Next Move™ is a decision training platform for high-stakes life transitions. It uses interactive branching scenarios where every choice has consequences, helping people practice difficult decisions before the stakes are real. The first module serves reentry from incarceration and alternative-to-incarceration programs.
Next Move™ ships in four languages from day one: English, Spanish, French, and Haitian Creole.
Next Move™ never charges the people it serves. Revenue comes from B2B SaaS contracts with Departments of Corrections and community supervision agencies.
Next Move™ runs on correctional tablets (Securus, ViaPath, Orijin), smartphones, and any device with a web browser. No downloads or accounts required.
Yes. Next Move™ is available across all 50 states, aligned with the Reentry 2030 initiative. Reentry 2030 is a whole-of-government reform initiative led by the CSG Justice Center, and Next Move™ supports its goals by providing evidence-based decision training for people preparing for reentry.
Request a demo
Work with a corrections agency, veterans organization, foster care program, court system, or recovery network? Next Move™ is available for a walkthrough.