Voices from people using Next Move
Coming home after abuse and prison, I didn’t trust my own judgment. Next Move™ became the place where I could mess up in private first—try different choices, see how they might play out, and then go back and pick better ones. It helped me show up for my kids and for myself without falling back into the same dangerous patterns.
Inside, I had a tablet, but I mostly used it to zone out on games. Nobody taught me how to actually get ready for the decisions waiting at the gate. With Next Move™, I finally got what I wish I’d had back then—a way to practice the real choices about housing, safety, and family before I had to live with them.
As a trans woman with a record, even normal stuff can feel risky—answering a room-for-rent ad, starting a new job, riding the train at night. Next Move™ let me rehearse how to handle disrespect, misgendering, and unsafe offers without putting my body on the line. That decision practice helped me find safer options that still feel true to who I am.
In the service, you train before you’re ever in combat. Coming home from prison, it felt like nothing but combat and no training. Next Move™ filled that gap. I ran through realistic scenarios—job interviews, co-parenting, dealing with anger—until choosing the calmer path felt like muscle memory instead of just something my counselor said I ‘should’ do.
I’m 23, and by the time I came home, it felt like people had already decided I was just a ‘bad decision.’ Everyone kept telling me to make better choices, but nobody showed me what that looks like in real life. Next Move™ broke it down: do I go with my old crew or head to work, tell my PO the truth or lie, spend my first paycheck smart or blow it. After a while, I started choosing what future-me would want, not just what felt good in the moment.
My kids didn’t trust me, and honestly, I didn’t blame them. Every conversation felt like it could explode. Next Move™ gave me a chance to practice those talks first—what to say, when to listen, when to step away. Seeing the impact of different choices on screen helped me stay calm and keep the door open with my kids instead of slamming it shut again.
This wasn’t my first time coming home. I knew exactly how easy it is to slide back into the same people, same street, same trouble. Next Move™ helped me walk through those moments before they happened—what if I ignore the text, what if I call my sponsor instead, what if I go straight to work. For the first time, I felt like I had more than one script to follow.
“No one should have to make the decisions of a lifetime without ever getting to practice them.”
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Whether you run a reentry program, a correctional-tablet platform, or a state agency thinking about the next decade of reentry — Next Move™ is open to a conversation.