When people that have been affected by the justice system try to re-enter the workforce, they often realize they may not have all the digital skills needed to excel in the workplace. Justice for Code helps these individuals learn digital literacy skills.
However, the program today is not as scalable as it could be. The main reason for this is that coordinating the program is a time consuming task.
Someone has to sit down and match each applicant to a mentor. When a human does this, it takes hours and hours of time. It’s doable today when the digital literacy program only has 30 students - but doing this same thing when the program scales to 500 is just unsustainable.
On top of this, as a program grows, how do you make sure that program admins and mentors can make sure they’re staying on top of the program and make sure that everything is going according to plan?
We need to create a solution that automates these manual processes of matching mentors and mentees and keeping track of the program’s progress.
We’ve design a solution that solves these two painpoints.
Digital Justice is a platform for mentors, mentees, and program administrators in the Digital Literacy program. Let’s walk through the platform and show you how it works.
As a new student, I log into the portal and fill out a survey about what kinds of digital literacy skills I want to develop - excel, slack, zoom, etc. If I don’t know, I can click this help button and a program coordinator can walk me through my survey.
From there, our algorithm will match each student to a mentor who has the skills or experience that they want to develop. Once the mentor accepts this invitation, the mentee is notified of the match.
As they continue taking their digital literacy courses in person, they meet with their mentor every other week over zoom. They can schedule meetings with their mentor via calendly within the platform itself. If they want to talk to different mentor about a topic their mentor may not know about, they can even find another mentor in the mentor directory and schedule one-off meetings with them.
After each bi-weekly meeting with their mentor, both the mentor and mentee fill out a survey about their meeting where they share things like progress towards their goal, how they’re feeling, and more.
As a mentor, I can log in to Digital Justice and see my mentee’s progress as well as some reports from these surveys to get a holistic overview of how my mentees are doing.
Finally, as program admin, I can do the same and log in to digital justice and have all the reports and information I need handy - I can see which mentors and mentees aren’t meeting up enough, what the overall progress of goals are in the program, and what the motivation level is for all the students in the program to make sure the program is running according to plan.
With this solution, we can handle any number of students - wether that’s 30 or 3,000. Through this automated matching approach and enhanced tracking and reporting, we can save hundreds of hours of time and create a truly scalable solution.
