Edovo Cloud Based App Brings Free Scalable
Education Offering to Correctional Facilities and Incarcerated
Individuals
DALLAS, July 31,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Securus Technologies (Securus),
an Aventiv Technologies company committed to bridging the digital
divide and enabling educational opportunities for incarcerated
learners, today announced that the Edovo Platform (Edovo) is
available to all existing and new customers via streaming on its
secured network at no cost.
Edovo is a tech nonprofit that delivers a tablet-based
application that provides educational, vocational, and
rehabilitative curricula to incarcerated individuals across the
country. The platform recently upgraded to a cloud-based delivery
model with single sign-on capability, making it easier for
incarcerated individuals to access Edovo through 600,000+ Securus
tablets, increasing availability to skill-building and education
content that strengthens reentry outcomes.
The availability of education programs to incarcerated
individuals in correctional facilities can positively impact their
skills and future employment outcomes, thus reducing recidivism
rates. Research has found that those who participate in
correctional education programs are 43 percent less likely to
recidivate, while they attain employment at a rate that is 13
percent higher than those who do not participate.
"Offering a free resource that provides accessible education and
rehabilitation services gives incarcerated individuals a way to
constructively use their time, making environments safer while
building toward stronger reentry outcomes," said Kevin Elder, President, Securus Technologies.
"Expanding the rollout of Edovo to more than 600,000 incarcerated
individuals nationwide will provide best-in-class, tailored
educational opportunities that promote learning and help
individuals prepare for a brighter future."
To date, Edovo has been deployed in more than 900 correctional
facilities nationwide and served over one million
incarcerated learners, delivering over 70 million hours of
educational lessons. Single sign-on authentication makes Edovo easy
to use and requires no training to access self-paced content and
self-managed coursework. The app also offers a suite of robust
progress and monitoring tools, empowering corrections
administration to better coach and engage with those who
participate in the program.
"Our transition to streaming enables us to reach more people
seeking educational resources across the country and simplifies the
infrastructure needed to support our app on secure tablets within
the corrections environment," said Anna
DeLuna Ferguson, Chief of Staff, Edovo. "This transition,
combined with our scalability, provides a flexible solution that
can serve any facility's needs while providing highly relevant
content and robust reporting functionality that can drive
sustainable change."
Once live, Edovo's scalable app provides turnkey content that is
curated by facilities and third-party materials that can be added
to tablets on a facility-by-facility basis to meet learners'
individual needs, offering everything from education, vocational
and job skills to college foundations, faith and character,
rehabilitative resources, substance use treatment, parenting, anger
management, or legal resources. Platform content reflects offerings
from partners including Grow with Google, MasterClass, Prison
Professors, Modern States, Alcoholics Anonymous, The Marshall
Project, The Phoenix, The
Lionheart Foundation, and more.
Edovo complements Securus' premium education and reentry
programming from Essential Education that includes GED (General
Education Development) prep, HiSET prep, computer competency, and
financial literacy, among other offerings. To learn about Securus
Technologies' comprehensive line-up of educational offerings,
please visit us here: https://securustech.net/.
About Securus Technologies
Headquartered in
Plano, Texas, Securus
Technologies® (Securus) is an Aventiv Technologies company that
serves more than 1,800 public safety, law enforcement, and
corrections agencies as well as over 1,000,000 incarcerated
individuals across North America.
Founded in 1986, Securus offers innovative solutions like phone and
video connections and e-messaging, which connect family and friends
to their incarcerated loved ones. Their secure monitoring and
investigative solutions aid law enforcement and correctional
facility staff in their operations and efforts to maintain public
safety in communities nationwide. As the pioneers of tablet
technology, Securus introduced the first corrections-grade tablet
in 2011, revolutionizing how communication, entertainment, reentry,
and educational resources are deployed in complex corrections
environments, elevating efficiency in operations and stronger
reentry outcomes. For more information, please visit
https://www.aventiv.com/securus-technologies/ or follow us on
social media on LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook.
About Edovo
At Edovo, we are committed to making a
real difference in the lives of incarcerated individuals. We
believe that education is a powerful tool for transformation, and
we have seen firsthand how our programming can help incarcerated
learners build skills, improve their outlook, and prepare for a
successful reentry into society. Our story began in 2012 when our
founder, Brian Hill, recognized a
need for better educational opportunities in correctional
facilities. Since then, we have grown from a small startup to a
national leader within correctional education and rehabilitation,
establishing partnerships with some of the most respected
organizations in the field of corrections, education and
rehabilitation while serving hundreds of correctional facilities
and tens of thousands of incarcerated learners across the country.
To learn more about Edovo, please visit us here:
https://www.edovo.org/
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