Hope Town, Inc. · Windham, Ohio · A companion to our People-First AI Fund application
This page is a vehicle. Hope Town built it, the same way we built everything on the dashboard you are about to see.
Every engine needs someone to turn the key.
Now it's your hand on the key.
click to turn the key
↓ engine running · scroll to drive
Part one · The dashboard
Twelve months of a recovery ecosystem in motion. Every number below is from our 2025 operations. But before you drive, adjust your mirror.
Rearview mirror · who is driving
Ted St. John, clean since 2.20.09, President of Ohio Recovery Housing, OneOhio board · Adam Ciganik, CPRS, in recovery since 2019 · Christopher Lattimer, automations supervisor, lived experience · Lived experience drives this vehicle.
The mirror is crooked. Give it a few nudges to bring the drivers into focus.
902 rides / month
Velocity. In recovery, people die while they wait. Speed is a vital sign.
Odometer: 287,103 miles driven in 2025, to treatment, work, court, meetings and care.
Fully Charged: 100 AI learners
Powered by Ohio's first community-based AI Academy.
10,824 total rides
Trip counter. Hope on Wheels, Medicaid-reimbursed, open to the whole community.
34 men housed
In the cabin. ORH-certified Levels 1 and 2 recovery housing.
42 navigated
Linkage and Navigation participants, all at or below the Federal Poverty Level.
28
rent scholarships
1,404
rides for housing participants
1st
Recovery Community Center opened in Windham
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revenue growth and surpluses funding our own innovation
FM · ··· static ···
Somewhere on this dial is a station worth finding.
Turn the knob to tune
Our AI Academy shares a building with the food bank and the library. We are where the community's feet are.
Part two · Under the hood
"Hope Town is not aspirational about AI. We're already building."
The Engine: Built and Running
Click any component. Press and hold the engine block to rev it.
September 2026: Ohio's first AI for Leadership conference in behavioral health, workforce and recovery services, hosted by Hope Town
Fifty million Americans deal with addiction.
People die while they wait. For a bed, a ride, a job, an appointment, a friend or a skill.
And those in recovery possess exactly what the AI transformation of work demands: neuroplasticity, behavioral adaptability, resourcefulness, and a new way of living. A left-behind, untapped population, ready to become a powerhouse national workforce.
Policy illuminated
Shift into drive
We have spent enough time in park. Select D.
"By pioneering this concept, Hope Town and OpenAI together become a model for thousands of organizations serving millions of people."
Deep proximity to the problem, coupled with an AI-ready team, answering a question with national implications.