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.
In 2020, one foundation turned it first: a $175,000 seed gift and two donated townhouses started this engine.
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, in recovery since 2009, President of Ohio Recovery Housing, OneOhio board member · Adam Ciganik, CPRS, in recovery since 2019 · Christopher Lattimer, automations supervisor, in recovery 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
Part two · Under the hood
"Hope Town is not aspirational about AI. We're already building."
The Engine: Built and Running
Click any component.
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.
Arrival · The border to recovery
The last miles of every recovery journey run through checkpoints of paperwork: services, systems, and offices that turn a simple need into a missed day. Hope Town built a passport for the crossing.
Hope Town's solution to navigating complex systems & services
Complete the passport to clear the road to recovery.
Recovery Passport · Hope Town, Ohio
Record of Accomplishment
One recorded gap saves every rider that follows.
Every box checked lowers a barrier at the border.
"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.