# AI-powered social entrepreneurship training and community-opportunities matching platform for women enrolled in drug treatment programs.

> **NIH NIH R43** · GOODDLER, INC · 2020 · $55,000

## Abstract

The Opioid drug crisis in US increases at an alarming rate with 68% of the more than 70,200
drug overdose deaths in 2017 involved an opioid, averaging 130 Americans dying every day
from opioid overdose (CDC, 2013). Remarkably, between 1999 and 2010, overdose deaths
from prescription painkillers increased more than 400% among women, astonishing 1.7 times
higher than that of men; and heroin use among women between 2002 and 2013 increased
100%, 2 times higher than among men (CDC, 2013). There is a call for gender-focused drug
abuse interventions (OWH, 2016; NIH, 2018). Adverse social conditions, including economic
insecurity, have been identified as risk factors for opioid use among women and reasons for
relapse. Addressing addiction problems in conjunction with vocational rehabilitation and,
specifically, entrepreneurial skills training has been suggested (SAMHSA, 2000). Furthermore, a
good behavioral strategy should include community involvement, as it helps to maintain
successful addictive behavioral change (NDCI, 2014). Unfortunately, only a handful of recovery
centers offer entrepreneurial skills training and help women to engage in volunteer work or offer
them employment opportunities, due to the lack of financial and human resources (SAHMSA,
2000). The objective of this Phase I grant application is to establish technical and
commercial feasibility of Gooddler AI-powered, online social entrepreneurship training
platform that aims to provide recovery centers with a cost-effective option that will
address entrepreneurial skills training and match women with open job or volunteer
opportunities at local non-profit organizations. To accomplish this objective, we plan to
execute the following specific aims: 1) demonstrate commercial feasibility of Gooddler social
entrepreneurship training curriculum with three recovery centers in San Francisco Bay Area;
and 2) demonstrate the technical feasibility of Gooddler platform to match women in recovery
with appropriate volunteering and/job opportunities at local non-profit organizations. We will
establish the technical feasibility by developing community-opportunities matching model that
will address the specifications of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). The commercial feasibility
will be demonstrated by helping women to gain skills and knowledge for meaningful
engagement (job, volunteering, entrepreneurship). Success will move us closer to our long-term
goal of providing drug recovery centers with a tool to help 430,000 women, entering US drug
treatment programs every year, to get on the path of productive social involvement in
communities of their choice.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10209840
- **Project number:** 3R43DA051061-01S1
- **Recipient organization:** GOODDLER, INC
- **Principal Investigator:** Galina Fedorova
- **Activity code:** R43 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $55,000
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2020-09-29 → 2020-11-17

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10209840

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10209840, AI-powered social entrepreneurship training and community-opportunities matching platform for women enrolled in drug treatment programs. (3R43DA051061-01S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10209840. Licensed CC0.

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