Before
Prevention
Early intervention efforts break generational cycles of incarceration through community resources, education, and basic needs support that work to strengthen stability and reduce system involvement before it begins.
Programs
Supportat everystage
Four connected pillars meet people wherever they are and carry them forward.
- Prevention
- Rehabilitation
- Reentry
- Housing
Breaking GenerationalCycles
Prevention, rehabilitation, reentry, and housing form a continuum of care that reduces recidivism and builds lasting pathways to stability and growth.
ALi operating model
Programs
ALi supports system impacted individuals at every stage. We help them navigate barriers, build stability, and build pathways toward healing, opportunity, and living a life of amends.
Support architecture
ALi programs are designed to work as a continuous system of support and not isolated services.
During
Rehabilitation
In prison transformation work focuses on mindset change and personal growth for people currently incarcerated in California state prisons through behavioral change programming, life skills, and healing centered practices we prepare them for reentry.
After
Reentry
Our support for returning residents includes case management, peer mentorship, employment readiness, and practical assistance to help formerly incarcerated individuals successfully transition back into the community.
Foundation
Housing
Our housing stability services connect system impacted individuals to transitional housing, rental assistance, and housing navigation support to prevent homelessness and support long term stability.
Reentry
Reentry looks different for everyone. ALi meets system impacted people exactly where they are. We walk them through the process of rebuilding by providing practical support and resources.
Flagship reentry program
Navigating Life
ALi's Navigating Life is a trauma informed reentry support program to help formerly incarcerated individuals, particularly those returning after long term sentences, successfully reintegrate into Los Angeles County communities. The program empowers participants to shift from the survival mindset shaped by incarceration to a growth mindset grounded in healing, stability, and long term success.
Guidance
Peer Led
Stability
First steps
Community
Ongoing
Program capabilities
We provide comprehensive, wraparound reentry support including mentorship, wellness, job readiness, and emergency assistance. Our services are grounded in the realities that returning citizens face when they come home.
Guidance
One on One Mentorship
Participants receive personalized guidance and life coaching from formerly incarcerated mentors who have successfully navigated reentry.
Community
Peer Support Groups
We create a safe space for participants to share experiences, build community, and learn from one another in honesty and connection.
Wellness
Wellness Outings
We host holistic monthly outings that include hikes, runs, group workouts, and meditation to promote both physical and mental wellness.
Readiness
Job Readiness
Practical support including resume development, interview preparation, and connections to employers committed to second chance hiring.
Stability
Emergency Financial Assistance
Immediate support for essential needs such as clothing, hygiene products, and food during the critical early stages of reentry.
H.A.R.C.
Without stable housing, everything else falls apart. H.A.R.C. helps formerly incarcerated people secure and maintain housing during the critical first years home.
Housing support
Housing Assistance for Returning Citizens
H.A.R.C. supports people in securing stable housing, navigating barriers, and building a fresh start after release.
Stabilize
Rental Assistance
Short to midterm support while members build toward independence.
Navigate
Mentorship
Guidance from people who understand reentry firsthand.
Rehabilitation programs
Blueprint
Transformation does not wait for release. The Reentry Blueprint helps people inside build the mindset, skills, and plan they need before coming home.
An 11 week facility based program
The Reentry Blueprint
The Reentry Blueprint is an 11 week transformative program taught in California prisons to currently incarcerated individuals. The program balances restorative justice with comprehensive reentry preparation through a model that combines inner healing and practical reentry planning, preparing participants to return home as stable, contributing members of society.
Credible Messenger Model
Plan building
Inside facilities
Release readiness
Facility based programs
Our facility based programs equip currently incarcerated individuals with a clear support plan to guide their first steps after release and support a successful transition home.
Practice
Skill Building
Skill building sessions focus on real world preparation like resume development, housing applications, and building a support network participants can rely on after release.
Planning
Focus Areas
Core focus areas include employment readiness, parole preparation, housing navigation, healthy relationships, and relapse prevention.
Accountability
Restorative Justice Practices
Restorative justice practices guide self reflection while building skills in emotional regulation, conflict resolution, and healthy decision making.
Outcome
The Outcome
Participants leave with a personal reentry plan, foundational documents in progress, and the mindset to move forward with stability and purpose.
Correspondence based access
Growth, reflection, and rehabilitation for people on lockdown, in ad-seg, or at facilities with long program waitlists.
Healing Through the Mail
Correspondence based access
Focused support for individuals in restrictive housing, ad-seg, or institutions where access to programming is limited or delayed, centered on personal growth, reflection, and rehabilitation.
Healing Through the Mail is a self paced program that provides individuals in California state prisons who are segregated from the general population or unable to access programs due to long waitlists an opportunity for growth, reflection, and rehabilitation.
Anger Management
Domestic Violence
Criminal & Addictive Thinking
Empathy & Emotional Intelligence
Victim Awareness
Relapse Prevention
6 to 12 week self guided courses sent via U.S. Mail
Personalized written feedback from our team on every assignment
Certificate of completion awarded at the end of each course
Prevention
ALi's prevention programs break cycles of incarceration by providing guided support and community connection for youth and adults in communities where incarceration is common. Our programs interrupt system involvement and create real pathways away from incarceration.
Breaking Generational Cycles
We empower adults and youth with supportive services and a healing centered space that helps them break cycles of harm and transform their understanding of what is possible, recognizing that incarceration and system involvement do not have to be their future.
Stability
Therapy & Healing Support
Trauma-informed care, cognitive behavioral therapy, and healing centered support that helps process harm and build healthier patterns.
Guidance
Credible Messenger Mentorship
One-on-one support from credible messengers with lived experience who understand the realities that young people and adults from disenfranchised communities are forced to navigate.
Growth
Skill Building & Life Preparation
Practical tools, life skills, and guidance that strengthen decision making, resilience, and long term stability.
Opportunity
New Experiences
Field trips, cultural exposure, career exploration, and community experiences that expand vision and open new possibilities.