Guidance
One on One Mentorship
Participants receive personalized guidance and life coaching from formerly incarcerated mentors who have successfully navigated reentry.
Program 01 / 04Prevention
Stopping the cycle before it starts
Aims to reduce system involvement before it ever begins.
Reentry Program
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.
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.
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
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.
A Reentry Program — 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 for individuals within 18 months of release
Housing Assistance for Returning Citizens
H.A.R.C. supports formerly incarcerated individuals in securing and maintaining stable housing during the critical transition home, when the risk of homelessness and returning to old cycles is highest. The program helps participants navigate housing barriers, access available resources, and establish the foundation needed for long term stability and a fresh start.
Stabilize
Rental Assistance
Mid term financial support to help cover rent and prevent housing instability for formerly incarcerated individuals as they reestablish their lives. We also provide guidance on budgeting and financial planning to build long term stability and financial independence.
Navigate
Mentorship
Support from people with lived experience who have successfully rebuilt after incarceration. Our mentors provide real world guidance, accountability, and understanding from those who have navigated the same path.
Secure
The Goal
Safe, stable housing that creates a strong foundation for our participants to rebuild their life and move forward with dignity.
Rehabilitation Programs
Transformation does not wait for release. The Reentry Blueprint helps people inside build the mindset, skills, and plan they need before coming home.
Two programs — one at a time
An 11 week facility based program
The Reentry Blueprint
Credible Messenger ModelPlan BuildingInside FacilitiesRelease Readiness
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.
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.
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
016 to 12 week self guided courses sent via U.S. Mail
02Personalized written feedback from our team on every assignment
03Certificate of completion awarded at the end of each course
Correspondence based access
Growth, reflection, and rehabilitation for people on lockdown, in ad-seg, or at facilities with long program waitlists.
Prevention Programs
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.
Stability
01Therapy & Healing Support
Trauma-informed care, cognitive behavioral therapy, and healing centered support that helps process harm and build healthier patterns.
Guidance
02Credible 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
03Skill Building & Life Preparation
Practical tools, life skills, and guidance that strengthen decision making, resilience, and long term stability.
Opportunity
04New Experiences
Field trips, cultural exposure, career exploration, and community experiences that expand vision and open new possibilities.
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.