Alternative Solutions can provide a range of services to support agencies in the grant writing process.  We provide assistance with strategic planning in regard to potential funding sources to assist in operations, community or institutional programs and other areas of focus. ASAI can assist counties in developing a program plan to work towards securing funding for Justice assistance grants, Byrne Formula, Second Chance Act and others.

Services would include:

• Grant writing

• Concept development

• Assist in the searching and locating potential funding sources

• Contact and development of an action plan

The staff at Alternative Solutions has worked on the development of grants in the following areas:

• Jail expansion and development

• Community treatment programs

• Offender employment and training programs

• Offender treatment programs

• Community corrections programs

• Court-based programs (i.e. Drug Courts)

 The following are some recent projects that successfully secured grant funding:

• Worked with counties to secure 8 awards out of 8 applications in 2010
• Santa Barbara County, California
• Norfolk County, Massachusetts
• Project More, New Haven, Connecticut
• Sullivan County, New Hampshire
• Union House Community Treatment Center, Corporation for Justice Management, Bridgeport, CT

• Community Reentry Center, Corporation for Justice Management, Springfield, MA

• North Central Correctional and Rehabilitation Center, Rugby, North Dakota

• Life Skills and Employment Collaborative, Hampden County Corrections Center, Springfield, MA

• Vision of Hope: Offender Housing and Transition Program, Louisville, Kentucky