Biography

Kevin Warwick

President

Alternative Solutions Associates Inc.

Kevin Warwick began working in the field of Criminal Justice in 1981 and has nearly 45 years of experience working  with corrections and reentry  services As Assistant superintendent of Community Corrections, Mr. Warwick managed several  community-based programs, including three partnership programs with probation, parole, and numerous community-based providers. In 1986, he designed and directed the first day reporting center in the country with the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department in Massachusetts. Mr. Warwick developed all of the reentry and community corrections programs in Hampden County. Mr. Warwick has worked with jurisdictions all around the country in 48 states developing reentry programs, jail overcrowding programs, and management solutions.

Kevin has worked  with the Urban Institute and the National Institute of Corrections on the Transition from Jail to Community Project to develop best practice models relating to jail reentry and community corrections with selected jurisdictions from around the country. Kevin is co-author of the Transition from Jail to Community (TJC) Initiative’s online learning resource: an online training tool for communities to design and develop local reentry systems. There are several other articles that are included in the publication page of the web site.He also serves as a site liaison and technical resource provider to the fourteen pilot sites in phases 1, 2 and 3 since 2007.He has worked for the Council of State Goverments  on various training and technical assistance projects since 2012.

He is presently a consultant working for many counties around the country on reentry planning and program implementation. He has provided on -site technical assistance and training to over 300 jurisdictions in 48 states. He has published numerous articles on community corrections, jail treatment, and reentry programs. Mr. Warwick has a master’s degree in social work from University of Connecticut and is an adjunct professor at Western New England College, the University of Massachusetts and Community College of Vermont. He received the Jim Justice Professional Excellence Award in May 1994, presented by the Corrections Association of Massachusetts. Mr. Warwick is the president of Alternative Solutions Associates, Inc., providing various consulting services including training, development, evaluation of local criminal justice systems, and program design and development.Kevin is very familiar with providing remote training via zoom and other remote platforms.

 Mary Heidel Haight

 Mary Heidel Haight provides expertise in principles and practices of corrections and reentry reform, including program and system mapping assessments, community supervision strategies, facilitated planning processes, capacity building, training and curriculum development, and responding to funding solicitations.Elected as the first statewide leader for the program directors of alternative incarceration programs in Connecticut, Ms. Heidel Haight facilitated a task force to create statewide standards for nonresidential facilities. As director of five alternative incarceration programs in Connecticut, she operationalized three programs from inception, including the first day reporting center in the state. In a consultant capacity throughout her career, Ms. Heidel Haight’s work in community corrections has included program design, grant acquisition, program implementation, policy and procedure development, audit compliance, and continuous quality improvement. She has also served on boards of criminal justice coordinating councils and led committee work within those boards. Responding to an identified need, Ms. Heidel Haight designed, implemented, and operated an innovative, nationally recognized gender-specific alternative-to-incarceration program in Dutchess County, New York. Most recently, she supervised the technical assistance provided to grantees across the country who have received federal funds in the corrections portfolio; she continues to promote and assist in the development and expansion of effective reentry strategies and programs. Ms. Heidel Haight began her career as a community supervision officer in Montana in both the juvenile and adult systems. During her tenure, she was instrumental in the development of the first alternative incarceration program for adults in the region, was appointed by the county commissioners to assist in the creation of model program for juveniles in detention and shared her knowledge of the criminal justice system through instructional coursework at the local college. She was subsequently honored as “Career Woman of the Year” by a local woman’s organization.

Ms. Heidel Haight received a BA in psychology/sociology-anthropology from Rocky Mountain College, Billings, MT and an MA in criminal justice from Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. She is a certified trainer in NY of the Women’s Risk Needs Assessment, and a facilitator of Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT). She has presented at national and state associations and conducted trainings and workshops in local and state level jurisdictions.

James Stoddard

Jim Stoddard LCHMC MLADC has served as a Program Director and mental health provider in a correctional setting for over five years. Additionally, he has been the mental health and suicide prevention instructor for the NH Corrections Academy, providing training for correctional officers working in county jails. As a dual licensed clinician, Jim has been an outpatient clinician in a community mental health center providing outpatient mental health and substance use treatment as well as providing county-wide emergency services for several hospitals. Jim has also experience managing an outpatient MAT program serving 120 clients weekly. His background both in the community and in correctional environments, has informed his work as a consultant. Jim has worked with ASAI on several projects, including being a co-presenter at the Justice and Mental Health Orientation Conference, and working with the State of Vermont’s correctional system and several county corrections mental health evaluations. Jim has a Master of Counseling from the University of Maine and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Maine.