An Anchorage couple's homes give 80 men a place to start over
Ashleigh and Jose Valcarcel's Northern Alliance Reentry runs six sober transitional houses. Former residents have gone on to their own apartments and jobs.
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Ashleigh and Jose Valcarcel, who rebuilt their own lives, now run Northern Alliance Reentry in Anchorage. The program houses 80 men who are starting over after prison, in six sober transitional homes. People who have already moved through the houses have their own apartments and jobs.
The homes are a place to land first. The apartments and the paychecks are what some of those men have now.
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