LOS ANGELES
RECOVERY HOME
A 12-Step Based Recovery Community that is Unique & Life-saving.
Women’s House Now Open.
STRUCTURED PEER-MENTORING BASED RECOVERY HOME
Our non-profit recovery community was created to provide a safe and effective environment for men to build the foundation of a fulfilling and productive life. Our residents maintain continuous sobriety by staying in our long-term, 12-Step based community that includes lovingly confrontational peer-mentoring. We have found this process really works.
Once the foundation of sobriety is set, our residents can pursue recovery-oriented goals like repairing relationships, getting a job, and being a positive influence on others.
Our abstinence-based community is built upon these values:
Application of 12-Step Philosophy
The Power of Peer Mentoring to Support Personal Change
Accountability, Rigorous Honesty, Personal Responsibility
Men who have graduated from our house stay integrated with our substantial sober support community and participate in their own and others’ recovery.
We have found that a 12+ month structured recovery process in a family like peer-mentoring environment is the best way to reach these goals. As a non-profit, our house is affordable. We’re able to provide the setting for someone to recover at a fraction of the cost of short-term medical model treatment options. Thanks to the support of our donors, we are able to use 100% of fees for room/board and our long-term recovery solution.
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In Their Own Words
“When I arrived…I was a broken, 30 year old child. Awakening Recovery helped me to stop running and to face life as a man, and to take responsibility for myself. [It] has been the greatest gift and accomplishment of my Life!”
– Chris M.
HOW OUR APPROACH
IS DIFFERENT
Our community mentors residents through a rigorous and transformative year+ long spiritually awakening process which includes:
Behavioral Tools:
Interrupt & redirect self-sabotaging behavior
Peer Mentoring Family House Meetings:
Address root issues at the level of responsibility & integrity
Daily and Weekly Activities:
Establish new healthy routines/coping skills
Resident Specific Recovery Habit Forming Routines:
Change core beliefs and behaviors though daily spiritual and behavioral routines.
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David got clean and sober in 1988 at the age of 19, close to death from his own struggles with drug addiction and alcoholism. Now 32+ years clean and sober, he has been consistently active in his recovery community by mentoring others, serves on recovery and youth related non-profit Boards such as LifeWorks and the West Hollywood Recovery Center, and serves on panels at institutions speaking from his own experience about recovery.
Joelene Knight, is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Grace Recovery, a sub-acute and residential treatment program located in Hollywood, California, as well as a Board Member at Awakening Recovery, a unique life-saving nonprofit that specializes in recovery homes with a long-term, 12-Step addiction solution that creates a lasting change in core beliefs and behaviors.