Awakening Recovery

Lifesaving 12-Step Peer Mentoring Recovery Homes

SAVE THE DATE: AWAKENING RECOVERY 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION!

Join us on November 8, 2026, as we celebrate 10 years of recovery, community, and lives rebuilt.

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Executive Director David Van Der Velde discusses recovery principles.

Structured Men's and Women's Recovery Homes in Los Angeles

Our nonprofit drug free recovery homes in Los Angeles serve the most vulnerable with chronic and acute substance addiction. Our residents seek a life-saving, transformative and sustainable recovery approach in a gender specific collaborative living environment based on finding a spiritual awakening through the 12-Steps, combined with fostering lasting behavior change through mentoring from our fellow residents, and our alumni support community.

In operation since 2016, Awakening Recovery celebrates 10 years in 2026, providing dynamic, long-term recovery homes for men and women in Los Angeles and helping residents build sustainable recovery, restore relationships, and return to their communities.

People holding hands in a circle symbolizing support and recovery.

Why is our addiction-care system so much better at funding episodes than the long-term conditions that help people stay in recovery? In his newest article, our Co-Founding Executive Director, David Vandervelde, looks at how the system came to prioritize short-term clinical care—and why long-term recovery housing, accountability and 12-Step community, working alongside appropriate clinical services, deserve a larger place in what we fund and measure. Read “How Addiction Care Learned to Think in Episodes”: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-addiction-care-learned-think-episodes-david-van-der-velde-zotqc #RecoveryHousing #AddictionRecovery #RecoveryCommunity #LongTermRecovery

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