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.

Event Details

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.

Today, Awakening Recovery joins communities around the world in remembering those lost to overdose and holding close the families and friends who carry that grief. Keeping someone alive is essential. So is what comes next: a safe place to live, structure, accountability, peer community, and enough time to build a lasting foundation in recovery. That is the missing middle we work to fill every day. Twenty-five years on, International Overdose Awareness Day is still needed. We will keep remembering—and keep working toward a future in which fewer families experience this loss. International Overdose Awareness Day is an initiative of Penington Institute: https://www.overdoseday.com/ #25YearsStillNeeded #IOAD2026 #EndOverdose

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