Men's House

A Year-plus, Abstinence-based Recovery Home Built on the 12-Steps, Peer Mentoring, and Community

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Two Brothers' AR Journey to 7+ Years of Sobriety

A Sibling's Perspective On Her Brother

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The Vital Need For A Men's Recovery Home in LA:

Stigma: Men face stigma in society while struggling with chronic and acute substance addiction, which can lead to feelings of shame or embarrassment, hindering and delaying their willingness to seek help.

Mental Health Challenges: Co-occurring mental health issues, such as depression and anxiety are common among men with chronic and acute substance addiction, and men have been socialized to suppress emotions making it difficult to fully engage in a sober collaborative living environment. This is greatly helped by being in an incubating peer mentoring environment where the common bond is brothers in recovery supporting and mentoring them in the first year showing them it is possible from their own lived experience.

Family and Relationship Responsibilities and Stressors: Men often have family and relationship responsibilities that make a long-term commitment to a recovery process challenging, and strains on those relationships as their substance addiction progresses to the chronic and acute stage erodes support systems.  Our year+ recovery home process for men helps them rebuild their lives from the ground up, building bridges back to family and other relationships.

Accessibility To Long-Term Solutions: There is a drastic lack of availability and funding of beds in LA for drug free recovery homes that can provide year+ commitments to men seeking sustainable recovery with no financial barriers to entry.

AR's year-plus, abstinence-based recovery-home process combines structured daily living, peer mentoring, and a parallel 12-Step process to graduation. Residents build accountability, healthy routines, and meaningful connections through daily life in a recovery community.

Spiritual awakening is central to our approach. Fellow residents, alumni, and staff share their lived experience and support one another in practicing the 12 Steps, developing lasting behavioral change, and living a service-centered life in recovery.

AR provides nonclinical recovery housing and peer support. Residents are connected with outside clinical and community providers for additional support. As residents progress, they work toward employment, stronger family and community relationships, and the skills to sustain recovery after graduation.

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I learn more about becoming a resident?

Call us at 424-209-7507. Our team will answer your questions and connect you with the right person for the Men's House.

What is Awakening Recovery's process to graduation?

Awakening Recovery follows a dynamic, year-plus process built on the 12 Steps and peer mentoring with a graduation end goal, but each resident's progress through that path towards graduation is individual. Call 424-209-7507 to learn more.

How can a family member or professional get more information?

Family members and referring professionals are welcome to call 424-209-7507, where we'll connect you with the appropriate point person for the Men's House.

Who should I contact with general questions about Awakening Recovery?

For general questions about our organization, call 424-209-7507 and we'll direct you to the right person.

What is daily life like at Awakening Recovery?

Residents participate in a highly structured, 12-Step-centered recovery community built around daily peer mentoring, personal responsibility, and mutual support. A distinctive strength of Awakening Recovery is the lasting connection residents develop with one another and with alumni who remain involved in the community. This network provides continuity, accountability, and meaningful support as residents build stability and a sustainable life in recovery.

What makes Awakening Recovery's approach different?

Awakening Recovery provides long-term, gender-specific recovery housing in Los Angeles through a highly structured, abstinence-based model grounded in the 12 Steps, daily peer mentoring, accountability, and community. AR also coordinates residents' access to Medi-Cal-based medical, dental, mental health, and outpatient services delivered by outside providers. This holistic approach gives residents the time, relationships, structure, and coordinated support needed to build a sustainable foundation for long-term recovery.

Our Unique Approach and Process

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A Mother and Son's Perspective

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The House

  • Centrally located in West Los Angeles near public transportation, 12-Step meetings, social services, restaurants and markets
  • We have great non-profit referral relationships with wellness, physical and mental health resources for residents to utilize during their stay with us
  • 5 bedroom 4.5 bath house helping up to 16 men at a time find a long-term recovery solution
  • Staffed by men in recovery to mentor our residents based on their own lived experience in recovery
  • Utilizes AR alumni to sponsor men in their 12-step process that runs parallel to the lasting behavior change driven structure of the house.