Because 30 days is not enough to change a lifetime of deeply embedded beliefs and behavioral patterns.
Awakening Recovery provides the most effective long-term way to address the drug addiction and alcoholism crisis. The combination of rigorous & consistent house structure and an active and dedicated alumni support community on hand for support makes Awakening Recovery truly unique, creating a highly effective and long-term life change for its residents.
NIH states that the best outcomes occur with longer than 3 month durations of treatment and one of their studies showed over 90% of people in opiate treatment relapse after treatment, 59% within a week.
WE HELP MANY WHO ARE WILLING BUT WITHOUT RESOURCES
A SAMHSA study showed 90% of the 21 million American citizens seeking treatment don’t get it due to a lack of insurance.
Because we are non-profit, Awakening Recovery is able to provide our unique sober living home environment to the uninsured through scholarships and can maintain integrity and authenticity because we do not have the decision and monetizing pressures of a ‘for-profit’ recovery home.
MORE STRUCTURE MAKES FOR BETTER OUTCOMES
Many recovery homes in the Los Angeles area provide little structure leading to higher rates of relapse and even overdoses. Awakening Recovery is the only non-profit, year+ long 12-Step recovery home in the Los Angeles area that has a highly structured peer mentoring approach.
The combination of rigorous, consistent structure and having an active and dedicated alumni support community on hand for support, makes Awakening Recovery truly unique and optimal to create a highly effective life change for its residents long-term.
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.