How Our Approach is Different
We believe it takes longer than 30 days to change a lifetime of deeply embedded beliefs and behavioral patterns.
- Residents follow a rigorous year+ long phase-up process based on the principles of the 12-Steps, reinforced by a lovingly confrontational peer mentoring process.
- Connection and community are a vital part of our recovery process.
Traditional Treatment Isn’t for Everyone
- Traditional treatment focuses on feelings — we change core beliefs and behaviors.
- The relationship between long-term recovery and length of stay demonstrates why our year+ long process is so successful.
- 12-Step philosophy combined with a peer mentoring, behaviorally based process in a family recovery home setting provides a powerful path to recovery.
Community
After graduating, alumni continue to give back to the house by:
- Sponsoring residents in their 12-Step spiritual experience and acting as peer mentors.
- Leading weekly newcomer, middle of the board and senior members peer mentoring family house meetings.
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Women with substance addiction experience significant prejudice due to societal attitudes and stereotypes of women who drink and use drugs
Less than 10% of women seeking a recovery solution get it due to not having insurance or being underinsured. – NSDUH
Our 12 bed women’s house will help 30-35 women annually find a long-term recovery solution that works.
A Different Approach To Recovery
A Long-Term Solution That Works
www.awakeningrecovery.org
Phone: Aida Richey 225-400-4676
Instagram: @awakeningrecoverywla
Facebook: @awakeningwla
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Awakening Recovery is a non-profit substance addiction recovery home located in West Los Angeles, serving women ages 18+
Awakening Recovery’s mission is to provide a structured, life-changing path to sustainable recovery for people with chronic drug and alcohol addiction, offering access with no financial barriers.
Our process builds a foundation for a secure and productive life that helps our residents rebuild relationships and savings in the bank, hold a job, and continue their new lifestyle for the long-term by:
- Lovingly confronting and beginning to heal maladaptive behaviors that trigger relapse
- Interrupting and redirecting self- sabotaging behavior
- Establishing new healthy routines/coping skills
- Embedding new core beliefs
LA Needs a non-profit gender specific women’s year+ long recovery home with no financial barriers for willing residents because:
- More than 80% of women seeking substance addiction recovery have physical/sexual abuse and/or 40-56% PTSD in their history
- Women are often the primary caregivers in their family so hold on longer and progress further in their addiction before seeking recovery.
- There are many recovery homes for women in LA, but the costs can be high, many don’t have a year+ long process, and none never saying no to a willing resident prospect based on financial hardships.
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A non-profit gender specific long-term recovery solution for women
Our new women’s house in West Los Angeles
- Centrally located near public transportation, social services, restaurants and markets
- We have great non-profit referral relation-ships with wellness, physical and mental health resources for residents to utilize during their stay with us
- 5 bedroom 6 bath house helping up to 12 women at a time find a long-term recovery solution
- Staffed by women in recovery to mentor our residents based on their own lived experience in recovery
- Utilizes the women’s recovery community in LA to sponsor women in their 12-step process that runs parallel to the lasting behavior change driven structure of the house.