Women's House

Empowering Women Through A Unique, Transformative and Sustainable Path to Recovery In A Drug Free Collaborative Living Environment.

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The Vital Need For A Gender Specific Recovery Home For Women:

Women wait longer to seek help as leaders in their family systems, often progressing to a more chronic and acute stage of substance addiction by the time they become residents.

Shame and stigma for women seeking substance addiction recovery creates a desperate need for a collaborative living environment that promotes a safe, transformative, sustainable and peer mentoring recovery experience with other women.

Our women's house residents have experienced significant histories of trauma and abuse and need the house as a sanctuary for healing.

The social status and economic situations of our women's house residents prior to entry create struggles where they are often unemployed, facing housing insecurity, struggling with child reunification and drug related legal issues. Our year+ long process provides the time for our women's house resident to build a strong foundation fostering sustainable recovery.

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 Women'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 Women'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.

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Clinician Perspective

Alumni Perspective

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Our Unique Approach and Process

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Our year+ long drug free recovery home in a collaborative living environment gives our residents time to thaw out from their active addiction. 

Our high impact peer mentoring recovery home process from alumni with lived experiences focuses on long-term behavior change in parallel with active 12-Step participation, together creating a transformative mind, body and spirit experience for residents.

Our drug free recovery home is life saving for our residents, where their chronic and acute poly-substance addiction over many years is often combined with using MAT (medically assisted treatment such as buprenorphine and methadone) as drugs of abuse.

Our weekly wellness activities such as yoga, breathwork meditation, recovery walking/running activities, and in-house gym and training help provide a whole person approach to recovery.

Our focus during the second half of our resident’s year+ long process in the house is on reintegration to their community as sober members of society through employment, building fellowship connections in the recovery community, mental health referrals as needed, relationship building with their family system, and developing coping skills to successfully live a transformed sober life.

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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 6 bath house helping up to 14 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 and AR alumni to sponsor women in their 12-step process that runs parallel to the lasting behavior change driven structure of the house.