Awakening Recovery - A Non-Profit Structured Recovery Home in West La

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Awakening Recovery - A Non-Profit Structured Recovery Home in West La A 12+ month, non-profit peer mentoring/12-Step/structured substance addiction recovery home solution.

Awakening Recovery is a non-profit organization on a mission to provide a structured, life-changing path to sustainable recovery for people with chronic substance addiction, offering access with no financial barriers. Our vision is to be a beacon of hope for those who suffer from substance addiction and a proven model for long-term recovery, locally and nationally. Awakening Recovery has already helped more than 200 residents begin our rigorous, year+ peer mentoring recovery home process focusing on the 12-Steps and sustainable behavior change. We opened our men's house in July 2016 and our women's house in February of 2023. Both houses now enable us to annually help approximately 70 residents. Awakening Recovery offers scholarships to residents with financial need and we are proud to say that, in over 7 years of operation, Awakening Recovery has never turned away a willing prospective resident due to lack of funds.

Our co-founding executive director, David Vandervelde, is speaking this Wednesday at CCAPP’s National Recovery Capital C...
10/12/2026

Our co-founding executive director, David Vandervelde, is speaking this Wednesday at CCAPP’s National Recovery Capital Conference about how long-term recovery housing builds lasting recovery. Join him October 14, 11:15 AM–12:15 PM, at the Sheraton Universal.

Agenda and registration: https://ccappconferences.com/cac/

Open beds at Awakening Recovery’s men’s and women’s recovery homes in Los Angeles.As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, helping peop...
10/07/2026

Open beds at Awakening Recovery’s men’s and women’s recovery homes in Los Angeles.

As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, helping people without financial resources is central to our mission.

Our homes serve adults 18+ through a dynamic, year-plus recovery home process grounded in abstinence, the 12 Steps, and daily peer mentoring. Residents build community and accountability alongside peers, alumni, and staff who share their lived experience.

We coordinate access to Medi-Cal-based medical, dental, outpatient treatment, therapy and psychiatry services through outside care partners.

Call if you or someone you know needs help
424-209-7507
https://awakeningrecovery.org

Families deserve support while a young adult builds recovery, including room to ask for help themselves.In “What Familie...
09/29/2026

Families deserve support while a young adult builds recovery, including room to ask for help themselves.

In “What Families Need While a Young Adult Builds Recovery,” our Executive Director, David van der Velde, explores finding appropriate care together, listening to the young adult, rebuilding trust over time and caring for the family’s own wellbeing. The article focuses on young adults ages 18 and older and includes SAMHSA’s family guide, research on family support and Al-Anon resources.

Read and share with someone who would find it helpful:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-families-need-while-young-adult-builds-recovery-van-der-velde-dfxqc/

Finding your people in recovery takes time, introductions and follow-through.In “Finding Your People in Recovery,” our E...
09/22/2026

Finding your people in recovery takes time, introductions and follow-through.

In “Finding Your People in Recovery,” our Executive Director, David van der Velde, reflects on family relationships, peer mentoring and the responsibility we share to help someone find their place in a recovery community. The article draws on his own experience and two studies featured in the Recovery Research Institute’s September bulletin.

Read the article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/finding-your-people-recovery-david-van-der-velde-lfcbc/

Recovery takes people willing to keep showing up.On National Gratitude Day, we want to thank the people who make Awakeni...
09/21/2026

Recovery takes people willing to keep showing up.

On National Gratitude Day, we want to thank the people who make Awakening Recovery a community: our residents and alumni, families, staff, Board, donors, referral and treatment partners, and the wider recovery community.

Thank you for the time you give, the experience you share, and the trust you place in this work. An honest conversation, a return visit to help someone newer, and steady support over time all matter.

We are grateful to build this community with you.

God bless all those we lost on that day and as a result since.❤️🙏
09/11/2026

God bless all those we lost on that day and as a result since.❤️🙏

It was a powerful Summer at AR and in our 10th Anniversary month in July our graduate Austin celebrated 10 years sober! ...
09/10/2026

It was a powerful Summer at AR and in our 10th Anniversary month in July our graduate Austin celebrated 10 years sober! - “I am forever grateful for Awakening Recovery. I never thought I would get a single year let alone double digit sobriety. Awakening truly prepared me for long term sobriety. They gave me the tools to be successful in life and the community to help support me.“ - Austin / Graduate and Alumni Board Member

You’re invited! Join Awakening Recovery as we celebrate a decade of changing lives and the community that makes long-ter...
09/09/2026

You’re invited! Join Awakening Recovery as we celebrate a decade of changing lives and the community that makes long-term recovery possible.

Sunday, November 8, 2026
Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles
6 PM Cocktail Reception
7 PM Dinner and Award Presentation

Come celebrate with our graduates, families, friends, and supporters. Individual tickets are $350, and sponsorship opportunities are available.

Tickets, sponsorships, and full event details:
https://secure.qgiv.com/event/awakeningrecoveryauction

Recovery happens together.Connection is not an extra in recovery. It is part of the foundation.Recovery housing, peer su...
09/03/2026

Recovery happens together.

Connection is not an extra in recovery. It is part of the foundation.

Recovery housing, peer support, families, employers, faith communities, treatment providers, and other community supports each have a different role. When those roles connect, people have stronger support for the daily work of recovery.

This Recovery Month, we celebrate the people doing that work—and the communities that keep showing up beside them. Recovery is REAL: Restoring Every Aspect of Life.

Today, Awakening Recovery joins communities around the world in remembering those lost to overdose and holding close the...
08/31/2026

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/

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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