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San Pedro, California, United States
SHAWL Women's House
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About SHAWL Women's House
SHAWL (Support for Harbor Area Women’s Lives) is a non-profit residential center located in San Pedro, California. It offers a 4-month structured program for adult women recovering from drug and alcohol addiction. SHAWL helps women heal from substance use, mental health challenges, and domestic violence while working toward independence and stability.
Build Lasting Recovery
Women take part in individual counseling, group therapy, relapse prevention, and life skills classes. Therapies such as art, meditation, anger management, and parenting support help women build confidence, manage stress, and prepare for long-term recovery.
Strengthen Life Skills
Their program includes unique services like job readiness training, HIV/health education, financial literacy, and “Strides in Recovery” exercise groups. SHAWL also offers referrals, court advocacy, and workshops throughout the year. These extras help women rebuild their lives, grow stronger, and stay on track after leaving the program.
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Center Overview
Women only
Women attend treatment in a gender-specific facility, with treatment delivered in a safe, nourishing, and supportive environment for greater comfort.
Treatment Focus
This center primarily treats substance use disorders, helping you stabilize, create relapse-prevention plans, and connect to compassionate support.
Care Options
Treatment
Specializations
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Approaches
Individual Treatment
Individual care meets the needs of each patient, using personalized treatment to provide them the most relevant care and greatest chance of success.
Twelve Step
Incorporating spirituality, community, and responsibility, 12-Step philosophies prioritize the guidance of a Higher Power and a continuation of 12-Step practices.
Therapies
1-on-1 Counseling
Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.
Meditation & Mindfulness
A practiced state of mind that brings patients to the present. It allows them to become fully aware of themselves, their feelings, and the present moment.
Art Therapy
Visual art invites patients to examine the emotions within their work, focusing on the process of creativity and its gentle therapeutic power.
Life Skills
Teaching life skills like cooking, cleaning, clear communication, and even basic math provides a strong foundation for continued recovery.
Recreation Therapy
In recreation therapy, recovery can be joyful. Patients practice social skills and work through emotional triggers by engaging in fun activities.
Relapse Prevention Counseling
Relapse prevention counselors teach patients to recognize the signs of relapse and reduce their risk.
Twelve Step Facilitation
12-Step groups offer a framework for addiction recovery. Members commit to a higher power, recognize their issues, and support each other in the healing process.
Conditions We Treat
Anger
Although anger itself isn't a disorder, it can get out of hand. If this feeling interferes with your relationships and daily functioning, treatment can help.
Codependency
Codependency is a pattern of emotional dependence and controlling behavior. It's most common among people with addicted loved ones.
Trauma
Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."
Substances We Treat
Alcohol
Using alcohol as a coping mechanism, or drinking excessively throughout the week, signals an alcohol use disorder.
Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is the excessive and repetitive use of substances, despite harmful consequences to a person's life, health, and relationships.
Smoking Cessation
Quitting smoking—i.e., ceasing to smoke—means giving up smoking nicotine and tobacco products. This process has very important health benefits.
Aftercare
Experience
Personal Amenities
Activities
Professional Staff
April Del Rio
Program Assistant
Monica Villanueva
Monitor
Sany Rendon
Monitor / Registered Alcohol and Drug Technician
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