Amity FoundationResidential Treatment in Los Angeles, CA
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Amity Foundation is a California 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 1981 in Tucson, Arizona that serves individuals, families, and children. Originally established as a therapeutic community, Amity has evolved into a teaching community dedicated to the inclusion and habilitation of people marginalized by addiction, trauma, criminality, incarceration, poverty, racism, sexism, homelessness, and violence. The organization operates residential campuses in Arizona and California where participants engage in therapeutic community living while working to reclaim their heritage and personal history. Amity's approach emphasizes personal growth, emotional literacy, social responsibility, physical health through nutrition and wellness, and restorative justice principles. The organization works across the criminal justice spectrum through prevention, pre-arrest intervention, services for people experiencing homelessness, in-jail programs, and in-prison treatment readiness methods to help prepare individuals for reintegration into communities. Amity is committed to research, development, and dissemination of information regarding community building and improving health while promoting environmental, social, and economic justice.
Role
Residential Treatment
Specialties & focus areas
Recovery focus
Co-occurring
Evidence-based approaches
Trauma-informed care
Trauma-Informed Care. Approaches addiction as something layered on top of unprocessed trauma, not in isolation. Pacing matters more than confrontation.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention. Practices noticing urges without acting on them, building the gap between trigger and choice.
Family systems
Family Systems work. Brings the people closest to you into the recovery picture, since urges and relationships rarely live in separate boxes.
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