Friendly House LA | Recovery Community for Women (Nonprofit)
For too long, women have had to compartmentalize how we love, how we live, and how we heal.
Friendly House is dedicated to ensuring that every woman who walks through our doors has a safe, sober home where she can be seen, heard, and valued as she builds a new life in recovery.
For 75 years, that's been our promise and our legacy.
Our Legacy, Your Solution
Friendly House provides a safe and nurturing sober living home for women building a life in recovery. Through sisterhood, accountability, a strong 12-Step foundation, and an inclusive community of women walking the same path, we empower every resident to reclaim her life, reconnect with her true self, and sustain lasting sobriety, one day at a time.
Offerings include:
12-Step Meetings & Community Groups
Recovery Sponsorship & Mentorship
Structured Sober Living & Personal Accountability
Life Skills Development & Independent Living Preparation
Recovery is a journey taken together.
At Friendly House, you'll find a vibrant, supportive sober living community that feels like family. From shared meals to weekly gatherings and 12-Step fellowship, our home creates safety, lasting connection, and mutual empowerment for women in recovery.
Tour our communities below.
Normandie Sober Living: The Heart of Friendly House
For decades, our home in the heart of Los Angeles has been a safe landing place for women from across the country seeking sober living and 12-step support . The first sober living home created by women, for women, Normandie has welcomed more than 5,000 women through its doors. Our legacy lives within these walls, built on the shoulders of the countless women who healed, grew, and found their way home here.
The Nerine Shatner Sober Living: Friendly House's Second Home
Healing takes time. The Nerine Shatner Friendly House gives women the space, safety, and stability they need to build a new life in recovery, at their own pace and surrounded by support.
Deeply rooted in the 12-Step community, this home opens its doors beyond its residents, including a weekly women's meeting every Thursday that welcomes the wider recovery fellowship. And the location can't be beat: perfectly central, just 20 minutes from the beach, 20 minutes from downtown, and 20 minutes to the Valley, with plenty of parking. For women who are sober and want to be in the middle of it all, there's no better place to call home.
Friendly House is proud to celebrate 75 years of serving women in our community.
Join us at our Anniversary Gala Fundraiser as we honor this milestone and raise the funds needed to continue our vital work.
Click HERE to purchase tickets or become an event sponsor.
The 2026 Friendly House Luncheon Fundraiser
A 75th Anniversary Celebration Honoring Margaret Cho, Jaime Zeluck-Hindlim & More On Saturday, October 17, 2026, we will host our Annual Friendly House Awards Luncheon at The Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills
Join us as we celebrate our 75th year in honoring individuals who are examples to those we serve and who share our desire to empower and strengthen women in these challenging times. Past luncheon honorees include Viola Davis, Quincy Jones, Demi Moore, Lena Dunham, Lucy Hale, John Paul DeJoria, Anthony Hopkins, Dina LaPolt, Angela Manuel Davis,Paul Williams, Paris Jackson and Nick Hexum.
SILENT AUCTION: 11 a.m.
LUNCHEON: 12 p.m.
If you are an alum or treatment provider, please contact Friendly House to purchase tables or tickets: julia@grantevents.com or call 323-904-4400.
Unable to attend but would like to make a contribution? Click here to donate.
If you cannot attend, please consider placing a message in our Digital Tribute Journal. To purchase a Digital Tribute Ad click the tickets icon at the top of this page.
The 2026 Friendly House Luncheon is chaired by Marya Khalil-Otto Greg Sowders Erica Zodtner (Silent Auction Chair)
Non-profit tax I.D. #95-1870626 Friendly Hand Foundation DBA Friendly House LA Social Service permit on file
Who We Serve
Friendly House is a home for all women committed to ongoing sobriety in a caring, supportive environment grounded in the 12-Step program.
We are not a detox or treatment facility. Friendly House is a transitional aftercare home for women who have already completed detox or primary treatment and are ready to build a strong foundation for lasting recovery.
We support women maintaining sobriety from alcohol and substance use, including prescription medications, stimulants, opioids, and other drugs.
Wherever you are in your recovery journey, you'll find structure, community, and a safe place to grow here.
How can we help you?
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at Friendly House LA
At Friendly House, we are deeply committed to sharing space with women of all expressions. Whatever your background, belief, identity, or culture, you belong here. What matters most to us is not where you come from or how you got here, but your willingness to get sober and build a new life, one step at a time.
The Friendly House LA Mission
A community-based nonprofit organization (EIN: 95-1870626)
At Friendly House, our mission is to inspire and empower women of all gender experiences on their journey to recovery. Our program offers a blend of cultural wisdom and community support in an inclusive space. We aim to restore dignity and foster resilience, providing the tools and support needed to heal trauma patterns that often serve as barriers to a sustainable recovery lifestyle through the 12-Step lens.
Why Choose Friendly House Los Angeles?
No sober living community has served women in 12-Step recovery longer than Friendly House. Created by women, for women, we have spent more than 75 years proving what's possible when women support women in sobriety.
Watch the video below to hear what makes Friendly House Los Angeles so special from our CEO Christina Simos, an alum of the program herself.
Join the Friendly House LA Community
No one recovers alone. If you need help, that starts right now. Reach out to be connected to a deeply caring, kind, and welcoming member of our team. Let us show you what it feels like to be seen and heard for the first time. Let us introduce you to Friendly House LA (EIN: 95-1870626).