Somewhere worth coming home to.
Kokoro is three structured sober living properties in the west San Fernando Valley, and everything is brand new, from the homes to the furniture. Full-size beds, never bunks. A pool, a basketball court, and an acre of ranch with horses. The kind of place that makes staying easier than leaving.
Why Kokoro
Heart, mind and spirit, treated as one thing.
Kokoro is the Japanese word for exactly that: the idea that you can’t fix one part of a person and call it done.
Most sober living is sold on structure. Structure matters, and we have plenty of it. But the thing that actually keeps somebody in a house past the first hard week is whether the house is somewhere they can stand to be.
So we started there. Every guest gets a full-size bed, not a bunk, not a cot. Their own dresser. Closet space that is theirs. A desk with a real monitor, because job-hunting from a phone is miserable. Common rooms big enough that you can be around people without being on top of them. Outdoor space at every house, and at one of them, a full acre with a pool and horses.
None of that is a substitute for the work. It just removes every excuse not to do it.
Our Homes
Three houses. Each one different on purpose.
Nobody thrives in the same environment. So we don’t run one house three times, we run three houses, and we’ll tell you honestly which one fits.
Community Street
The ranch. One acre with horses, the pool, and the most social of the three.
See the house
Nevada Avenue
Our second men’s house. Quieter than the ranch, close-knit by design.
See the house
Deveron Ridge
Our women’s residence. The quietest place we have, women only with no exceptions.
See the houseThe standard
What’s in every house, without asking.
Not upgrades. Not the “premium” room. This is the floor.
Everything is brand new, the homes and the furniture
Brand-new construction or full renovations, and brand-new furniture throughout. People deserve to rebuild their lives somewhere clean, modern and dignified, that’s the standard, not the upgrade.
A full-size bed, never a bunk
Every guest, every house. A real bed, your own dresser, and storage with your name on it. No bunk beds, anywhere, ever.
Computers, printers and fast internet
Job applications, coursework, resumes, telehealth, paperwork, the tools for independence are in the house, not at a library across town.
Room to actually live
One acre at Community with horses, a pool, jacuzzi, basketball court, weights, a vegetable garden and a rescued-animal sanctuary; a planted garden at Nevada; the quiet of West Hills at Deveron Ridge, plus patios and outdoor gathering areas at every house.
A kitchen built for cooking
Full-size appliances, real counter space, and enough of it that four people can be in there at once. Guests cook. Learning to feed yourself again is not a small part of this.
Utilities, wifi and laundry included
One rate, no surprise line items. See Admissions & Cost for exactly what is and isn’t covered.
Structure
The part that isn’t comfortable.
A beautiful house with no expectations is just an expensive place to relapse. So there are rules, they are written down, and they are enforced the same way for everybody.
Weekly and random drug and alcohol testing
Everyone tests at the Sunday-night house meeting, random tests land any other day, and refusal counts as a positive. Full protocol is published, we don’t make you ask. Read it.
Curfew, and a house manager who keeps it
10pm every night for the first 30 days; midnight weeknights and 1am Friday and Saturday after that. Someone is responsible for the house, and they live there.
Meetings, every week
Outside recovery meetings, plus the Sunday-night house meeting where the whole house talks, the household, the friction, the wins, and a monthly gathering of the wider community. We don’t require any particular fellowship and we have no affiliated outpatient provider you’re obligated to attend.
Work, school, or something
After a settling-in period, guests are expected to be doing something with their days. Employment, school, volunteering, treatment, we’re not precious about which.
Chores, and paying rent on time
Unglamorous and non-negotiable. A house runs on whether people do the dishes.
Programming, layered on top of the housing.
Over the coming months we’re adding structured programming to every house: a defined intake and orientation process, goal setting, housing placement for the step after Kokoro, CBI, a 26-lesson life skills curriculum, the PIE curriculum on family dynamics, 12 Step support and job readiness, alongside counselling access through licensed partner providers.
None of it is running yet, which is exactly why it says coming soon. The full list, and where each one stands, is published.
Intake & orientation
A defined front door, and the right level of care from day one.
Goal setting
Short and long term, aimed at independent living.
Housing placement
Somewhere stable to go next, not just a move-out date.
CBI
Cognitive Behavior Intervention, in structured peer-led sessions.
Straight answers
We publish what most houses won’t.
The rules, the testing protocol, the medication policy, who we’re not right for, published before you ever call. Here is everything you’d otherwise have to pry out of a sober living.
No security deposit, and a straight number in one call
Every placement differs, private pay, nonprofit and government funding all work here. Plus the honest answer on insurance.
Admissions & cost Medication & MATWhere we stand on Suboxone, Vivitrol and psych meds
Written out, in full, including who we are and aren’t the right level for.
Medication policy TestingHow often we test and what happens on a positive
Frequency, panel, collection method, and the relapse protocol, including where someone goes.
Testing protocol House rulesThe whole list, before you sign anything
Curfew, guests, phones, cars, relationships, and what gets someone asked to leave.
House rules FitWho we’re not right for
We’d rather tell you in one phone call than take a deposit and find out in a week.
Read this first OpeningsToday’s availability, one call away
We don’t post bed counts that go stale, you get the real answer from a real person, usually within the hour.
Check availabilityWalk through first
See the house before you ever pick up the phone.
Every Kokoro house is being captured in full 360°, room by room, bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen, common areas, the yard. You can walk the entire property from your kitchen table at two in the morning, which is usually when families are actually looking.
Tours are shot with the houses empty and staged. No guest appears in any photograph or tour on this site, ever.
“This isn’t simply a bed. It’s a well-designed environment built to support someone’s next chapter.”
Kokoro Recovery Residence
There’s a page written for you, the first 72 hours, what you’ll hear from us, and the questions families ask first.
Placing a client? Current availability, the full facts sheet, and our medication policy are one click away.
Call and ask us anything. We’ll tell you the truth, including when we’re not the right place.
No call center, no intake script, no pressure. A real conversation about whether this fits, and if it doesn’t, where else to look.
Calls and texts answered by our team, seven days a week.