About us
Art House Pasadena’s (AHP) mission is to provide safe and culturally affirming wellness and recovery housing with linkages to supportive services to assist in the recovery process.
Our vision is to foster an artistically freeing environment that opens the door for AHP guests to unblock their creative inner self, connect with their respective communities and create the lives they always dreamed they could have. For entities positioned to embrace the new housing programs being offered by Medi-Cal, as well as the myriad of public and private funding streams available to address homelessness and other substance abuse issues, we may be exactly the type of partner you are looking for.
12 Step Institute
Located on the grounds of Art House Pasadena (AHP) is the 12-Step Institute. The Institute offers a number of innovative opportunities, such as the Zonr social media platform and community engagement linkages with community partners like the AT Center. AHP also owes a great debt of gratitude to the Institute and local civic leadership for helping our 20-bed residential care facility to retain its ongoing business license for the past 40 years. As a result, we have been able to maintain the highly coveted FGSP RM-16 zoning classification. A grandfathered status which exempts us from the 6-bed limitation for new facilities in the city of Pasadena and also affords us the capacity to offer limited medical services and retain our medical records on-site.
History of Helping Our Community
Art House Pasadena is embedded in the heart of an ethnically diverse, working class neighborhood, and has historically provided essential services as a key member of the community. Today, Art House is the culmination of decades of longstanding collaborations within the local neighborhood.
This special property has provided public health residential care since the 1940s, when Pasadena pioneered the relatively new but previously controversial practice of chiropractic care, offered to our soldiers coming home from the war. Then in the 1960s and 70s, when the first baby boomers needed to convalesce, those needs were met here as well. During the 1980s until 2000, when the developmentally disabled were transitioned from locked facilities to living within communities, our family took over the property and we became state-licensed to provide for their needs. And finally by the year 2000, as the drug abuse crisis started to rise, so did our capacity for change and ability to adapt to the new model of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) care.
Our Wellness Environment
Nestled at the base of the San Gabriel mountains, Art House Pasadena rests at one of the highest elevations in the Crown City of Pasadena. This half-acre property retains much of its 1920’s charm with old growth trees, expansive lawns and a refurbished original water-fountain as the centerpiece of our emerging meditation garden and fruit tree grove. Should outpatient substance abuse or other medical needs be required, the newly refurbished Pasadena Public Health (conveniently located just 2 blocks up the street) is ready to be of service.