Alcoholism Center For Women (Los Angeles) | Flagship SUD Treatment

By SoCal Addiction Centers Editorial Team | Last reviewed: | 4 min read Clinically Reviewed

Alcoholism Center For Women — Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

Alcoholism Center for Women at 1135 South Alvarado Street in Los Angeles is a 32-bed flagship women-specific residential facility with a multi-decade operating history serving women with alcohol use disorder and co-occurring SUD presentations. Trauma-integrated care is central to the clinical model. Meets our four-signal flagship bar: DHCS license, SAMHSA 2025 match, CARF accreditation for Intensive Outpatient Treatment (BH) and Outpatient Treatment (BH), and multi-LOC framing via the combined DHCS-residential + CARF-outpatient scope.

What makes this facility flagship tier

Our flagship tier requires four independent verification signals. Alcoholism Center For Women clears all four.

DHCS license: active at the time of our most recent review. License number 190002BN, expiration 2/28/2027. Program authorization: residential treatment with detoxification services.

CARF SUD-specific accreditation: see dedicated section below for specific program details.

SAMHSA 2025 National Directory: matched.

Multi-level of care: evaluated against the operator’s program scope, whether across DHCS program codes, CARF-accredited programs, or co-located operator sites.

Clinical program overview

Women-specific residential programming at 32-bed scale, with CARF-accredited IOP and Outpatient components providing a stepdown pathway from residential into continuing outpatient care. Clinical framework emphasizes trauma-informed care, evidence-based therapies (CBT, Seeking Safety, EMDR where appropriate), peer-recovery-support integration given the facility’s deep community-recovery roots, and aftercare planning aligned with LA County recovery-community resources. The women-specific orientation addresses clinical realities — higher trauma prevalence, co-occurring PTSD, parenting responsibilities, domestic-violence histories — that mixed-gender facilities sometimes under-serve.

Who this facility is a good fit for

Serves women with alcohol use disorder and broader SUD presentations, particularly those for whom trauma-informed women-specific programming is clinically appropriate. Accepts commercial insurance and private-pay; DMC-ODS arrangements vary. Appropriate for mid-severity clinical presentations requiring residential stabilization followed by IOP/Outpatient continuation in the same operator framework.

Location and geography

1135 South Alvarado Street is in central LA near MacArthur Park — a dense urban residential geography serving central LA, Koreatown, and downtown-adjacent communities. The location provides access for women in urban LA neighborhoods where treatment continuity and community proximity matter for aftercare engagement.

CARF accreditation

Alcoholism Center For Women holds current CARF International accreditation for SUD-specific programming — specifically: Intensive Outpatient Treatment (BH), Outpatient Treatment (BH). CARF accreditation is a voluntary third-party clinical quality review covering program design, clinical outcomes measurement, health and safety, governance, and continuous improvement. It is not a regulatory requirement for California SUD treatment operation but signals operator investment in an independent quality-assurance process that many DHCS-licensed facilities do not pursue.

Families evaluating Alcoholism Center For Women can confirm current CARF accreditation status and program scope directly at the CARF provider search.

DHCS licensure detail

Alcoholism Center For Women operates under DHCS certification 190002BN (Licensed and Certified), authorized for residential treatment with detoxification services. Treatment capacity per DHCS records: 32 beds. The license is current through 2/28/2027.

DHCS enforcement records should be checked for any specific facility before admission. Our DHCS license verification walkthrough provides the tool-based methodology.

SAMHSA National Directory

Alcoholism Center For Women appears in the SAMHSA 2025 National Directory of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Facilities, providing cross-source verification from a federal registry independent of both CARF and DHCS. SAMHSA directory presence is one of the four independent verification signals our flagship tier requires.

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