Recovery BLVD Treatment Center in Portland, Oregon

Owners of Recovery Blvd

15 years ago a lifelong friendship began when Autumn and Solara met in their Associates Program at Portland Community College’s Alcohol and Drug Counseling Classes. Both went on to work for the same company at different locations and kept in contact while Solara pursued a Bachelors in Human Development and Autumn a Bachelors in Business Administration. They were reunited in their academic pursuits in a Masters for Business Management Program. They did many projects together, studied and practiced presentations as they completed the program. Solara continued her work at Drug Court and Autumn at a Native American Specific Outpatient. When a company called BLVD hired Solara to run their new Portland location, Solara immediately called Autumn. Together they built a brand and center and bought out the parent company to form what is now - Recovery Blvd. Recovery Blvd is 100% owned by Autumn and Solara and they were able to create innovative therapies and peer culture that skyrocketed Recovery Blvd to the best young adult treatment center available. Autumn said, “Finally we could break down the barriers and long tedious processes of large companies to provide a beautiful center that can help with food, employment, life skills, leadership, self esteem, mental health, college completion, fun activities, teaching young adults recovery can be a lifestyle they love AND addiction therapies and this was unobtainable in traditional treatment centers like we had worked or managed.”

As Counselors with Business degrees Autumn and Solara were in the unique position to balance their desire to help people with a innovative, sustainable treatment center. They have offered hundreds of scholarships (free treatment), re invested monies into the program, pay employees a fair wage and take the Clients out on recreation trips fishing, camping, softball, paintball, to the beach and much more.

Autumn and Solara are both Mothers and they believe that the Clients and their parents understand that when their adult child is at Recovery Blvd they are watched over with a care and responsibility of business owners AND Mothers. This level of attention and engagement has created a Blvd family culture between staff, the Clients and their families. Families and important support people are key to recovery of young adults and one goal of Recovery Blvd has been to empower and foster family healing. Some of Blvd’s young people have lost parents in their short lives, had severe traumas, developed anger/violence as a coping skill, are lost in their life plan or career goals, have used drugs to cope with mental health and as Mothers they felt that these things were just as important as addiction recovery classes. Recovery Blvd addresses the entire YOUNG person because they are in a stage of their life that learning, independence and self determination are key to growth and change.

“Our hope as the owners was to see young people stay sober long term after our program. Entering our fifth year our success rate of a year or more of abstinence was 71% (for Clients that engaged for over 30 days in treatment) and 89% for Clients who graduated. These numbers were pretty shocking when we surveyed because young adults have lower percents of sobriety for over one year than most others. These days our graduates and some that did not complete come in and say hello, bring in their serious significant other, introduce Blvd staff to a spouse, newly born babies, college degrees or just to talk through a life stressor or dilemma. That is how I know we are successful; when a young person comes in with 3 years sober and a life that is flourishing with success and joy,” said Solara.

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