At Puente House, our residents learn that long term recovery is about finding new tools and practicing them in daily life. It would be easy to promote the idea that this is a simple process, but it wouldn’t be honest. The path we share with the men and women who live in Puente House is based on the 12 Steps, successfully used in recovery programs like alcoholics anonymous and narcotics anonymous for the better part of a century. Hundreds of thousands of once hopeless men and women around the world have stayed sober and gone on to embrace life with power, responsibility and courage.