Now accepting referrals · Los Angeles & San Bernardino Counties
A women’s recovery residence for survivors who need somewhere to live — not a crisis bed for tonight, but a real address for the months after.
If you are in danger right now, this page is not the right place. Call 911. The National Domestic Violence Hotline is 1-800-799-7233, 24 hours. In Los Angeles County the DV hotline is 1-800-978-3600. In San Bernardino County, Option House runs a 24-hour crisis line at (909) 381-3471. Those services can place you tonight. We cannot.
Her Aria is a women’s recovery residence. It is alcohol- and drug-free, women only, private and gated, and it is a place to live while you rebuild. Many of the women we house are leaving an abusive home rather than a treatment programme, and for them the housing question is the whole question — because the practical alternative to a bed is often going back to the person they left.
We are not a licensed domestic violence shelter. That distinction matters, so here it is without hedging. We do not provide protective services, security services, legal advocacy, restraining order assistance, safety planning, or confidential-location protections of the kind a licensed shelter is built to provide. We do not have staff awake overnight. We do not screen or monitor visitors on your behalf. Those things stay with your own advocate, attorney, and law enforcement agency, and a licensed shelter is the right place for them.
What we do is narrower and, in the months after a shelter stay ends, often the missing piece: a stable address, a bed of your own in a shared room, all utilities, Wi-Fi and laundry included, and other women in the house doing the same work.
One thing we do hold firmly: we do not publish the address of the house anywhere. It is not on this website, not in our business listing, and not in any directory. It is given only to accepted residents and to the agencies that refer them.
Emergency shelters are short by design. A survivor typically has weeks, not months, and the question at the end of it is the same one she had at the start: where do I actually live now. Rapid rehousing and Housing First programmes exist for exactly this gap, and a caseworker holding flexible funds usually needs a landlord or a residence willing to take the placement.
That is the role we are built for. We take referrals from domestic violence agencies, hospital social workers, county behavioural health, probation, victim services, and treatment programmes across both counties.
It is a fair question and it deserves a specific answer rather than a slogan, so here is exactly what the house has and what it does not.
What is actually in place. The property is gated, with off-street parking, in a quiet residential neighbourhood. There are cameras at the perimeter and a video doorbell, monitored by the house — never in a bedroom, never in a bathroom. The house is alcohol- and drug-free and women only. And the address is never published: not on this site, not in our business listing, not in any directory. It is given only to accepted residents and to the agencies that refer them.
What is not in place. There is no overnight awake staff, no security guard, no controlled-access screening of visitors on your behalf, and no confidential-location programme of the kind a licensed shelter operates. We are not a licensed domestic violence shelter and do not provide protective services, legal advocacy, restraining order assistance or safety planning.
So: a sober, gated, women-only home with an unpublished address, run by people who understand why that matters. If what you need is a protected location with trained safety staff, a licensed shelter is the right call and we will say so.
Survivors rarely pay a residency fee out of pocket, and they should not have to. Several channels exist, and a referring advocate usually knows which one applies:
California Victim Compensation Board relocation assistance can pay housing costs for a victim of a qualifying crime. Cal OES domestic violence grant subrecipients hold flexible housing funds and employ housing coordinators whose job is finding residences willing to take survivors. Rapid rehousing and Housing First programmes in both counties can cover a residency fee directly. County Transitional Assistance offices handle CalFresh and Medi-Cal, which frees a resident’s own income for housing.
We are not a certified provider under any of these programmes and do not claim to be. We are a residence that will take the placement and invoice whoever is paying. More for referral partners.
The house is in San Bernardino County and we take referrals from both. Survivors are often placed deliberately away from the city they left, and distance is sometimes the point rather than a drawback.
Agencies we regularly work alongside include Option House in San Bernardino, 24-hour line (909) 381-3471; the YWCA of San Gabriel Valley, (626) 960-2995, 24-hour line (626) 967-0658; Peace Over Violence, (626) 584-6191, 24-hour line (626) 793-3385; House of Ruth, (909) 623-4364, 24-hour line (877) 988-5559; and the East Los Angeles Women’s Center, (323) 526-5819, 24-hour line (800) 585-6231.
Victim services: the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Bureau of Victim Services is (800) 380-3811, and San Bernardino County District Attorney Victim Services is (909) 382-3846.
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If you are an advocate, caseworker, housing coordinator or social worker with a woman who needs housing, the fastest route is the referral form or a phone call to (909) 817-1507. Email referrals@heraria.com.
If you are a survivor looking for yourself, you are welcome to ask about a bed directly. You do not need an agency to refer you.
We will tell you honestly and quickly whether we are the right fit. If we are not, we will say so rather than take a placement that will not hold.
