03/18/2026
This is what hope looks like.
This morning, a mother named a bed for her son.
Justin Matthew Lutch was an attorney, a graduate of Arizona State University and the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, a competitive tennis player, and a fiercely loyal friend. He was 32 years old when he lost his life to addiction in 2020.
Today, his mother Millie donated $2,500 to ABC Recovery Center’s Building Hope: Furnishing the Future campaign to name a bed in Justin’s memory inside our brand-new 120-bed treatment facility. That bed will be the first safe place someone sleeps when they choose recovery. And it will carry Justin’s name.
What Millie did today is something any family, any friend, any person who has lost someone to this disease can do. She turned grief into a gift that will serve people in recovery for years to come.
Here’s what most people don’t know: the State of California funded the construction of our new facility — but not a single bed, desk, chair, or recovery resource inside it. We need to raise $500,000 to furnish 120 beds and the spaces that will support hundreds of people in recovery each year across the Coachella Valley and Imperial Valley.
You can help:
💙 Donate any amount to furnish someone’s fresh start
💙 Name a bed for $2,500 in honor of someone you love
💙 Start your own fundraising page and rally your community behind a bed or room
👉 Donate: givebutter.com/c/ABCBuildingHope
👉 See an example fundraising page: givebutter.com/c/ABCBuildingHope/members/jamesthomason
Want to create your own fundraising page? Reach out to our Director of Fundraising, Jimmy Thomason, and he’ll help you get started. Call 602-621-5499 or email jthomason@abcrecoverycenter.org
Millie, thank you. Because of you, Justin’s name will greet someone on the hardest and bravest day of their life — the day they choose recovery.
Every bed has a story. Help us tell the next one.