“Sober living is a way of life that has shown me how to have fun in sobriety while having responsibilities. It’s given me a chance to be me, make mistakes, change and grow to help others that are just coming in the houses.” — Resident
“It’s a wonderful place. It helps keep you accountable and is a huge part of my recovery. I wouldn’t pick anywhere else because these houses are now my family.” — Resident
Progress, Not Perfection.
In Sober Living, you have the opportunity to develop healthy life-long understanding and effectiveness in sobriety, practice your tools learned from Treatment and your 12 step recovery program, like, setting healthy boundaries, coping skills, accountability, self worth, confidence, humility, having fun without substances, build a recovery network for yourself, establish foundation for the rest of your recovery journey, gradually and continuously change alcoholic and addict behaviors to recovery behaviors.
What Does The Sober Living Lifestyle En-tale?
Sober living homes are affordable, alcohol and drug free environments that provide a positive place for peer group recovery support. Sober housing promotes individual recovery by providing an environment that allows the residents to develop individual recovery programs and become self supporting.
Quality assurance is achieved and maintained through membership in a sober living coalition or network. These coalitions and networks proved self-governance and self-regulation through peer reviews and inspections. Clients are required to meet excellent standards in health, safety and management guidelines. The homes maintain alcohol and drug free environments with resident initiated and maintained recovery support activities.
The majority of sober living homes are privately owned and operated by an individual or small partnership. Ours is not an acute detoxification or treatment center but we have a referral listing of detoxification hospitals and outpatient treatment centers.
The typical sober living home is a single-family residence, duplex or multi-unit complex located in a quiet residential neighborhood. The residents are required to follow a strict set of house rules. Violation of the rules can result in assessment of minor financial fines, to immediate ejection from the home for use of alcohol or drug and /or fighting.
The single most common rule is a zero tolerance for drugs and alcohol. Our sober living homes do random or surprise drug and alcohol testing and random room searches. Not submitting to our tests will result in immediate termination.
Other zero tolerance rules include, volatile attitudes, bullying, prejudice, violence, threats of violence, fighting, harassment, theft, fraternizing and sex on the premises and unexcused absence or violation of curfews.
Each resident is required to be financially self-supporting, paying their own rent, and purchasing their own food. The residents are required to work, actively seek employment, volunteer or be a student enrolled in an accredited academic or trade school. Those who are permanently disabled and on federal, state, or local assistance are required to become involved in service to the home or the community. All residents are required to attend a minimum number of daily 12 Step meetings, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, or Cocaine Anonymous, etc.
Living is very communal in a sober living home. Our homes are all 4 private bedroom with individual bathrooms and with a communal living room, kitchen, and laundry room. Sober Living homes are gender specific.