We are housing. We are clear about that.
We provide quality transitional housing where residents can continue working with their own recovery programs, treatment providers, case managers, probation officers, sponsors, or community resources while living in a safe, sober environment.
Our focus is housing, stability, accountability, and providing the time and space necessary to build a stronger future.
What we do
- Provide a furnished bed in a clean, sober, structured home
- Hold the house to its expectations, consistently and for everybody
- Test for drugs and alcohol, at random
- Keep the peace, and keep the place quiet
- Know where people are supposed to be, and notice when they are not
- Work alongside your case manager, sponsor, probation officer or program when you have asked us to
- Confirm residency and attendance to a court or agency when you have given us written permission
- Point you toward services, and help you get to them
What we do not do
- Detox, or any kind of medically supervised withdrawal
- Counseling, therapy, or clinical group sessions
- Diagnose anything, treat anything, or prescribe anything
- Administer or adjust your medication
- Provide nursing, personal care or medical supervision
- Replace your treatment program, your sponsor, your case manager or your doctor
- Accept or pay anyone anything for sending us a resident
Every one of those needs a licensed provider, and several of them need a license we do not hold and are not pretending to.
Why we say it this plainly
Blurring this line is how people get hurt, and how programs get shut down.
In California, providing detox, counseling, group sessions, educational sessions or treatment planning in a residential setting requires a license from the Department of Health Care Services. Doing it without one is an offense, and a house that quietly drifts into it puts its residents at risk as well as itself.
It matters to residents too. Somebody who arrives expecting clinical treatment and finds a sober living home has been misled, and that is a bad start to a hard thing.
So we say what we are, and we make sure the professionals who refer to us know exactly what they are referring to.
If you need treatment first
Call us anyway. We would rather spend twenty minutes helping you find the right level of care than take a bed fee for the wrong one. SAMHSA's free, confidential helpline runs 24 hours a day at 1-800-662-HELP, and findtreatment.gov lists licensed programs near you.
Housing, stability, accountability, and time.
If that is what is missing, this is the right call to make.