A safe, structured, sober home.
Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, fully furnished, in Taft, California. Not an institution. A house, on a street, with a kitchen table in it.
Our home provides
Fully furnished, so you can arrive with a bag.
- Safe, clean, fully furnished housing
- Drug and alcohol-free living environment
- Structured, respectful household expectations
- Supportive peer community
- Stable housing while residents work toward permanent independence
- A peaceful environment focused on accountability and personal growth
A stepping stone between treatment, homelessness, or unstable housing and independent living.
The living room
Room by room
Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and one kitchen table everybody ends up at.
The bedrooms
Three bedrooms, shared, and furnished before you get here. Every resident has their own bed, storage that belongs to them, and somewhere secure for documents and medication. We match roommates rather than letting people pick, and we will move you if the match turns out wrong.
The kitchen
One kitchen, eight people, and names on the shelves in the fridge. It is fully equipped and residents cook in it themselves. Standing next to somebody chopping onions is where a lot of the real conversation in a sober house actually happens.
The bathrooms
Two full bathrooms, on a morning rotation that goes up on the fridge, cleaned daily by the people who use them.
Outside
A fenced back yard, a patch of lawn, and the only place anyone smokes. With eight people inside, this is where the evening tends to end up and where you go when you need ten minutes on your own. The gate is not locked. This is voluntary housing and you can leave at any time.
The back yard
Fenced all the way round, with a table to sit at.
The yard is fully fenced, gravelled, with a patch of lawn and a picnic table on it. It is not much and we are not going to dress it up as more than it is. It is somewhere to eat outside, somewhere to sit with a coffee before work, and somewhere to stand when the house is loud.
The photographs on this page were taken at the home. We have taken the street number off them on purpose. The address is shared during the intake conversation and not before.
The lawn and the picnic table
Household expectations
Structured and respectful. Short list, no small print.
Every resident goes through these out loud before moving in, and signs a house agreement covering them. They are the same for everybody.
- Stay sober. No alcohol or non-prescribed drugs, on the property or off it
- No violence, no threats, no weapons
- Be working, actively looking for work, or in a program
- Keep your own recovery program going, whatever it is
- Chores done on your day, and the shared spaces left as you found them
- Curfew kept, and guests only in the times and places the house allows
- Random drug and alcohol testing, which you consent to in the house agreement
- Rent paid on time
- What is said in the house stays in the house
What to bring
Less than you think.
- Clothes, and shoes you can work in
- Photo ID
- Any prescribed medication, in the original labeled bottles
- Your phone and charger
- Contact details for your case manager, sponsor, probation officer or outpatient program
- Any paperwork from where you have just been
Taft, California
Quiet, and far enough out that the old phone numbers stop working.
Taft sits in the southwest corner of Kern County, about forty minutes from Bakersfield. Far enough that dropping in on the wrong person takes planning, close enough that work, meetings, courts and county services are all reachable.
We do not publish the street address. People live here, and several of them are working hard not to be found by particular other people. You get the address when you are coming.
Come and see it.
We will walk you through the home before you commit to anything, and you are welcome to bring somebody with you.