5A Craig Shell's New Solution Coed Sober House

About this Sober House

5A Craig Shell's New Solution is a coed sober living home in Phoenix, Arizona, in Maricopa County, run by 5A, the Alcoholism & Addiction Assistance Association, which has operated recovery housing in the city since 1968.

A Coed Sober House on 23rd Avenue

This is one of the few coed sober houses 5A runs in Phoenix, housing men and women under one roof with rules that apply equally to both. 23rd Avenue sits in a residential section of central Phoenix, close to the same outpatient providers and meeting halls that serve the operator's other house across town.

Running Since 2004

Craig Shell's New Solution has operated at this address since 2004, giving it two decades of history at one location, longer than most sober houses in the Phoenix market stay open under one name. The house provides two meals a day and transportation to meetings held elsewhere, which keeps residents connected to recovery support without requiring a car from day one.

Built for Life After Inpatient Treatment

The house is designed for people coming directly out of inpatient rehab, and residents keep daytime freedom to come and go once they are working or in a program on their own schedule. Full-time employment, school or steady volunteering and regular attendance at 12-step meetings are the baseline expectations, and the house holds coed residents to the same standard rather than running separate rules for each side of the building.

Recovery Housing in Maricopa County

Phoenix anchors Maricopa County's job market and its outpatient treatment network, and a coed sober house inside the city gives a mixed household of residents access to that network without splitting between two addresses in two different parts of town.

Part of the 5A Network in Phoenix

5A also operates Hope House, a men's residence elsewhere in Phoenix that has run since 1968. Between the two houses, 5A can place a coed household here or a single man at Hope House, and a resident who needs a different setting can move between them without changing operators.

More on the Sober House The road to living a fully sober and whole life is not smooth and is not traveled quickly. It can have bumps and potholes and dangerous twists. But with the security of Craig Shell's New Solution, you can have help on that journey. The supportive staff understands how difficult it can be. And they are eager to serve those who are ready to commit to a new life of sobriety. When the intensity of inpatient rehab ends, the New Solution is a perfect next step.