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About this Sober House

TLC Sober House is a sober living home in Phoenix, Arizona, in Maricopa County, in the Sunnyslope neighborhood along 11th Avenue. Transitional Living Communities operates the house as part of a peer-run recovery network it has built across the Phoenix area since the early 1990s.

A Sober Living Home in Sunnyslope

Sunnyslope is one of Phoenix's older neighborhoods, built along the base of the North Mountains northwest of downtown, and 11th Avenue runs through its residential core. The area carries a mix of small apartment buildings and single-family homes, with bus service on the Cave Creek Road and 7th Street corridors connecting residents to central Phoenix without a car.

What Residents Work Toward at Transitional Living Communities

The house follows the same three-stage system Transitional Living Communities runs at all its Arizona homes. A new resident starts with restricted movement, leaving only for meetings or a job search. Steady employment, a sponsor and a home group earn a move to Level One, and thirty days of compliance with no unpaid fees earns Level Two, which loosens curfew and adds overnight and weekend passes. The stages exist to give structure meaning: freedom increases as responsibility is demonstrated, not assumed.

Peer Counseling and the Recovery Work Behind the Curfew

Beyond curfews, Transitional Living Communities asks residents to put in the work that curfews alone cannot measure. The organization suggests a twelve-week study of the Big Book, ninety twelve-step meetings in ninety days, an eight-week relapse prevention class, and four hours of peer counseling every week, with drug screening built into the program at the resident's own expense. None of it is clinical treatment. It is a structured peer framework built by people who have already been through it.

Recovery Housing in Phoenix and Maricopa County

Phoenix is the state capital and by far the largest city in Maricopa County, and that scale gives a Sunnyslope resident options a smaller town cannot: a deep outpatient treatment network, community college campuses, and a labor market wide enough to support the thirty-day job requirement most sober living programs in the area expect. Recovery housing in Phoenix draws from across the Valley precisely because the city carries this concentration of services.

Certification and Licensing for Arizona Sober Homes

Arizona runs two separate credentialing systems for this kind of housing. The state licenses sober living homes through the Arizona Department of Health Services, and the Arizona Recovery Housing Association separately certifies individual residences that meet its code of ethics. The two are not interchangeable, and a family evaluating any Arizona sober home should ask which credential, if either, the specific address carries.

Other Transitional Living Communities Sober Homes

TLC Sober House is one of several homes Transitional Living Communities runs across Arizona. Dana House sits on Dana Avenue in Mesa, AJ House is on San Marcos Drive in Apache Junction, TLC Thurber House is on Thurber Road in Tucson, and Recovery Casa Grande is on East 2nd Street in Casa Grande. A resident who later needs a different city can move within an organization that already has their history.

More on The Sober House REQUIREMENTS: Recovery House Clients must:    ​​ -Complete a 12 week Big Book study.   -Attend 90 12-step meetings in 90 days.   Attend an 8-week relapse prevention class    Submit to a drug screen, upon demand, at their expense.   Attend 4 hours of in-house peer counseling each week.  WHO GETS IN:  TLC accepts any substance abuser who asks for help, whether they have money or not,  with a few exceptions. The program doesn't accept arsonists, sexual offenders - such as rapists or child molesters. Those with TB or active hepatitis, are not accepted. HIV positive applicants are accepted