About this Recovery Home
OP House is a coed sober living home on South Park Street in Little Rock, Arkansas, the seat of Pulaski County. Gyst House, Inc. operates it as the second of its two recovery homes in the city.
A Coed Sober Living Home Near Downtown Little Rock
South Park Street runs through the older neighborhoods just south of downtown Little Rock, in the 72202 ZIP that also covers the state Capitol, the Clinton Presidential Center and the central business district. This is the most walkable part of the city. The county courthouse, the state offices that issue identification documents, several outpatient behavioral health providers and the main Rock Region METRO transfer point are all within a short distance. For someone whose first thirty days out of treatment or jail involve a probation appointment, a replacement ID and a job application, that concentration saves days.
How Gyst House, Inc. Organizes Its Recovery Homes
The organization runs two coed houses in Little Rock, one near downtown and one in the southwest quadrant of the city. Two addresses inside one bus system is a small footprint that does one useful thing: a resident who needs to move for a job, or who needs a different set of housemates, can raise it with people who already know him and stay in the same city. Admissions for both houses run through the same organization.
What Voluntary Certification Buys in Arkansas Sober Living
Certification of recovery residences in Arkansas is voluntary and is administered by the Arkansas Alliance of Recovery Residences. The state itself does not license this kind of housing. Where a house does hold certification, it has agreed to a published code of ethics, to handing an applicant its fees and rules in writing before move-in, to keeping a written relapse and discharge policy, and to an outside complaint process. Those four commitments are a good checklist to run against any Little Rock recovery residence, certified or otherwise, because a well-run house can satisfy all four whether or not it has paid for a certificate.
Central Little Rock and Pulaski County Recovery Residences
Pulaski County holds the largest share of Arkansas's recovery housing, its treatment capacity and its entry-level employment. Little Rock is the county seat and the state capital, and the Arkansas River separates it from North Little Rock, which is part of the same metro and the same bus system. People come here from the Delta, the Ouachitas and the small towns along I-40 and I-30 because for much of Arkansas this is the closest place where housing, work, treatment and the court system are all in one city.
Questions for This Little Rock Sober House
Applications go through Gyst House, Inc. Ask what the weekly fee is and what it covers, whether a deposit is required and whether it is refundable, how many people live in the house, whether a house manager lives on site, what the curfew and drug testing policies are, how bedrooms are assigned in a coed house, how soon a resident is expected to be working, and whether prescribed medication for opioid use disorder is accepted. Ask what happens after a relapse. Get it in writing.
