Allison House Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Allison House is a certified women's recovery residence in Aurora, Colorado, in Arapahoe County, one of the women's sober homes operated by Zen Mountain Sober Living across the south and east Denver metropolitan area.

The Layout of This Women's Sober House

The house has a renovated kitchen, two sitting areas and an office loft, and the operator has given it a consistent interior theme. The loft matters more than it sounds like. A resident enrolling in classes, filling out job applications or working through a case management packet needs a table and a door, and a house where the only options are a bedroom and a shared television is a house where that work does not get done.

A Women's Recovery Home in Aurora

This is women-only housing. Residents keep their own prescribers, therapists and meetings, and the household runs on shared responsibility for the property. The operator describes each of its houses individually and is direct that they differ in size, atmosphere and average age, which lets an applicant ask for a fit instead of taking whatever is open.

Certified Sober Living in Colorado

Allison House appears as a certified residence in the statewide directory maintained by ORH-CO, the certifying body approved by Colorado's Behavioral Health Administration and the state affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. Certification attaches to the individual residence and requires fees and rules in writing before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, a code of ethics, and an external complaint route. House Bill 19-1009 requires it before a residence can take state referrals or funding.

Medication and Cost in This Recovery Housing

Medication-assisted treatment is supported across these residences, and rent subsidy is listed as available. Programming is not faith-based, and family housing is not offered.

Aurora and Arapahoe County Sober Homes

Aurora is Colorado's third-largest city, on the eastern side of the Denver metro, with the Anschutz Medical Campus to the north, RTD light rail on the I-225 corridor, and Littleton as the Arapahoe County seat. The operator's other women's houses sit in Aurora, Centennial and near the Denver Tech Center, all inside the same transit and employment map, so a transfer later changes the housemates and not the commute.