Anchor House Men's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Anchor House is a men's sober living home in Aurora, Colorado, in Arapahoe County, and it is the phase one residence in the Aurora Sober Living network. Phase one is the entry point, where a man arriving from detox, residential treatment or jail lands first.

Phase One Men's Recovery Housing

A phased network puts the tightest structure at the front end, and that is the point of this house. Men move in when their routine is newest and least tested, and the expectations are built for that stage. Progress does not mean leaving. It means moving to a house inside the same network that assumes a man is already holding a job and a schedule. Nobody has to find a new landlord and explain a recovery history to a stranger to take a step forward.

A Men's Sober House in Aurora

Everyone living here is a man in recovery. Single-gender housing takes a set of questions off the table permanently, and it lets one set of rules govern the entire household. The operator keeps its men's and women's residences at separate addresses across the city, so the split holds at the house level and not just on paper.

Certification of This Colorado Recovery Residence

The house is listed as certified in Colorado's statewide directory, maintained by ORH-CO, the certifying body approved by the state Behavioral Health Administration and Colorado's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. Certification commits a residence to writing down its fees and rules before anyone moves in, keeping a written relapse and discharge policy, working under a published code of ethics, and answering complaints reviewed outside the house. House Bill 19-1009 makes that certification the condition for accepting state referrals and state funding. Colorado publishes no street address for certified residences, so placement runs through the operator.

Medication and Cost in This Sober Living Home

Medication-assisted treatment is supported across this operator's residences, and rent subsidy is listed as available. Programming is not faith-based. For a man leaving treatment on buprenorphine with no savings, those three lines decide whether an application is worth filing at all.

Sober Living in Aurora and Arapahoe County

Aurora is the third-largest city in Colorado and covers the eastern side of the Denver metropolitan area. The Anschutz Medical Campus draws outpatient providers and health-sector jobs to the north of the city, RTD light rail runs the I-225 corridor, and Colfax Avenue carries bus service the full width of Aurora. Littleton is the seat of Arapahoe County. A man at phase one usually has no car, and that is exactly the situation this geography is forgiving of.