About this Recovery House
Aurora Sober Living is a sober living operation in Aurora, Colorado, in Arapahoe County, running gender-separate recovery homes across the city. Its houses are certified in Colorado's statewide recovery residence directory, and its portfolio covers both men and women.
Men's and Women's Sober Homes in Aurora
Every residence in this network is single-gender, and the operator maintains separate men's and women's houses. It describes them as affordable, furnished and clean, which is the honest description of what the model provides: a bed, a household, and a set of rules that apply to everyone under the roof. Placement runs through the operator, so an applicant is considered against the whole portfolio instead of one address.
What Colorado Certification Establishes for a Recovery Residence
Colorado's certified residences are listed 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 binds a residence to a code of ethics, to disclosing fees and house rules in writing before move-in, to a written relapse and discharge policy, and to a complaint process someone outside the house reviews. Under House Bill 19-1009, only a residence certified by an approved body can take state referrals and funding. This operator's houses appear in that directory.
Medication and Subsidy in This Recovery Housing Network
The state directory records medication-assisted treatment as supported across these residences and rent subsidy as available. Both are decision-grade facts. The first determines whether someone on buprenorphine or methadone keeps their medication and their bed. The second determines whether the rent is reachable on the wages a new resident is likely to be earning in the first months. Programming is not faith-based, and family housing is not offered.
Aurora Recovery Housing and Arapahoe County
Aurora is the third-largest city in Colorado and the eastern half of the Denver metropolitan area, with its own courts, hospital campus and transit spine. The Anschutz Medical Campus draws outpatient providers and jobs to the northern side of the city, RTD light rail runs the I-225 corridor, and Colfax Avenue carries bus service east to west across the whole city. Littleton is the seat of Arapahoe County. The concentration of Arapahoe County recovery housing in Aurora follows the same logic a resident does: this is where the jobs, the treatment and the buses are.
Applying to an Aurora Sober House
Applications go to the operator, and the questions to ask are the ones certification obliges an answer to. What the weekly rate covers and what it does not. Whether a house manager lives on site. How long a resident can stay. What happens after a relapse. Whether the house being offered is the men's or women's side, and what the wait looks like if it is full.
Our Requirements
You Must Meet These Criteria
18+ in age.
Mentally and physically able to work. Also, volunteer, or go to school.
Able to meet the costs of housing. In addition to personal needs.
Must provide a clean UA and BA drug screening upon entry of the program.
Is not prescribed any medications that are considered controlled substances (i.e.. Ambien, Adderall, Xanax, etc.).
Willing and motivated to maintain participation within the sober living community.
Also, willing and motivated to participate actively in a 12-Step program.
In addition, committed to participate fully in the Aurora Sober Living Program.
Other things we offer
Community Relations
-A clothing and shoe donation.
-Speakers and leaders in the recovery community. Also, Vocational assistance and support.
-Recreational activities (sports, hiking, camping, etc.)
-Also, holiday get together's with family and friends
