About this Recovery House
Caspian Home is a men's sober living home in Aurora, Colorado, in Arapahoe County, on East Caspian Place in the southeast quadrant of the city. It is run by Transitions Sober Living, a certified operator that has housed men in recovery across the Denver metro area since 2019. The house works on an all pathways basis, so residents build a program around whichever form of recovery support holds them.
A Men's Sober House on East Caspian Place
This sober house in Aurora serves men only, and that one restriction settles the questions people ask first about shared housing. Bedrooms, bathrooms and common space belong to a single household, and one set of expectations covers everybody living there. East Caspian Place is a residential street in southeast Aurora, inside the East Iliff Avenue corridor and within reach of the retail, food service and warehouse jobs that line South Havana Street and East Colfax Avenue. RTD buses and the H line light rail stations at Iliff and Nine Mile connect the area to downtown Denver and the Anschutz Medical Campus, which matters in the months before owning a car is realistic.
What Colorado Sober Living Certification Establishes
Transitions Sober Living has been certified since 2019 through Ohio Recovery Housing - Colorado, the body the state approves to certify recovery residences and Colorado's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. Certification is the part of a sober house that a family can check from outside. A certified operator agrees in writing to a code of ethics. It discloses fees, house rules and the grounds for discharge before anyone moves in. It keeps a written policy covering relapse, and it accepts a complaint process that runs past the house manager to the certifying body itself. Colorado House Bill 19-1009 ties state recovery housing referrals and public funding to certification by an approved body, so certification also determines which referral networks a house sits inside. Colorado publishes no rating for individual residences, so the useful question is whether the operator holds current certification and will hand over its written policies on request.
Structure and Daily Life in This Aurora Recovery Home
Men arrive expecting a household, and the terms are set before they get there. Applicants must be at least eighteen, submit to drug and alcohol screening, and come willing to participate actively in a recovery program. Anyone carrying an arson conviction or a conviction of a sexual nature is not accepted. Rent covers all utilities, and the house is furnished for people arriving with very little: a fully equipped kitchen, laundry on site, memory foam beds, linens and towels. Residents typically stay between three and twelve months, and there is no ceiling on that for anyone in full compliance. The open ended stay matters, because pressure to leave before a job and a bank balance are steady is what pushes people out of housing too early.
Medication Assisted Recovery Housing and All Pathways Support
A prescription for buprenorphine or methadone is no barrier to living here. Transitions Sober Living describes itself as medication assisted treatment friendly, and it requires attendance at no particular fellowship. A man working a twelve step program keeps working it. A man using SMART Recovery, a faith community, a therapist or a medication protocol stands on the same footing. Losing housing over a prescribed medication often costs a person the medication as well, and Colorado's Behavioral Health Administration maintains the statewide list of certified recovery residences for exactly this kind of comparison.
Recovery Housing in Aurora and Arapahoe County
Aurora is the third largest city in Colorado and the eastern anchor of the Denver metropolitan area, spread across Arapahoe, Adams and Douglas counties. This address falls in the Arapahoe County portion, where Littleton serves as the county seat and the county administers its courts, probation supervision and human services offices. The practical effect on a resident is that a court date, a caseworker appointment and a job interview usually sit inside one transit map. Aurora also holds the Anschutz Medical Campus and a long line of outpatient behavioral health providers along Colfax and Havana. People leaving treatment on the eastern plains or in the smaller Front Range towns often find that Arapahoe County recovery housing is the nearest address within reach of work and clinical care at once.
The Transitions Sober Living Network of Recovery Homes
Caspian Home is one of six residences the operator runs across the Denver metro area, with houses in Aurora and in Denver's Green Valley Ranch neighborhood. A resident who needs a different set of housemates, or a location closer to a new job, can raise it with people who already know him. The company is co-owned and managed by Scott Mounce, who lived in sober living himself for more than a year before going into the business.
Admission Requirements
*18 years of age or older
*Submit to an entry drug/alcohol screening
*Sign a Client Agreement and Contract
*Mentally and physically able to work, volunteer full-time, or attend school. We encourage these activities within two weeks of move-in.
*Willing and motivated to actively participate in a recovery program
*Willing and motivated to maintain sobriety
*Able to financially support housing and personal needs
*Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) friendly
Program fees:
*$150 non-refundable processing fee
*$845 program fee
All prices are subject to change.
What's included:
*All utilities (water, gas, electric, trash, premium cable, high speed Wi-Fi)
*Washer/dryer
*Multiple flat-screen smart TVs
*Fully equipped kitchen
*Comfortable memory foam beds, linens and towels
*Monthly professional cleaning service
What to bring:
*Clothing
*Toiletries, personal items
*Food
