Incentives Recovery House Men's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Incentives Recovery House is a men's sober house in Boca Raton, Florida, in Palm Beach County. It sits on Northwest 15th Avenue, in the residential grid west of Interstate 95 and a short distance from Florida Atlantic University.

A Men's Sober House on Northwest 15th Avenue

The house serves men, which settles the shape of the household before anyone moves in: one set of rules, single-gender common space and housemates working the same set of problems. Boca Raton's northwest quadrant is low-rise and residential, laid out on the numbered avenue grid that runs between Glades Road and Yamato Road. Palm Tran buses cover Glades Road and Dixie Highway, and the Boca Raton Tri-Rail station puts West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale within a single train ride.

Recovery Housing in Boca Raton and Palm Beach County

Palm Beach County holds one of the densest concentrations of recovery housing in the United States, running north from Boca Raton through Delray Beach, Boynton Beach and West Palm Beach, the county seat. Boca sits at the southern end of that corridor. The advantage for a resident is depth of everything: outpatient providers, twelve-step meetings at almost any hour, employers used to hiring people in recovery, and other houses to move to if this one turns out to be the wrong fit. Florida Atlantic University and the office parks along Glades Road and Yamato Road carry a steady volume of entry-level and campus hiring.

How Florida Certifies a Recovery Residence

Florida certifies recovery residences through the Florida Association of Recovery Residences, the only credentialing entity the Department of Children and Families has approved for this purpose. Participation is voluntary under state law, so a house that is not listed may still be a sound one. What certification adds is a record: a code of ethics the operator has signed, fees and house rules disclosed in writing before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint process that runs outside the house. In a county with this much recovery housing, that record is one of the few things a family can check from out of state.

Questions to Ask Before Moving Into This Boca Raton Sober Living Home

Applications go directly to the operator, and the useful questions are the ones certification obliges an answer to. What does the weekly or monthly fee cover, and what is billed separately. Does a house manager live on site. How are bedrooms assigned and how many men share one. What happens after a relapse, and does a resident lose the deposit. Is medication for opioid use disorder accepted, and does that acceptance extend to methadone as well as buprenorphine. Get the answers in writing.