New Life Jax Recovery Men's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

New Life Jax Recovery is a men's recovery residence in Jacksonville, Florida, serving the Mandarin area of Duval County. It runs a Christ-centered, twelve-step based program, and its administrator holds Florida's Certified Recovery Residence Administrator credential.

A Men's Sober House in Jacksonville's Mandarin Area

Mandarin occupies the southern tip of Jacksonville along the east bank of the St. Johns River, a residential district of older neighborhoods and newer subdivisions well south of downtown. The exact address is not published, and placement runs through the operator. Jacksonville is consolidated with Duval County, so the city government is the county government, and a resident dealing with courts, licensing or county services is dealing with one administration instead of two.

What This Recovery Home Provides Beyond a Bed

The program lists food, transportation, a business center, laundry, job placement assistance, cognitive behavioral therapy and peer specialist support among what residents receive. That is a wider package than most sober living homes offer, and the transportation and job placement pieces are the ones that decide outcomes in a city as spread out as Jacksonville. Duval County covers roughly eight hundred square miles, and a man without a car and without a ride is functionally housebound in most of it.

A Christ-Centered Men's Recovery Residence

The house is explicit about its foundation: Christ-centered and twelve-step based, with teamwork and accountability as its stated organizing principles. Faith-based recovery housing suits some people and not others, and the honest thing about an operator that says so up front is that the question gets settled before a deposit changes hands. Anyone for whom that framework is a poor fit knows to look elsewhere, and anyone who wants it knows where to apply.

Credentials Behind This Jacksonville Sober Living Operator

The administrator carries the Certified Recovery Residence Administrator credential issued by the Florida Certification Board, and the operator is a member of the Northeast Florida Sober Living Alliance. Florida has three credentials that get confused with one another. The administrator credential belongs to a person. A treatment license belongs to a clinical program. Certification of a residence itself is voluntary and runs through the Florida Association of Recovery Residences, which the state's Department of Children and Families approved as the credentialing entity for residences. Ask the operator which of the three apply to the house being offered.

More on The Sober House Several recovering addicts/alcoholics passionate about helping others suffering from substance use disorders with decades of clean and sober time, we are passionate about giving those desiring recoveries a solution in suburban Jacksonville.  We believe the solution is a sober living home environment where you can live harmoniously with others in recovery.   It's the peer to peer support that helps us heal and learn to live sober and happy. Recovery happens one day at a time.