About this Recovery House
Hummingbird House Five Mile is a women's sober house in Boise, Idaho, in Ada County. It is one of six women's recovery homes run by a Boise nonprofit, and the operator identifies it by the Five Mile corridor in the southwest quadrant of the city.
A Women's Sober House Off the Five Mile Corridor
Southwest Boise is subdivision housing on a grid of arterials, and Five Mile Road is one of the north and south spines running through it. The neighborhood matters to a resident for unglamorous reasons: rents are lower here than anywhere closer to downtown, houses are large enough for a real household, and the Overland Road and Franklin Road employment corridors are close. Valley Regional Transit serves the arterials, so a woman without a car can reach a job, a clinic and a meeting.
Seven Bedrooms in This Boise Recovery Home
The house has seven bedrooms, making it one of the larger women's recovery residences in the Treasure Valley. A household that size supports a per resident cost lower than a small house can offer, and it means someone is almost always awake and available. A woman who needs quiet and privacy in her first month should weigh that honestly against the price. The monthly amenity fee for a resident funded through Magellan is $325.
Idaho Has No Registry of Recovery Residences
Idaho publishes no list of recovery residences and has no body that certifies them. There is no state affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences and no published levels for any Idaho house. That absence has one important consequence for a resident: a house cannot be judged by whether it appears on a list, because no list exists, and nothing can be inferred from a house being absent from one. The operator's nonprofit filings and its written housing agreement are what a family can actually examine.
West Boise Recovery Housing in Ada County
Boise is the county seat of Ada County, and Ada County holds more recovery housing than the rest of Idaho combined. Women's houses are the scarcer half of that supply and they are concentrated here. The Ada County Courthouse, the drug and mental health courts, Saint Alphonsus and St. Luke's, the College of Western Idaho and a large service and warehouse job market all sit inside the metro, and southwest Boise is inside comfortable reach of all of them.
How Placement Works With This Sober Living Operator
The street address is not published. Applications go to the nonprofit, which places women across six houses in Boise, Meridian and Nampa. An applicant should ask which house she is being considered for, ask to walk through it, and ask what her own monthly cost would be. Ask how bedrooms are assigned in a seven bedroom household, whether a house manager lives on site, what ends a stay, and whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted.
Who This Boise Women's Sober House Suits
It suits a woman leaving detox, residential treatment or jail who wants a large, structured household in an affordable part of Boise with transit and work nearby. It suits someone who does better with people around than alone. It is a poorer fit for a woman who needs a private room, or clinical supervision on site. Idaho's Department of Health and Welfare funds and oversees behavioral health services statewide.
