About this Recovery House
Hummingbird House Maple Grove is a women's sober living home in Boise, Idaho, in Ada County. The nonprofit that runs it identifies the house by the Maple Grove area of west Boise, and it is one of six women's recovery homes the organization operates in the Treasure Valley.
A Six Bedroom Women's Sober House in West Boise
This house has six bedrooms, which is a larger household than most Idaho recovery residences carry. Size cuts both ways and a woman comparing options should know which side she is on. A bigger house holds the cost per resident down and puts more people in the building at three in the morning when someone is struggling. It also means more personalities in one kitchen and less quiet than a three bedroom house offers. West Boise, where it sits, is the part of the metro where rents stay within reach of an entry-level wage.
A Nonprofit Recovery Home for Women in Boise
The operator is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Boise, and it runs women's houses only. Nonprofit status changes what stands behind the door. There is a board, an annual public filing, and funder relationships that create outside parties with standing to ask questions about how the housing is run. In a state that regulates recovery residences not at all, that structure is doing real work. Residents funded through Magellan pay a monthly amenity fee of $325.
Applying to This Boise Sober Living Home
The street address is not published, and placement runs through the operator, which decides which of its six houses has the right opening. An applicant should ask which house she is being considered for and ask to see it. Ask what the monthly cost is under her own funding situation, how many women share a bedroom, whether a house manager lives on site, what ends a stay, and whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted.
Idaho Sober Living and the Lack of a Certifying Body
No Idaho agency certifies, licenses or registers recovery residences, and the state has no affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. Where an affiliate exists, certification forces a house to disclose fees and rules in advance, keep a written relapse and discharge policy, and accept complaint review from outside the household. Idaho requires none of it. A resident can still ask for all three, and an operator that hands them over has met the standard voluntarily.
Boise Recovery Housing for Women in Ada County
Boise is the seat of Ada County and holds most of the women's recovery housing in Idaho. The concentration is the reason to start a search here. Outpatient providers, both hospital systems, the Ada County drug and mental health courts, the College of Western Idaho and a deep entry-level job market are inside one metro linked by one bus system, so a woman with a court obligation, a treatment schedule and a shift in the same week can realistically hold all three.
Hummingbird's Other Women's Sober Homes
The operator runs six houses ranging from three to seven bedrooms: three in Boise, one in Meridian, and two in Nampa. A resident whose job or family situation changes can move to another house inside the same organization without a new application and without leaving the Treasure Valley. Idaho's Department of Health and Welfare publishes program and crisis service information for the whole state.
