About this Recovery House
The Uncle Mike House is a men's sober house in Boise, Idaho, the seat of Ada County. River Sober Living runs it alongside three other men's homes in the Treasure Valley, and the Brookview Court address it carries is the address the operator publishes for reaching the program.
A Men's Sober House in West Boise
West Boise is where the city's housing stock is newest and its rents are lowest, and it is where most of the metro's recovery housing has ended up. A men's house here puts a resident inside the Franklin Road and Overland Road employment corridors, with Valley Regional Transit routes running east toward downtown and west toward Meridian. For a man rebuilding a work history, that combination of cheap rooms and reachable jobs is the whole argument for this side of the city.
The Operator Behind This Boise Recovery Home
River Sober Living is a small Treasure Valley operator, and the Brookview Court address is where the program answers its phone. A resident dealing with a four-house operation deals with people who know the other three houses. That is the practical difference between a small operator and a landlord renting rooms by the week. Fees, house rules and discharge decisions come from one office, and they are the same in Kuna and Meridian as they are here.
House Expectations at This Boise Sober Living Home
The program is zero tolerance across every River Sober Living house. Alcohol and drug use end a stay. Residents get a published calendar of events, and free family and individual therapy through S.T.A.R.R. Family Behavioral Health along with free chiropractic care through Idaho Wellness Clinic. A man moving in should ask which of those he is expected to use and which are optional, because the answer shapes what a week looks like.
Sober Living Certification and Idaho's Missing Registry
Idaho does not certify, license or register recovery residences. No state agency inspects them, and no affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences operates here, so there is no Idaho list on which a good house appears and a bad one does not. Residents in other states can look up a certification and read a code of ethics behind it. In Boise the equivalent is legwork: visit the house, meet the manager, read the agreement, and ask a treatment provider or a recovery center what they have heard about the operator. Absence from a registry means nothing in Idaho, because no registry exists to be absent from.
Recovery Housing in Boise and Ada County
Boise is the county seat and the largest city in Idaho, and it holds most of what a person in early recovery needs in one place. The Ada County Courthouse, the county's drug and mental health courts, Saint Alphonsus and St. Luke's, Boise State University and the College of Western Idaho all sit inside the metro, along with the state's deepest pool of entry-level work. Ada County recovery housing is the largest concentration in Idaho, which means a resident who needs to change houses has options without leaving the county.
Moving Between River Sober Living Sober Homes
The other three houses are Jesse House in Kuna, the Tyson House in Boise and the Blake House in Meridian. All four are men's houses on one program, so a transfer is a conversation with an operator who already knows the resident. Someone who lands a job in Meridian or Kuna can follow it without giving up his housing.
