About this Recovery Home
Men's Recovery Home is Hour House's sober living home for men in Charleston, Illinois, in Coles County. The operator publishes it at 657 Division Street, an address of its own on the same street as the Hour House campus.
Two Men's Recovery Housing Addresses on One Street
Hour House lists 657 Division Street on its own locations page, and its men's residential campus stands at 635 Division Street on the same street. Two published street numbers mean two households, each with its own front door and its own set of housemates. A man moving from one to the other changes his address and keeps his pharmacy, his employer and the people he already knows in the program.
Where This Sober House Sits in the Hour House Ladder
Hour House publishes three stages of men's housing: men's halfway house services, men's residential services and men's three-quarter recovery home services. The recovery home is the last of the three by name, which tells a man reading that list what this address is for. He arrives with the acute stage behind him, and the expectations waiting for him are those of a household.
Life in a Charleston Recovery Home
Charleston is the seat of Coles County and the home of Eastern Illinois University. County offices, the circuit court and a university town's employers all sit in the same municipality as this house, so a man without a car can hold a job, keep a court date and attend an appointment inside one town. A university town also turns over entry-level work on a semester rhythm, which gives someone rebuilding an employment history a realistic place to start.
A Recovery Home Backed by a Licensed Provider
Central East Alcoholism and Drug Council operates as Hour House and states that it is accredited through CARF and licensed and funded in whole or in part through the Illinois Department of Human Services Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Those credentials belong to the organization behind the house. What they give a resident is an operator answerable to an outside body, with published programs and a complaint path that runs past the house itself.
Hour House Sober Homes Across East Central Illinois
Hour House records ten locations in east central Illinois where specialized services for men, women, adolescents or women with children are available, and it works in Charleston, Mattoon, Shelbyville and Lerna. The men's housing is concentrated on Division Street in Charleston, while the organization's women's housing sits at separate Charleston addresses and in Lerna.
What to Ask Before Moving Into This Charleston Sober House
Applications go to Hour House. The useful questions at this address are the ones that separate one stage from the next: what admission to the recovery home requires, how long a stay runs, what the weekly cost is and how it is handled before a resident is working, whether a house manager lives on site, and what happens after a relapse. An organization that publishes its programs by stage should be able to answer each one in writing.
