Raven House Men's Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

Raven House is a Chicago, Illinois sober living home for men, run by Stairway to Freedom in the Portage Park community area. Raven House stands in Cook County.

Men's Recovery Housing in Portage Park

Stairway to Freedom publishes Raven House as a men's residence located in Portage Park, near the Old Irving neighborhood of Chicago. Portage Park is one of the community areas that make up the city's Northwest Side, and the Old Irving neighborhood the operator uses as a reference point lies east of it inside the Irving Park community area. A single-gender recovery residence settles the question most prospective residents ask first, because it fixes the peer group a man will live alongside every day.

Inside the Raven House Residence

Stairway to Freedom states that Raven House has been completely rehabbed and has brand new everything. Building condition is not a cosmetic matter in recovery housing; it is the difference between a house a resident wants to come home to at the end of a shift and one he does not.

Peer Support Rather Than Clinical Care

Stairway to Freedom is explicit that it is not a primary alcohol or drug treatment facility and not a detox center. The organization builds its model on peer-based support and what it calls the therapeutic value of one addict helping another. Raven House is therefore a place to live while recovery work happens, not a place where clinical care is delivered on site. For a man leaving a treatment episode, that distinction decides what he still arranges elsewhere and what the house itself supplies.

The Stairway to Freedom Network

Stairway to Freedom was founded in 2007 by a group of members from the Chicago recovery community. Alongside Raven House the operator runs Cardinal House and Sparrow House, also in Portage Park, and Condor House in Belmont Cragin. Raven House is one of four recovery residences Stairway to Freedom operates in the city, and three of the four sit inside the same community area.

Raven House at a Glance

• Raven House, a men's recovery residence in Chicago
• Located in Portage Park, near the Old Irving neighborhood
• County: Cook
• Operator: Stairway to Freedom, established in 2007
• Peer-based recovery housing, with no detox and no primary treatment on site

Stairway to Freedom is a halfway house alternative that helps provide a safe and supportive place where addicts and alcoholics can start their journey from active addiction to sober living in Chicago one step at a time, and one day at a time. Living sober in Chicago is not impossible. Stairway to Freedom offers clients a safe, supportive living environment once they are clean and committed to sober living. While on the road to recovery, our clients receive structure, support and a safe place to continue their personal recovery process.