Clean Living Exceptional Alternative Recovery Residences - Minerva Avenue Men's Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

Clean Living Exceptional Alternative Recovery Residences – Minerva Avenue in Glenwood, Illinois, is a sober living home for men. Glenwood is a village in Cook County, among the communities along the county's southern edge.

The Minerva Avenue Address

The house stands at 222 South Minerva Avenue. The public business profile for that address carries the organization's own website, which is what ties the Minerva Avenue property to Clean Living Exceptional Alternative Recovery Residences. For anyone weighing sober living options in Glenwood, that link answers the first question worth asking about a recovery residence: who answers for the house.

A Men's Household in Southern Cook County

Men are the population served at both C.L.E.A.R.R. addresses, and the Glenwood house is one of them. Glenwood lies in the southern tier of Cook County, a small residential village among the south suburbs, so a man entering this residence stays close to the south-suburban community he came from. Remaining in the same part of the county keeps a job, a family relationship or a standing appointment reachable instead of turning each one into an expedition.

A Nonprofit Organized Around Recovery Housing

Clean Living Exceptional Alternative Recovery Residences is a registered Illinois nonprofit carrying EIN 84-3838995. Its stated mission is to provide a safe and secure sober living environment for the person recovering from substance use disorder. That mission is written around housing, and the charitable registration puts the organization's filings on the public record. A registered nonprofit is answerable in a way an informal arrangement is not, and the record is open to anyone who cares to look at it.

IAEC Certification

The Illinois Association of Extended Care names C.L.E.A.R.R. among its certified recovery residence providers. The Minerva Avenue house is therefore run by a certified operator, and the register that says so is public. What certification establishes is that an outside association, not the operator, decides whether the standard has been met.

Services Attached to the Housing

C.L.E.A.R.R. offers case management services, community involvement, cultural enlightenment and peer support to the men it houses. Those supports are built into the residency rather than left as referrals a resident has to assemble for himself after moving in.

The Other C.L.E.A.R.R. House

C.L.E.A.R.R. runs a second Illinois address, at 230 Early Street in Park Forest, which is also a men's residence.