About this Recovery Home
Providence Farm Community in Northbrook, Illinois is a sober living home in Cook County for men ages 18 to 30 who have completed treatment for substance use disorders.
Extended Care for Men Ages 18 to 30
Providence Farm is an extended care community-based and community-supported sober home for 18 to 30 year old men who have completed treatment for substance use disorders. Extended care is the stage that follows primary treatment, so every resident arrives with treatment already behind him. The narrow age band does more than describe the household: a man of twenty-three lives among people facing the same unfinished tasks he is, from a first full-time job to a degree left half-done.
Farm Work as Part of the Program
Residents take part in farm work, including refinishing the barn, building the gardens, and caring for a small community of rescued farm animals, work the program describes as connecting residents experientially to their own self-care. That work is the distinctive element of the program at this Northbrook address. Animals and a garden set obligations that arrive on their own schedule rather than on a resident's, which is a different kind of accountability from a rule written on a wall.
What the Program Includes
Providence Farm Community publishes the components of its program:
- Peer-based recovery support
- Off-site individual therapy
- Parent education and support groups
- Educational and vocational support
- Life-skills support including financial planning, management and budgeting
- Full-time case management
- Full-time live-in resident support
- Nutritional coaching relevant to a recovery lifestyle
- Exercise
- Drug and alcohol testing
Parent education sits on that list alongside the resident-facing items, which marks the program out: the family a young man came from is treated as part of the work rather than as an audience for it.
Speaking in Local Schools
Residents at Providence Farm give back to the community by speaking at local middle schools and high schools about substance abuse, mental health disorders and recovery. Community members can also request and schedule a visit to see the gardens and animals alongside residents. Both arrangements point the same way, at a house that expects to be known in the town it sits in rather than screened off from it.
Recovery Housing North of Chicago
Providence Farm Community describes its position as central to Chicagoland's North Shore and Northwest suburban communities, at a Sunset Ridge Road address in Northbrook, within Cook County. Northbrook is a village at the northern edge of Cook County, adjoining Lake County, and Metra commuter rail service runs through it toward downtown Chicago. For families comparing sober living options outside the city, that is Cook County recovery housing in a suburban setting. Confirm current availability and admission requirements with Providence Farm Community directly.
ABOUT US
Providence Farm is an extended care community-based and community-supported sober home for 18-30 year old men who have completed treatment for substance use disorders. Our house is on 2.3 acres in Northbrook, Illinois, central to Chicagoland's North Shore and Northwest suburban communities.
We are a unique recovery community environment, providing comprehensive age and gender appropriate support in addition to a drug and alcohol free residential environment.
