TIM's CLUBe Coed Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

TIM's CLUBe is a coed sober living home on East Walnut Street in Des Moines, Iowa, in Polk County. It is one of several Christ-centered transitional homes the ministry oversees for men and women across the Des Moines area, and it houses residents who want a recovery household organized around faith as well as sobriety.

A Coed Sober House on East Walnut Street

East Walnut Street runs through the near east side of Des Moines, a few blocks from the State Capitol complex and the East Village. It is a dense, older part of the city where housing, work and bus service sit close together. Residents can reach downtown on foot or on a short DART ride, which keeps a job, a court date and an evening meeting inside the same day for someone without a car.

A Christ-Centered Recovery Home in Des Moines

The ministry describes its mission as providing a safe place for people to grow in their recovery under the Lordship of Jesus Christ, and its vision as seeing lives restored and families healed, with each resident finding a place in God's family and becoming a productive member of the community. That framing is not decorative. Faith is the organizing principle of the household, and a prospective resident should expect it to shape the daily rhythm, the expectations and the language spoken in the house. For someone whose recovery is already anchored in a church, that alignment is the reason to choose this address over a secular one.

Entering This Des Moines Sober Living Home

Entry is handled centrally by the ministry, and a program director places applicants. Because the organization operates several homes for men and for women, an applicant is considered for the household that fits, which is a meaningful advantage over applying to a single standalone address. Volunteers are involved throughout the ministry, so residents encounter people from outside the house on a regular basis.

Recovery Housing on the East Side of Polk County

Des Moines is the seat of Polk County and the capital of Iowa, and the east side is where a good share of the city's affordable housing and entry-level employment still sits. Residents of an east-side recovery home are close to the state office complex, the Polk County criminal justice campus, the hospitals and a thick schedule of twelve-step meetings. People leaving treatment in the smaller towns of central Iowa often move to Des Moines precisely because that combination does not exist at home.

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