Reinheart House Coed Sober House

About this Sober House

Reinheart House is a coed sober house in West Monroe, Louisiana, in Ouachita Parish, run by Sober Nest Recovery Homes. The nonprofit has kept recovery housing open in northeast Louisiana for more than twenty years.

A Coed Sober House in the Sober Nest Group

Reinheart House houses men and women together under one set of rules. For a resident weighing options, the coed arrangement is the first fact to sit with, because it changes the texture of the house: shared common areas, mixed house meetings, and a visitor policy that has to do more work than it would in a single gender home. Sober Nest runs several houses in the area and moves applicants toward whichever one has an open bed and a decent fit.

Two Decades of Recovery Housing in Northeast Louisiana

Sober Nest incorporated in 2004 and has operated continuously since. Longevity is a meaningful signal in recovery housing, where the failure rate is high and houses open and close inside a single year. An operator that has held a Louisiana charity charter for twenty years has survived turnover in the local treatment system, changes in how the parish handles zoning, and the ordinary financial pressure of running a house on resident fees.

Peer Accountability in This Recovery Residence

The program is twelve step based. Residents attend Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous or Celebrate Recovery meetings and are expected to be working a program, not simply abstaining. What holds a house like this together is the willingness of the people in it to notice each other. Someone who wants clinical supervision on site is looking at the wrong kind of housing, and someone who wants to be left alone is too.

Where This West Monroe Sober Living Home Sits

West Monroe lies on the west bank of the Ouachita River, across from Monroe and inside Ouachita Parish. Monroe is the parish seat. Between them the two cities hold the hospitals, the courthouse, the university and the outpatient providers that serve a large stretch of northeast Louisiana, and Interstate 20 links them to Shreveport in one direction and Vicksburg in the other. A resident here is inside the region's only real service hub.

Certification and Louisiana Recovery Homes

No Louisiana agency licenses recovery residences, and the state publishes no list of them. Certification comes from the Louisiana Association of Recovery Residences, which is a voluntary association and says so plainly. An applicant should treat certification as a question to ask the operator directly, and should treat the absence of a state registry as a reason to get fees, house rules and discharge policy in writing before moving in.