RHOM - Trava's House Coed Sober House

About this Sober House

RHOM - Trava's House is a certified recovery residence in Lewiston, Maine, in Androscoggin County. It is operated by Recovery Housing of Maine, an operator certified by the Maine Association of Recovery Residences.

Where This House Sits in the Operator's Group

MARR applies the framework the National Alliance for Recovery Residences defines, certifying each residence on its own terms. A certified residence has written standards behind it, an organization accountable for how the household runs day to day, and a complaint process that reaches past the house.

A Named House in a Phased Recovery Housing Program

Recovery Housing of Maine runs its houses as stages of one program. Residents typically start in the more structured home and move on after roughly two months to a smaller and less restricted one, with no fixed move-out date; the organization is explicit that a resident can stay until he is ready to leave. Trava's House carries a house name of its own where the operator's other houses are listed by street or city. Alongside the housing, the organization offers recovery coaching and self-help trainings.

What MARR Certification Commits a Sober House To

Certification is granted residence by residence, which is why the levels vary across this operator's four houses. A certified residence agrees in writing to a code of ethics. It hands an applicant its fees and house rules before move-in. It keeps a written relapse and discharge policy, and it can be the subject of a complaint that someone outside the house reviews. In a state where certified recovery residences and unregulated rooming houses both rent to people in early recovery, that record is the one thing a resident can check in advance.

Recovery Housing in Lewiston and Auburn

Lewiston and Auburn face each other across the Androscoggin River and work as a single community of about sixty thousand people, the largest in Maine outside greater Portland. Health care, courts, outpatient treatment and most of the area's employment are concentrated in the two cities, and citylink buses cross between them. Recovery housing has clustered here for the same reason, so a resident can hold a job, keep appointments and meet a probation or reentry obligation from one address in the middle of it.

What to Ask Before Moving Into This Lewiston Sober House

Placement runs through Recovery Housing of Maine, and the street address of this residence is not published. The useful questions are the ones certification obliges an answer to: what the weekly fee covers, what the staff on site actually do, which services are delivered in the house and which come from outside providers, whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted, and what a resident has to do to move on to one of the operator's less structured homes.