About this Sober House
Foundation House - 235 State Street is a men's sober living residence in Portland, Maine, in Cumberland County. It is one of the two residences Foundation House currently names on its own houses and facilities page, and one of the three Portland addresses recorded against the organization in Maine's July 2020 Recovery Residences Directory. State Street is a long residential avenue on the Portland peninsula, and the house is a home address rather than a clinical one.
A Residence Inside a Program
Foundation House is not an independent sober house that a man rents a bed in and attends treatment somewhere else. The organization describes itself as behavioral health and substance abuse treatment for men, and states that its program incorporates a fully licensed Intensive Outpatient Program in which clients receive a minimum of nine clinical hours each week. Those hours are delivered at 160 Preble Street, elsewhere in Portland. So 235 State Street is the living half of that arrangement: the address a resident comes back to, keeps his things at, and shares with the other men in the program.
Who Lives at 235 State Street
Every Foundation House property serves men, and the 2020 state directory recorded the group that way. There is nothing mixed-gender about this address. Beyond that, what a prospective resident is joining is a peer group of men working through the same clinical program on the same weekly schedule, which is a different social experience from a house whose residents are all attending different programs or none. Whether that suits a person depends a good deal on what they are coming out of.
Accreditation and What It Covers
Foundation House carries Joint Commission accreditation and membership of the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs. Both attach to the organization and its clinical program rather than to any single street address. Maine's own recovery housing standard, administered by the Maine Association of Recovery Residences, is voluntary and separate, and Foundation House is not part of it. Prospective residents and their families sometimes assume those two systems are interchangeable. They are not, and knowing which one a listing holds tells you which aspect of the operation has been reviewed by an outside body.
Recovery Housing on the Portland Peninsula
State Street sits in the part of Portland where the city's housing stock is oldest and its services densest, and Cumberland County carries a large share of the listings in this directory. For men in a residential program, a peninsula address means the clinical building, work, appointments and the wider recovery community are all in the same city rather than scattered across the county. Portland also gives people leaving a program somewhere to stay afterwards, which matters, because the transition out of structured housing is where a lot of plans come apart.
For anyone comparing Portland listings, the useful questions are consistent: whether a place is a residence or part of a treatment program, whether it carries the state's voluntary recovery housing certification, who it serves, and what a resident's day is expected to look like. This listing sits clearly on one side of the first question. 235 State Street is housing attached to a clinical program rather than a stand-alone recovery residence, and a prospective resident should decide which of those two he is actually looking for before comparing anything else.
How to Inquire About This House
Admission to 235 State Street runs through Foundation House as a whole, since the residence and the clinical program are offered together. The other Foundation House listings in this directory, 40 Deering Street and 42 Mellen Street, are separate houses under the same organization, and the Foundation House operator page sets out the program, the accreditation and the wider footprint in Portland. Anyone deciding between them will mostly be deciding between streets, because the program behind all three is the same.
Our Men's Sober Living Drug and substance Addiction recovery
Finding the right fit between the individual and their program of recovery is the first step to success. At Foundation House, we work with clients whose needs align with our core beliefs, clinical experience, physical environment and programmatic philosophy. Our unique blend of trust, freedom and support engages our residents in the process of healing and helps them rebuild their lives in a real-world setting.
Our long list of offerings also includes gym memberships, yoga, cooking classes, holistic health lessons, a float spa, woodworking, travel, volunteer programs and sports leagues. We keep our residents busy, but surround their structured time with freedom and autonomy that allows them to feel uniquely trusted and an active part of their recovery process.
Safe Supportive Recovery Environment
By the end of a resident's stay at Foundation House, he has found stability in daily life, is able to practice personal accountability and is equipped to begin a life of independence. Graduates begin to integrate into our Alumni Program and we assist in the process of finding housing in Portland, planning a move home, going back to school or transitioning to a step-down program of their choice.
It is essential that residents' commitment to Foundation House be matched by our own. Every minute of every day is an opportunity to find a moment of impact and insight. From making the bed, to making amends we are with them every step of the way.
Sober living homes are group residences for people who are recovering from addiction. In most instances, people who live in sober homes have to follow certain house rules and contribute to the home by doing chores. Most importantly, residents must stay sober throughout their stay in the home.
