About this Sober House
Hillview Sober Living is a sober house for men in Portland, Maine. The house is on Atlantic Street, in Cumberland County, in the city with the largest concentration of recovery housing and recovery services in the state.
Who Hillview Sober Living Serves
Hillview Sober Living is a men's house. The Maine Recovery Residence Directory published in July 2020 lists it in exactly those terms, as Hillview Sober Living, men, at 90 Atlantic St in Portland.
Men's sober living in a city the size of Portland tends to serve a wide range of people at once: men coming out of residential treatment, men leaving incarceration, men who have been in and out of recovery for years and want somewhere the terms are clear, and men who simply cannot go back to the address they were living at. What they have in common is the need for a substance-free place to sleep that does not depend on their own willpower alone.
Sober Living on Atlantic Street
The house is a residence rather than a clinical facility. It does not appear on the state's list of licensed substance use disorder residential treatment beds, which means it is sober housing and not treatment. That distinction is the single most useful thing to understand when comparing options: treatment is a licensed clinical service with an admission and a discharge, while sober living is a place to live, alongside other people doing the same thing, usually while working, attending outpatient care or both.
How Sober Housing Works in Maine
Maine sober houses vary a great deal, and the variation is mostly about structure. Some are peer-run, with residents managing the house between them. Some have a house manager on site. Certification through the Maine Association of Recovery Residences is voluntary and gives a published standard to check a house against, but plenty of houses in the state operate without it, and a directory listing is a starting point for a conversation rather than a substitute for one.
The questions worth asking any house are the same: what does the house expect of a resident week to week, is there a manager living in, how does the house handle someone who returns to use, and what does moving in actually involve. A house that answers those clearly is telling you how it runs.
Sober Living in Portland and Cumberland County
Portland is the seat of Cumberland County and the largest city in Maine, and it carries the deepest concentration of recovery meetings, outpatient services and sober housing anywhere in the state. For many people that is the reason to be here: the support is close together, and it is possible to hold a job, get to appointments and get to meetings without a car.
Hillview Sober Living is one of the men's houses recorded in Portland in the state's recovery residence directory. For anyone searching for a men's sober house in Portland, sober living in Cumberland County, or a substance-free place to live in southern Maine, it is one of the listings to look into.
About Our Men's Structured Sober Living Recovery Home in Portland, Maine
The first steps taken on the road to recovery are of the utmost importance. For this reason, it is highly beneficial to learn from those who have already found success on this path. Hillview Sober Living is staffed exclusively by recovered addicts and alcoholics who utilize their personal experience to inform their approach with each individual resident.
ACCOUNTABILITY, STRUCTURE & BALANCE
Through personal accountability, our residents maintain clean facilities that cultivate healthy recovery and habits. Residents are assigned chores and expected to keep up with house rules upon admission.
n October, 2013, Hillview Sober Living was founded by a recovered addict with a vision for clean, safe, and structured sober living where men in early recovery could practice the 12 Steps while transitioning back into the community. In 2015 the founder relocated to Florida.
To ensure Hillview Sober Living's continued quality he asked two fellow recovered addicts to take over operations. The new owners shared the same vision as the founder and continued to run Hillview Sober Living with the same principles. This house seeks to provide a higher level of structure and comprehensive care to those in need of more hands on assistance. Since our inception, we have maintained the same vision and continue to help as many men achieve recovery as possible.
The 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous as well as attend 12 Step meetings
