About this Recovery House
Alpha Omega II is a men's recovery residence in Escanaba, Michigan, the seat of Delta County. It is certified at Level 3 through the Michigan Association of Recovery Residences and has been run by Catholic Social Services of the Upper Peninsula since 2018.
A Men's Recovery Residence in Escanaba
The residence is a single-family home for men in recovery, in a city of about twelve thousand on the shore of Little Bay de Noc. Its street address is not published, and placement runs through Catholic Social Services, so the useful facts about the address are civic ones: Escanaba is the largest city in Delta County, the county seat, and the commercial center for the central Upper Peninsula. US-2 and US-41 meet here, which makes it the road hub for everything between Menominee and Marquette.
What MARR Level 3 Sober Living Certification Means
Level 3 in the Michigan Association of Recovery Residences framework describes supervised recovery housing: a staffed house with an administrative overlay, structured programming and written policies, sitting a step above peer-run housing and a step below clinically staffed treatment. Certification at that level commits the residence to the standards of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences, which means a published code of ethics, fees and rules disclosed in writing before move-in, a documented relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint process that a resident can escalate outside the house. Michigan licenses none of this, so for a man comparing options in the Upper Peninsula the certification record is the only external check available.
How This Escanaba Sober House Is Run
The model is a self-run household with a certified peer recovery coach as house manager. Residents are expected to stay sober, attend outpatient substance use counseling and weekly recovery meetings of their own choosing, look actively for work, learn and practice daily living skills, and work toward independent housing. The house manager teaches those skills and models the lifestyle instead of policing it. A felony record is not a bar to admission, which is a real decision factor for a man leaving custody in a region with very few open doors.
Medication-Assisted Recovery in This Recovery Home
Residents on medication for opioid use disorder are accepted. That acceptance is not universal in recovery housing, and a man who loses his bed over a prescription frequently loses the prescription along with it. Buprenorphine and methadone prescribing in the Upper Peninsula is thin on the ground and appointments are hard won, so a residence that keeps a resident's treatment and his address aligned removes a genuine risk.
What It Costs to Live in This Delta County Recovery Home
Catholic Social Services publishes the fee schedule. For residents with state insurance, PHIP covers the first sixty days. On the sixty-first day the resident begins paying $315 a month for two months, and from the one hundred twenty-first day the rate is $630 a month. Residents with commercial insurance pay $630 a month from their first day. The step structure is deliberate: the cheapest months are the ones immediately after treatment, when a man is least likely to be earning, and the full rate arrives once he has had four months to find work.
Sober Living Across Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Recovery housing is scarce above the Mackinac Bridge, and the certified stock is concentrated in a handful of towns. Escanaba holds Bay College, OSF St. Francis Hospital, the Delta County courthouse and the county's outpatient providers inside one small city, so a resident can keep an appointment, meet a probation officer and attend a class without a car and without leaving town. For men coming out of treatment in the smaller communities of Delta, Menominee and Schoolcraft counties, Escanaba is usually the nearest address with all of that in walking distance.
