About this Recovery House
Building Men for Life - Holland is a men's sober house in Holland, Michigan, in Ottawa County. It holds Level 3 certification from the Michigan Association of Recovery Residences, and the rate is $200 per week or $750 per month.
A Men's Sober House in Holland, Michigan
Building Men for Life houses men in recovery from alcoholism and addiction in a mix of single-family and congregate settings. The house is single-gender, and its stated purpose reaches past the resident: the operator counts stopping the damage an addiction does to a family among the things the housing is for. The street address is not published, and placement is handled by the operator directly.
A Spiritually Grounded Approach to Sober Living
The program is built on a spiritually based holistic approach to addiction treated as a chronic disease. In practice that means the house expects a man to work on more than abstinence, and a prospective resident who wants a purely secular program should say so early and ask how the daily and weekly expectations are framed. The operator has been doing this long enough to have moved a large number of men through, and it describes its work in terms of lives and families saved. Beds filled is not the measure it reaches for.
MARR Level 3 Certification for This Men's Recovery Residence
Level 3 is supervised recovery housing under the standards of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences: staff, oversight and a structured written program, with clinical care coming from outside providers. Michigan requires no license or registration for a recovery residence, so the certification is voluntary and it is the only external standard the house can be measured against. It commits the residence to a code of ethics, to disclosing fees and rules in writing before move-in, to a written relapse and discharge policy, and to a complaint process a resident can use.
What This Holland Recovery Home Costs
The rate is $200 per week, or $750 per month for a resident paying monthly. The monthly figure is the cheaper of the two over a full month, which is worth raising at intake along with the deposit and what the fee includes.
Medication-Assisted Recovery and Second Chances in Recovery Housing
Men on medication for opioid use disorder are accepted, and applicants with felony convictions are accepted. For a man leaving custody in West Michigan, those two facts narrow a long search quickly, and both are stated on the public certification list.
Recovery Housing in Holland and Ottawa County
Holland sits on Lake Macatawa near Lake Michigan, split between Ottawa and Allegan counties, with the county seat at Grand Haven up the shore. It is the largest employment center in southern Ottawa County, with manufacturing, food processing and a dense downtown, and the Macatawa Area Express covers the corridors a resident without a car needs. Recovery housing in the lakeshore cities is limited, so a certified men's residence in Holland draws applicants from across the county and from Allegan County as well.
