About this Recovery House
Alpha Omega I is a men's sober house in Iron Mountain, Michigan, the seat of Dickinson County. Catholic Social Services of the Upper Peninsula opened it in 2012 as its first recovery house, and MARR certifies it at Level 3 for male housing.
A Men's Sober House in Iron Mountain
This is a single-family home for men, in a city of about seven thousand on the Wisconsin border. No street address is published for it, and admission is arranged through Catholic Social Services, so what a prospective resident can weigh is the setting. Iron Mountain is the county seat, the largest city in Dickinson County, and the service center for the Menominee Range. US-2 and US-141 cross here. The city keeps Central time, an hour behind most of Michigan, which matters for anyone coordinating appointments or family calls across the state.
What MARR Certification Binds This Recovery Residence To
Michigan has no license and no registry for recovery housing, so certification through the Michigan Association of Recovery Residences is the only formal standard a residence can hold. It obliges the house to a code of ethics, to handing an applicant the fees and the rules in writing before move-in, to a written relapse and discharge policy, and to a complaint process that goes past the house manager. Level 3 marks it as supervised housing with an administrative structure and organized programming, a step up from a peer-run house. For someone choosing a sober house in the western Upper Peninsula from a distance, that record is checkable in a way that a phone call is not.
A Single-Family Recovery Home With a Peer House Manager
The house runs as a self-managed household with a certified peer recovery coach in the house manager role. Residents hold themselves to sobriety, attend outpatient counseling and weekly recovery meetings they choose, pursue employment, build daily living skills and plan a move into independent housing. Men with felony convictions are accepted, which in a rural county with a small rental market can be the only route to a stable address at all.
Fees and Insurance at This Dickinson County Sober House
The rate is published and tied to insurance. With state insurance, PHIP pays the first sixty days; the resident pays $315 a month for the following two months, then $630 a month from the one hundred twenty-first day. Residents with commercial insurance pay $630 a month from day one. Nothing is hidden behind a phone call, which is itself a useful signal about how the house handles money.
Medication-Assisted Recovery and Who the House Accepts
Medication for opioid use disorder is accepted here. In a county where prescribers are few and the nearest alternative bed may be an hour's drive, a residence that does not force a man to choose between his medication and his housing is doing something concrete for him. The house suits a man leaving detox, residential treatment or jail who is willing to work, attend counseling and live under a shared roof. It is not a clinical setting, and anyone needing nursing or round-the-clock supervision needs a licensed facility.
Recovery Housing on the Menominee Range
Dickinson County's recovery infrastructure sits almost entirely inside Iron Mountain: the courthouse, the outpatient providers, Bay College West, and the Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center, which serves veterans across the whole Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin. Kingsford is adjacent and Niagara, Wisconsin is across the river. A man in this sober house can reach a probation appointment, a VA clinic and an entry-level job inside one small city, which is not true of most of the western Upper Peninsula.
