About this Recovery House
Fresh Coast Alliance is a coed sober living home in Muskegon, Michigan, the seat of Muskegon County. It sits at 1128 Roberts Street and holds Level 2 certification from the Michigan Association of Recovery Residences, the state affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences.
A Single-Family Sober House on Roberts Street
MARR lists this residence as a single-family home, which describes the experience of living here better than any program label. Residents share a house, share meals and share responsibility for how it runs, and a housing manager certified through the CCAR recovery coach program oversees it. Men and women are both served. Roberts Street sits on Muskegon's east side, and the homes are within walking distance of the organization's training center and therapy office, so programming does not depend on owning a car.
What $600 a Month Covers at This Recovery Residence
The fee is $600 per month, and it covers housing, recovery programming, peer support, case management and access to program resources. Fresh Coast Alliance charges its programming at cost with no markup. That single-figure structure is unusual and useful: a resident is not quoted rent and then billed separately for the services that make the housing work, so the monthly number on the application is the number.
Level 2 Certification and the Michigan Standard
Michigan has no license, registry or certification requirement for recovery residences, so MARR certification is voluntary and is the only external standard a Michigan sober house can be measured against. It obliges a residence to a published code of ethics, to written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, to a documented relapse and discharge policy, and to complaint review from outside the house. Level 2 describes a monitored residence: peer-managed with a house manager, defined expectations, and clinical services delivered by outside providers. MARR grants certification residence by residence, so the level attaches to this address.
Structure, Employment and Faith in This Sober Living Program
Residents commit to abstinence, random drug testing, participation in programming, a work, school or volunteer schedule, attendance at house meetings, and the house rules. The program is faith-based and pairs housing with job training, life skills, employment support and access to mental health and addiction services. The result is a house where the daily schedule is the intervention: residents are working or training during the day and accountable to the same group at night.
Reentry and Medication-Assisted Recovery
Applicants with felony records are considered, and residents taking prescribed medication for opioid use disorder are accepted. Muskegon County's reentry population and its drug treatment court both depend on housing that says yes to those two things, and a certified residence that does is a short list in west Michigan.
Muskegon County Recovery Housing and the Lakeshore
Muskegon is the county seat and the largest city on Michigan's western lakeshore, and it carries the services that come with that: Trinity Health Muskegon, Muskegon Community College, the county courthouse and treatment courts, and a manufacturing and tourism labor market that hires year round. The MAX bus system connects the east side to downtown and the lakeshore, and Grand Rapids is forty minutes inland for anything the county lacks. Someone leaving treatment in Oceana, Newaygo or northern Ottawa County generally finds that Muskegon recovery housing is the nearest address with work, appointments and meetings all in reach.
While our homes are not classified as a detox facility, residential treatment facility, or behavioral health facility, we do provide a clean and sober living environment with a focus on relapse prevention in a safe and welcoming environment. All housing placements are in clean and sober homes regardless of their focus on reentry or recovery.
