About this Recovery House
Fifth Coast Recovery - St. Clair Shores is a men's sober living home in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, in Macomb County. It holds Level 3 certification from the Michigan Association of Recovery Residences and runs an abstinence-based program in a single-family home.
A Men's Sober Living Home in St. Clair Shores
St. Clair Shores runs along Lake St. Clair at the southern end of Macomb County, a dense residential city of small lots and postwar houses directly north of Detroit's east side. The residence houses men only, so bedrooms, bathrooms and house meetings serve one population and one set of rules applies to everyone. Mount Clemens is the county seat, where circuit court, probation and county behavioral health services are handled. The street is withheld from the certified list, and applications go to the operator.
Level 3 MARR Certification for This Recovery Residence
Level 3 describes supervised recovery housing. Paid staff are involved, there is an organizational structure above the residents, admission and discharge follow written policy, and residents are expected at structured programming. Certification puts that on a public list and attaches obligations to it: a code of ethics, fees and rules disclosed in writing before move-in, a written relapse policy, and a complaint process outside the house. Michigan neither licenses nor registers recovery residences, so all of this is voluntary, and a Macomb County resident comparing houses will find the certified ones are the only ones with a record to compare.
Twelve-Step Expectations in This Macomb County Sober House
The program is explicit about what it asks. Residents participate in twelve-step programs, find a sponsor, actively work a recovery program, and practice its principles daily. Abstinence is the baseline. For a man who already counts AA or NA as the center of his recovery, that requirement is the reason to pick this house. For someone whose pathway is medication and clinical care with no meeting attachment, it is the thing to weigh before applying, because the expectation is written into the program and enforced.
Employment and Cost in This Recovery Home
Finding work is part of the program, and the fee reflects a household of employed men: $750 per month. That figure sits at the upper end of certified housing in Macomb County, and it buys supervised housing in a lakefront suburb with retail, restaurant, trades and warehouse work close by. The design assumption is straightforward. Residents have somewhere to be during the day, and the rest of the house structure is built on top of that.
Medication-Assisted Treatment and Recovery Housing
Prescribed medication for opioid use disorder is accepted, and applicants with felony convictions are admitted. Both are stated on the certification list. An abstinence-based house that accepts buprenorphine and methadone is drawing its line at illicit use, and a resident on a prescription should confirm how that squares with the twelve-step expectations before moving in. The building is not ADA accessible.
Recovery Housing on the Lake St. Clair Shoreline
Macomb County's recovery housing clusters in its southern cities, across Eastpointe, Roseville, St. Clair Shores and Warren, all of them within a few miles of each other and of the Detroit border. A man leaving treatment in Detroit or Mount Clemens has real options inside that band, and the certified ones are concentrated there. The Macomb County Office of Substance Abuse funds recovery housing assistance for qualifying county residents at houses in this corridor, which is worth raising at any address in it.
