About this Sober House
Meraki Recovery Housing - Brooklyn Center Men's is a men's sober house in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, in Hennepin County, three miles up the Mississippi from the Minneapolis city line. It is certified by the Minnesota Association of Sober Homes. The operator publishes no street address for the residence, and inquiries go to Meraki Recovery Housing directly.
A Hennepin County Sober House Inside the Urban Core
Brooklyn Center is a first-ring suburb, which for a resident means city access without a city address. Minneapolis is the county seat and the center of Hennepin County's courts, clinics and outpatient providers, and it is a short bus ride down Brooklyn Boulevard or Highway 252. A man leaving treatment in the metro can keep the same prescriber, the same counselor and the same home group while changing where he sleeps.
What the House Expects of Men in Recovery
Entry requires 28 days of proven sobriety and a negative screen. After that the week has a shape: three recovery meetings, thirty hours of productive activity, a Sunday house meeting and chores twice a week. Those are the terms of residency, and they are the same at every Meraki house. Men who arrive with a job already lined up settle fastest, and men who arrive without one are expected to be looking during the hours the rule covers.
What MASH Certification Means for a Brooklyn Center Recovery Residence
Certification is voluntary in Minnesota, and this residence carries it. Certification obliges the house to hand an applicant its fees and rules in writing before he signs, to keep a written relapse and discharge policy, to follow a published code of ethics, and to answer to a complaint process outside the house. In a metro where certified recovery residences and unregulated rooming houses advertise side by side, that paperwork is the practical difference.
The Cost of This Brooklyn Center Sober Living Home
The program fee is $700 per month, with a $250 application fee. The figure is published, it is the same across the operator's houses, and a resident can plan a budget against it from the first paycheck.
Meraki Recovery Housing Homes Across Hennepin and Anoka Counties
Eleven residences carry the Meraki name, in Brooklyn Center, Blaine, Ramsey, Ham Lake, Anoka, Coon Rapids and Columbia Heights. Two of them are here in Brooklyn Center, one for men and one for women, so a couple entering recovery separately or a family with two people in housing can stay in the same city.
Sober living houses also called sober homes and sober living environments, are facilities that provide safe housing and supportive, structured living conditions for people exiting drug rehabilitation programs. Sober houses serve as a transitional environment between such programs and mainstream society. Our vision and mission are to help connect people in recovery.
