About this Sober House
Matt's Home is a certified men's sober living home on Elm Street in Delano, Minnesota, in Wright County. It is operated by A Way Out Sober Living and holds certification through the Minnesota Association of Sober Homes.
A Certified Men's Sober House on Elm Street
This sober house in Delano serves men in recovery across six bedrooms and eleven beds, with two shared bathrooms. A $250 application fee applies, and monthly rent runs lower for a shared room than a single, which gives a resident some control over cost during the months when income is least predictable. Elm Street sits in Delano's residential core, walkable to the small downtown along Highway 12, which puts groceries, a pharmacy and local employers within reach without a car.
What MASH Certification Establishes
Matt's Home holds a Certificate of Compliance from the Minnesota Association of Sober Homes, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences, certifying it against NARR's Quality Standards. That commits the house to a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a written policy on relapse and discharge, and openness to outside complaint review. Minnesota's certification program is voluntary, so a certified house has made an active choice to be checked against a set of standards, with no such check required by state law.
Part of A Way Out Sober Living's Portfolio
Matt's Home is one of more than a dozen houses A Way Out Sober Living runs across Minnesota, including men's houses in Eden Prairie, Northfield and Shakopee and women's houses in Waverly, Maplewood and elsewhere in Shakopee. That scale means a resident who needs to move, whether for a job, a change of scenery, or simply a different set of housemates, is choosing among addresses run by an operator who already knows him, without starting over with a stranger.
Recovery Housing in Wright County
Delano sits in Wright County, whose seat is Buffalo, at the edge of the Twin Cities metro along the Highway 12 corridor. That location gives residents of Matt's Home a genuine choice: the small-town pace of Delano day to day, with Minneapolis and the fuller range of outpatient and specialty treatment providers reachable by a roughly forty-minute drive when needed. Wright County's human services office in Buffalo is the local point of contact for benefits and case management.
Applying to Matt's Home in Delano
Applications go through A Way Out Sober Living. Because the house is certified, an applicant is entitled to written answers on the questions that matter most: what the weekly or monthly fee covers, how the $250 application fee applies, what the house's relapse and discharge policy is, and how a complaint gets handled if something goes wrong after move-in.
