About this Sober House
Meraki Recovery Housing - Ham Lake #2 is a men's recovery home in Ham Lake, Minnesota, in Anoka County, whose seat and courthouse are at Anoka. It is the second of three Meraki houses in the city. The operator publishes no street address for the residence, and placement runs through Meraki Recovery Housing.
What This Ham Lake Sober House Costs to Live In
The program fee is $700 a month and the application fee is $250. Published pricing is more useful in recovery housing than it appears on paper, because the first months out of treatment are usually the months a resident has the least cash and the least stable income. Knowing the number before applying lets a man work out whether his first two paychecks cover the deposit and the first month, and lets a counselor referring him do the same arithmetic.
Entry Standards at This Men's Sober Living Home
Entry requires 28 days of proven sobriety and a negative screen. The house then expects three recovery meetings a week, thirty hours of productive activity, attendance at the Sunday house meeting and chores twice a week. Men who arrive from residential treatment or from a county program tend to meet the entry bar automatically. Someone coming off a short relapse usually needs to bank the clean time somewhere else first.
Recovery Housing in the North Suburbs of Anoka County
Ham Lake is quiet, largely residential and spread out, and it sits inside a county with real recovery infrastructure: outpatient providers in Blaine and Coon Rapids, the Anoka County human services offices, and the Northstar stations at Anoka and Coon Rapids for anyone commuting to Minneapolis. That mix gives a resident a calm address without cutting him off from the appointments and the jobs he needs.
Certification and Minnesota Sober Living Standards
Minnesota certifies recovery residences through the Minnesota Association of Sober Homes on a voluntary basis, and the standards it applies are worth knowing whichever house someone chooses. They cover written fee and rule disclosure before move-in, a documented relapse and discharge policy, a published code of ethics, and an external complaint process. Any applicant can ask a house for those four things directly.
The Meraki Recovery Housing Network
Eleven residences operate under the Meraki name across Anoka and Hennepin counties, in Ham Lake, Blaine, Ramsey, Brooklyn Center, Anoka, Coon Rapids and Columbia Heights. Residents move between them without renegotiating the fee or the rules.
Sober living homes are group residences for people who are recovering from addiction. In most instances, people who live in sober homes have to follow certain house rules and contribute to the home by doing chores. Most importantly, residents must stay sober throughout their stay in the home.
