Meraki Recovery Housing - Ham Lake #3 Men's Sober House

About this Sober House

Meraki Recovery Housing - Ham Lake #3 is a men's sober house in Ham Lake, Minnesota, in Anoka County, ten miles from the county seat at Anoka. It carries a Certificate of Compliance from the Minnesota Association of Sober Homes. No street address is published for the residence, and applications are handled by the operator.

A Certified Men's Recovery Residence in Ham Lake

Certification is voluntary in Minnesota, so a certified house in a small suburban city is a deliberate act. MASH measures a residence against the NARR Quality Standards and issues a single Certificate of Compliance. The commitments behind it are concrete. Fees and house rules go to the applicant in writing before he signs. A relapse and discharge policy exists on paper and is applied consistently. The operator works under a published code of ethics, and a complaint can be escalated past the house.

Living in This Ham Lake Sober Living Home

The program is the same one Meraki Recovery Housing runs at every address. Men enter with 28 days of proven sobriety and a clean screen. They attend three recovery meetings a week, commit thirty hours a week to work, school, treatment or volunteering, sit the Sunday house meeting and handle chores twice a week. The fee is $700 a month plus a $250 application fee.

Ham Lake, Anoka County and the Practical Geography

Ham Lake sits between Blaine and East Bethel on the Highway 65 corridor, north of the dense part of the metro and inside the reach of its services. Anoka County's courthouse, probation office and human services are at the county seat. Outpatient providers cluster in Blaine and Coon Rapids. Northstar commuter rail picks up at Anoka and Coon Rapids for anyone working in Minneapolis. A man with court dates, a treatment schedule and a job can service all three from here.

Three Ham Lake Sober Houses Under One Operator

This is the third Meraki men's house in the city, part of an eleven-house network reaching Ramsey, Blaine, Brooklyn Center, Anoka, Coon Rapids and Columbia Heights. A resident who needs a different house for a commute or a fresh set of housemates asks the same office, and the terms do not change.