Amy House Women's Sober House

About this Sober House

Amy House is a women's sober house in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the seat of Ramsey County and the state capital. It is part of the Abode program run by Elite Recovery, a Saint Paul organization providing outpatient treatment and recovery housing. The street address is not published for the residence, and placement runs through the operator.

A Small Women's Recovery Residence

The house has five bedrooms and three bathrooms. Numbers that small decide the character of a sober living home more than any policy does. Everyone knows everyone, the bathroom schedule is workable on a weekday morning, and a resident having a hard week is visible to the household instead of lost in it. Women who do poorly in large congregate settings often do well in a house this size.

What This Saint Paul Sober Living Home Costs

Elite Recovery publishes a rate of $750 per month for Amy House, with a deposit quoted at $150 or $300. A prospective resident should confirm which deposit applies to her before move-in, and what the fee covers in the way of utilities, food and household supplies. Those answers should come in writing.

Housing Attached to a Treatment Provider

Elite Recovery runs intensive outpatient and extended outpatient programming, diagnostic and comprehensive assessments, individual therapy and medication management out of Saint Paul, and it houses residents through the Abode program. For a woman leaving residential treatment, that pairing removes a common failure point: the housing and the clinical schedule are arranged by people who talk to each other, and a change in one does not silently break the other.

Ramsey County Recovery Housing and Daily Life

Saint Paul concentrates the things a woman rebuilding a routine has to reach. County human services, the courts, child protection caseworkers, outpatient clinics and Regions Hospital are all inside the city, and Metro Transit's Green Line and the A Line connect the corridors between them. A resident can hold a job, keep a weekly appointment and make a court date without owning a car.

Questions to Ask Before Moving Into a Women's Sober House

The useful questions are the ones a house should answer in writing: whether a manager lives on site, how rooms are assigned, whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted and under what conditions, what the fee covers, and what happens after a relapse. Minnesota's voluntary certification program through the Minnesota Association of Sober Homes exists to put exactly those answers on paper, and any applicant can ask for them directly.

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