Kai House Women's Sober House

About this Sober House

Kai House is a women's sober living home on Carroll Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in Ramsey County. Journey's Homes operates it along with Terry House, a second women's residence in the same part of the city.

A Women's Sober House Between Lexington and Hamline

Carroll Avenue is a quiet residential street running parallel to University Avenue through the Lexington-Hamline and Union Park neighborhoods. Residents get a calm block and a two or three block walk to the Green Line and the University Avenue bus corridor, which reach downtown Saint Paul in one direction and the University of Minnesota and Minneapolis in the other. Work, meetings and appointments stay reachable without a car.

Single-Gender Housing and What It Settles

The house serves women only. That restriction resolves a set of practical questions before anyone asks them: who shares a bathroom, who is in the house during the day, whose visitors are permitted, and what the house meeting feels like. For women whose substance use history is bound up with unsafe relationships, a single-gender household is often the condition that makes the first months of recovery workable.

Two Sober Homes Under One Saint Paul Operator

Journey's Homes runs this house and Terry House, both women's residences in Saint Paul, and both close to the University Avenue corridor. A small operator with two houses can move a resident between them when the fit is wrong, and the person making that call already knows her. Applications go to the operator directly.

Recovery Housing in Saint Paul and Ramsey County

As the county seat and the state capital, Saint Paul concentrates what a woman rebuilding a routine has to reach: Ramsey County human services, the courts, probation, child protection, outpatient clinics and Regions Hospital. Meeting schedules in the city are dense enough that a resident can find a home group within walking distance of almost any address near University Avenue.

What to Verify Before Moving Into This Recovery Residence

Ask for the monthly fee and what it includes, the deposit and its return terms, the room assignment, the house rules, the medication policy and the written relapse and discharge policy. Minnesota's certification program for sober homes through the Minnesota Association of Sober Homes is voluntary, so those documents are worth requesting from every house on an applicant's list.