About this Sober House
Snelling House Sober Living is a men's sober house on Snelling Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in Ramsey County, whose seat is the city itself. It is operated by Elite Recovery, a Saint Paul provider that runs outpatient treatment alongside its recovery residences.
A Men's Sober House on the Snelling Avenue Corridor
Snelling Avenue is one of the two or three streets in Saint Paul that a resident without a car should care about. Metro Transit's A Line bus rapid transit runs its length, meeting the Green Line at Snelling and University, which puts downtown Saint Paul, the University of Minnesota and downtown Minneapolis on a single fare. Work, an outpatient group and a home group meeting are all reachable from here on a bus pass, and that is the constraint most men in early recovery are actually solving for.
Private Rooms and the Cost of This Saint Paul Recovery Residence
The house is built around single rooms, and the operator prices them from $550 to $600 per month depending on amenities, with a one-time $160 deposit. A private room changes the experience of sober living considerably. Sleep is the first thing to stabilize after treatment, and a man on second shift or an early construction start is not fighting a roommate's schedule to get it.
Medication and the House Rules for Men in Recovery
The house asks residents to participate in a 12-Step fellowship, and it accepts residents on MAT and Suboxone case by case. That second policy matters. A man on a prescribed medication for opioid use disorder who loses housing over it often loses the medication with it, so the question belongs in the first phone call, along with what the prescribing arrangement has to look like.
Recovery Housing in Ramsey County's Capital City
Saint Paul is both the county seat and the state capital, and the practical effect on a resident is density of services. Ramsey County human services, the courts, county probation, several outpatient providers and Regions Hospital sit inside a few square miles. Someone arriving from a treatment center out in greater Minnesota usually finds that a Saint Paul sober house is the nearest address that reaches all of it without a car.
Certification for Minnesota Sober Homes
Certification of recovery residences in Minnesota runs through the Minnesota Association of Sober Homes and is voluntary under state law. Its standards give an applicant a good list of questions for any house: what the fee covers in writing, what the house rules say, what happens after a relapse, and where a complaint goes if the house cannot settle it.
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.
