Outdoor House Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Outdoor House is a women's sober living home in Branson, Missouri, in Taney County, certified by the Missouri Coalition of Recovery Support Providers.

A Women's Sober House in the Ozarks

Outdoor House is where women live while working through the one-year residential recovery program run by Communities of Recovery, INC, known as CORE. Housing at Outdoor House is single-gender only, and CORE's rules bar men from the property entirely, which keeps common space, meetings and daily routine built around one population.

What MCRSP Certification Means Here

CORE holds certification through the Missouri Coalition of Recovery Support Providers, Missouri's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. That status means Outdoor House operates under a written code of ethics, discloses its fees and house rules before a resident moves in, and answers to a complaint process outside the house. Certification in Missouri is entirely voluntary, so the choice to carry it says something about how the operator wants to be held accountable.

Daily Expectations at Outdoor House

Women at Outdoor House are expected to resolve pending legal issues and actively seek employment, and CORE tests residents for drugs both randomly and on request. Any drug or alcohol use on the property results in immediate discharge, with a thirty-day wait before reapplying. Residents who have not finished high school work toward a GED as part of the program, and CORE arranges transportation for work, classes and medical care.

Recovery Housing in Taney County

Branson is Taney County's largest city, though Forsyth serves as the county seat, and the local tourism and hospitality industry gives women at Outdoor House a wide base of entry-level jobs to draw on while meeting the program's employment requirement. Steady seasonal demand for workers is one advantage of building a recovery program in a destination town.

CORE's Two Recovery Homes in Branson

Outdoor House is the women's counterpart to Bird House, CORE's men's residence, and both operate under the same rules on testing, employment and legal compliance. CORE has run residential recovery housing in the Branson area since opening its first house in 1998, and Outdoor House carries that same program forward for women today.