Victory House Men's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Victory House is a men's sober living home in Columbia, Missouri, the seat of Boone County, operated by Fresh Start Sober Living Programs and accredited by the Missouri Coalition of Recovery Support Providers.

A Men's Sober House for the Year After Treatment

The house takes men who have completed detox or residential treatment, or who are coming out of the county jail or a state facility, and gives them somewhere predictable to live while the rest of a life gets rebuilt. Expectations start on day one. Work, school or steady volunteering, a curfew, house meetings and sobriety are the terms.

What Accreditation Adds to a Missouri Recovery Residence

Missouri leaves sober living unregulated, so accreditation through MCRSP does the work a licensing scheme would do elsewhere. It requires a published code of ethics, written fee and rule disclosure before anyone moves in, a written relapse and discharge policy, and complaint review that does not stop at the house manager. A house on the roster has taken that on voluntarily.

Peer Recovery and the Fresh Start Clubhouse

Alongside its houses, the operator runs a clubhouse and a social calendar, which addresses the part of early recovery nobody plans for. Evenings and weekends are when people relapse, and a program that puts something in that space is doing something a lease cannot. Residents also have access to peer respite, recovery support services and naloxone.

Boone County Courts, Hospitals and a Men's Recovery Home

Columbia holds the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit and the Boone County Courthouse, MU Health Care and Boone Health, and the University of Missouri. A man on probation with a treatment condition and a job requirement can satisfy all three inside the city, on the bus, in one day. That is the practical argument for recovery housing in a county seat.

Applying to This Columbia Recovery Residence

The street address is not published and Fresh Start handles placement. Ask what is open, what the weekly fee covers, whether the room is shared, the curfew and guest rules, and what the operator offers a resident who is ready to move into permanent housing.