About this Recovery House
Jochebed's House is a women's sober living home in Jefferson City, Missouri, in Cole County, accredited by the Missouri Coalition of Recovery Support Providers and run by The Healing House and New Beginnings, Inc.
A Women's Sober House Named From Scripture
Jochebed is the mother of Moses in the book of Exodus, the woman who hid her son and then handed him to someone who could keep him alive. A Christian recovery ministry naming a women's house after her is making a statement about who the house is for and what it thinks it is doing. Prospective residents can read that as intended. The house serves women in recovery, and the faith framing runs through the household.
Accredited Recovery Housing in a State That Does Not Require It
Missouri has no statute obliging a recovery residence to meet any standard, and the Department of Mental Health licenses treatment programs, not sober living. Accreditation through Missouri's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences is entirely voluntary. A house that carries it has agreed to written fee and rule disclosure, a code of ethics, a documented relapse and discharge policy, and outside complaint review. For a woman comparing houses over the phone from a treatment bed, that is the difference between a claim and a record.
Placement Through the Operator
The address of this residence is not published, and inquiries go through the ministry, which runs several women's homes in Jefferson City and decides where an applicant fits. That arrangement is common in women's recovery housing and it is often deliberate, since a published address for a house full of women leaving violent situations creates a problem the operator would rather not have. A woman is told where she is going once she is accepted.
Women's Recovery Homes in Jefferson City
Mid-Missouri's recovery housing is thin outside Columbia and Jefferson City, and women's beds are the scarcer half of it. Jefferson City holds the state government, the Cole County courthouse, two hospital systems, Lincoln University and the outpatient providers serving several surrounding counties. A woman living in recovery housing here can reach a probation appointment, a clinic, a class and a job without leaving the city, and the Missouri River bridge to Callaway County puts a second labor market fifteen minutes away.
Questions Worth Asking This Recovery Residence
Ask what is required of residents each week, how the faith component is handled for someone who does not share it, what the fee is and what it covers, whether children are permitted, and whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted. An accredited house should answer all of it in writing before anyone signs.
