About this Recovery House
Hilljack House is a coed sober living home on South Grand Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. St. Louis is an independent city, outside any county, and this address sits on the far south side, in the neighborhoods below Carondelet Park.
A South St. Louis Sober House With a Long Record
The organization behind the house was started in 1997 by a group of recovering alcoholics who wanted to hand back the support they had been given, and it has since worked with more than a thousand people. Six residences house forty-six residents in total, and the houses generally run full with a waiting list. That waitlist is the most practical fact on this listing: someone who wants a bed here should apply before the discharge date, not after it.
Twelve-Step Practice Inside This Recovery Residence
The program is explicitly built on twelve-step recovery and sponsorship. Residents attend weekly meetings, work with a sponsor, and sit down monthly with a house manager to set goals covering financial, legal and health obligations. AA meetings are held at the houses themselves. A man or woman who has no interest in a twelve-step framework will find this a poor match, and someone who wants one will find it is the spine of the place instead of an afterthought.
Who Gets Into This St. Louis Recovery Home
The entry bar is published: thirty days clean and sober, a commitment to staying that way, employment, the ability to pay rent and personal expenses, and willingness to build a life plan and work a program. Residents arrive from homeless shelters, from treatment programs and from ordinary households, and the organization is open about serving people across that whole range. Anyone still in withdrawal or unable to work is being asked to sort that out first.
Resources Behind a Nonprofit Sober Living Home
This is a 501(c)(3) governed by a volunteer board that donates time, money and expertise, and it leans on community giving to stay affordable. Beyond the bed, residents get incentive programs and referrals into life skills, employment, education, legal, health and financial services, plus sober social events. Expansion of women's housing is planned. For a resident, the nonprofit structure shows up as a rent that reflects costs and a board that answers for the place.
South Grand and St. Louis Recovery Housing
South Grand Boulevard is one of the city's long north-south spines, and Metro buses run it. From this end of it a resident can reach the south side employers, the city courts, and the outpatient providers clustered closer to the medical corridor without owning a car. St. Louis is its own county for legal purposes, so court business, city services and social services all route through one government instead of two. That simplicity matters to somebody managing a case, a job and a recovery program in the same week.
ABOUT US
Sober individuals thrive when they remain committed to living the principles of recovery. Â Each week, residents are required to attend 12-step meetings, meet with their sponsor, and contribute to the smooth operation of the house. Â
Residents govern themselves under the oversight of an off-site house manager. Â House policies require them to work, pay rent and share chores. Â They participate in a weekly house meeting where they discuss house issues and support one another in recovery.
​An important part of any recovery plan is to begin taking responsibility for financial and family obligations, gainful employment, legal issues, and health matters.  Every month, the house manager meets with individuals to assist with setting goals, creating an action plan, celebrating successes, and discussing ways to overcome challenges.  It is important that those in recovery become accountable for their commitments.
