About this Recovery House
The H.O.U.S.E. – Silver Creek is a coed recovery residence in Webb City, Missouri, in Jasper County, operated by The H.O.U.S.E., Inc., a southwest Missouri recovery housing organization founded in 1996.
A Silver Creek Sober House Serving the Joplin Area
Silver Creek is a village on the southwest edge of Joplin, and this house carries its name into The H.O.U.S.E. group. The residents it draws come from across the metro: people finishing treatment in Joplin, people leaving the Jasper County jail, people who moved in from one of the rural counties nearby because this corridor is where the work is. The house is coed and runs on one shared set of expectations.
Accreditation and What It Means in Missouri Recovery Housing
Missouri has no statute requiring a sober living home to be accredited. The Department of Mental Health licenses treatment programs, and standalone recovery residences fall outside that. The only voluntary standard in the state comes from the Missouri Coalition of Recovery Support Providers, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences, and a full guide to certifying a sober living home with MCRSP sets out what a house commits to when it takes that on. A resident comparing houses in Jasper County should understand that the absence of a voluntary credential says nothing about whether a house is well run, and the presence of one gives an outside complaint process.
How This Recovery Home Operates
The organization is peer-founded and peer-run. Residents live together, follow the same rules, pay the same weekly fee and are answerable to each other. Treatment, counseling and prescriptions come from providers elsewhere in the metro. The house is the stable half of the arrangement, the part that stays constant while somebody rebuilds a work history and a routine.
Recovery Housing Across the Jasper County Line
Webb City is a few minutes from the Newton County line and from the Kansas state line, which matters more here than it would elsewhere. The Joplin metro spans two Missouri counties and reaches into Kansas and Oklahoma, so residents commonly work, attend meetings and see providers across those lines. Jasper County itself runs courts in Carthage and Joplin and holds the region's hospitals and university. A Webb City sober house sits at the center of that footprint.
What to Confirm Before Moving In
Placement runs through The H.O.U.S.E., Inc. Confirm the weekly fee and the move-in deposit, the curfew, whether a manager lives on site, the medication policy, and what the house does after a relapse. Ask for it in writing. That request is reasonable at any recovery residence and a good house has the answers ready.
ABOUT US
The founder of The H.O.U.S.E., Inc. had over twenty years in program development in Transitional Housing for homeless recovering alcoholics and addicts. Now, recovery centers, the VA, and the local community look to H.O.U.S.E., Inc. for shelter, volunteer services, as well as our successful experience in transitional housing and providing support services. An added strength is the Missouri State Access To Recovery Program that makes it possible to provide a variety of support services to resident clients and community clients.
The H.O.U.S.E. Inc, has been in operation since September 27, 1996. Today we own and operate a total of seven residential houses, and all are located in the cities of Joplin, Webb City, and Jasper County, Missouri. We currently have a capacity for 157 residents
