About this Sober House
Renewal Recovery Residence - Parkhill is a sober living home in Billings, Montana, in Yellowstone County. Operated by STEP Inc., it is certified at Level 2 and sits in the 59102 ZIP on the Billings West End.
A Sober Living Home on the Billings West End
The West End is the residential half of Billings, running from the edge of downtown out past Rimrock Mall. Grand Avenue and King Avenue West carry the grocery stores, clinics, restaurants and retail employers, and MET Transit serves both. For a resident of a West End recovery home, work and errands are close, the streets are quiet after dark, and the bars and corners that used to shape an evening are somewhere else in the city.
RAM Level 2 Certification and This Sober House
Certification is held with Recovery Access Montana, the state's recovery residence certifying body, at Level 2. That tier means a monitored household: someone carries responsibility for the house day to day, expectations around curfew, chores, meetings and substance use are written down, and drug screening is part of the model. It also means the operator has accepted a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, and a complaint route that leads outside the house. Montana certification is voluntary, so a house that carries it has chosen to be measured.
A Track Record in Billings Recovery Housing
STEP reports supporting more than 12,800 days in recovery across its Renewal Recovery Residences in 2025, with over 50 residents living in seven homes. Numbers at that scale describe something a single house cannot: an operator with enough beds to place people quickly, enough turnover data to know what works, and enough continuity that staff have seen the same problems before.
Seven Renewal Recovery Residences, One Application
STEP takes one application for its Billings houses and a separate one for its residence in Red Lodge. An applicant to the Billings group is considered across the set, which shortens the wait and lets the operator match a person to a household. Moving between houses later is an internal decision, and the fee structure and expectations travel with the resident.
Life in a West End Recovery Home
A recovery residence is housing with rules and company, and both parts do work. The rules make the environment predictable, which is what a nervous system coming off substances needs. The company supplies the accountability nobody can generate alone: housemates notice when someone skips a meeting, stops going to work or stops talking. STEP describes the residences as a place to build positive friendships that reinforce the decision to stay abstinent, and that is the mechanism.
