About this Sober House
Scrappies House is a recovery home in Polson, Montana, in Lake County, run by Never Alone Recovery Support Services as part of its Safe and Off the Streets residential program. The house sits in the Mission Valley of northwest Montana on the Flathead Indian Reservation, with the county seat and its services in the same town. The operator does not publish the street address, and placement is arranged through it.
A Gender-Specific Sober House in the Mission Valley
Never Alone runs its residential facilities as single-gender households, and the beds are split across men's and women's houses in the program. That split is doing real work in a county this size. House rules, meetings and shared space are written for one population, and a resident in early sobriety is not negotiating a mixed building on top of everything else. The operator does not discriminate on ethnicity, religion, gender identity or sexual orientation.
Living in a Social Model Recovery Residence
The social model puts the community in charge of the day. A senior peer mentor lives in the house, community meetings handle standards and conflicts, and staff step in when residents ask for them. Clinical components are delivered by outside agencies, so a resident keeps an outside counselor and prescriber and brings the treatment plan home instead of receiving care in the living room. The stated aims are blunt: cut the isolation, build a recovery support system, and buy a resident time to learn skills that were never practiced sober.
Employment and the Sixty-Day Rule in This Sober Living Home
Residents are expected to get a job or enroll full time in school, with sixty days from move-in to comply and thirty days to recover if employment ends. Exceptions exist for intensive outpatient programming and serious disability, and in those cases volunteer community service takes the place of work. The program fee is $500 a month. Failing to meet the work or school expectation ends the placement, which tells a prospective resident exactly what the house is organized around.
How Montana Oversees Recovery Homes
Two records exist in this state and they mean different things. Registration with the Department of Public Health and Human Services has been mandatory for every Montana recovery residence since October 2023. Certification through Recovery Access Montana is voluntary and binds a residence to a code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules, and outside complaint review. Never Alone operates its recovery residence programs to national standards and has them certified annually.
Applying to This Polson Recovery Home
The operator takes applications for all of its houses and decides which address a resident goes to, so the first conversation is about fit and availability at once. Useful questions: which facility currently has an opening, whether the house manager will screen an applicant who is still in treatment, what the fee covers, how quickly employment is expected, and what the discharge policy says. Getting the answers in writing before move-in is the point of the standards the program works under.
