The 1212 House at 118th and Pacific Men's Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

The 1212 House at 118th and Pacific is a men's recovery home in Omaha, Nebraska, in Douglas County, the western of two houses run by The 1212 House in the city.

State-Funded Sober Living in Omaha

Alongside its private placements, the operator runs a voucher-only program called Programming Life 101, paid for by the state and built to move men in recovery back into the community. Publicly funded recovery housing is uncommon in Nebraska, and it matters to a man leaving treatment or custody with no savings, because the alternative to a funded bed is usually no bed.

Life Skills Inside a Recovery Residence

The program teaches financial management, career development and time management, which are the three things that most often undo a man in his first year out. Group sessions run alongside the classes, giving residents somewhere to work through the addiction itself with people in the same position. The operator describes the program as highly structured, and the structure is the mechanism.

A Second Men's Sober House on the West Side

Running two houses lets the operator place a man where his work and his family already are, and lets him move between households without leaving the organization. Both homes provide a three-quarter environment and both are stated to be free of drugs, alcohol and violence.

Sober Living in Nebraska Without a Certifying Body

Nebraska certifies no recovery residences, keeps no registry and has no affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. What can be weighed here is an operator running in the same city since 2001, having housed more than three thousand men, with a state-funded route in for those who cannot pay. Applications and questions about openings go to the operator directly.