About this Recovery House
DB House - Market Street is a men's sober living home in Elmwood Park, New Jersey, in Bergen County, whose seat is Hackensack. It is one of eleven residences run by DB House Sober Living across Bergen and Passaic counties, and four of those, including this one, sit inside Elmwood Park itself.
A Men's Sober House on Market Street
This is a men's house, and the restriction settles the household. Bedrooms, bathrooms, common space and the house meeting are all single gender, and one set of expectations covers everyone living there. Market Street runs through the middle of Elmwood Park, a borough of about twenty thousand people wedged between the Passaic River, Route 46 and the Garden State Parkway. The neighborhood is ordinary residential Bergen County, which is what most men leaving treatment are looking for. Nothing about the street announces what the house is.
The New Jersey License Behind This Recovery Residence
DB House operates its houses as licensed Class F cooperative sober living residences. That license comes from the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs under the rooming and boarding house standards, and it is not optional for the houses it covers: state rules bar anyone from operating a rooming or boarding house without one. New Jersey has no recovery residence certification and no active NARR affiliate, so in this state the DCA license is the credential a resident can actually verify. An explainer on whether you need a license to open a sober living home in New Jersey lays out what the license requires of an operator.
Twelve Step Structure Inside This Elmwood Park Sober Living Home
The program is built on twelve step principles and a peer recovery community, which shapes the rhythm of the week more than any single rule does. Men living here are in a house where meeting attendance and sponsorship are the norm and where the other residents are doing the same thing. The operator publishes its rules, guidelines and a what-to-bring list before move-in, so an applicant can read the terms in advance. Costs are quoted separately and are worth confirming with the operator directly, along with deposit and notice terms.
Reaching Work, Treatment and Meetings From This Bergen County Recovery Home
Elmwood Park is a good address for someone without a car. NJ Transit buses run the Route 4 and Route 46 corridors toward Paterson, Hackensack and the George Washington Bridge, and the bridge puts Manhattan inside a single transfer. Bergen County's courts and county offices are in Hackensack, a short trip east. Bergen Community College is in Paramus, and the retail and warehouse work along Routes 4, 17 and 46 is the largest source of entry-level jobs in the county. DB House also makes referrals into outpatient care, from detoxification through intensive outpatient programs, and accepts major insurance for that clinical side.
DB House Sober Living Recovery Homes Nearby
Three other DB House residences sit in Elmwood Park, on Lincoln Avenue, River Drive and Van Riper Avenue. The operator also runs houses in Paterson, Fair Lawn, Saddle Brook, Wallington and New Brunswick, and the Fair Lawn and Saddle Brook addresses are the women's homes. For a man on Market Street, the practical effect of that footprint is that a transfer is an internal conversation. The job, the outpatient program and the meeting list can stay where they are.
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What we provide
1.Community Environment
Surrounded by people working towards a sober life with sober feet.
2.Peace and Serenity
Remove yourself from a toxic environment filled with associations of your past use.
3.Self Discovery
Allowing yourself the separation required to learn about your disease
