About this Recovery House
The Randy Scarborough House is a men's recovery residence in Galloway, New Jersey, in Atlantic County. It shares the Hansen Foundation's East Jimmie Leeds Road campus with the organization's women's house, and it operates as its own household with its own residents, its own meetings and its own manager. The name belongs to a person, which tells you something about how this organization thinks about its houses.
A Men's Sober House on the Jimmie Leeds Road Campus
A campus arrangement gives men something a standalone house cannot. The building is a single-gender household, so the daily texture of the place is the same as any men's sober house, and the wider site puts staff, other residents and the organization's programming within walking distance. Galloway Township is a spread-out municipality of woods, lakes and subdivisions on the Atlantic County mainland, and the Jimmie Leeds corridor is its one dense stretch of institutions. Living on it removes the transportation problem that defeats a lot of early recovery in South Jersey.
How New Jersey Regulates This Kind of Sober Living
Recovery housing in New Jersey runs on a license, not a certification. The Department of Community Affairs licenses cooperative sober living residences as Class F facilities under the Bureau of Rooming and Boarding House Standards, and that license is compulsory for any house operating in the category. The Hansen Foundation holds Department of Community Affairs licenses on its recovery housing. Absence from the state's Class F list means nothing on its own, since a residence may legally sit under another rooming and boarding class or under clinical licensure from the Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services. The practical advice for a family is to ask which license a house holds and to read the Bureau of Rooming and Boarding House Standards page before assuming a badge on a website means anything.
Work, Chores and Phases in This Atlantic County Recovery Home
Every Hansen Foundation residence expects the same things of the men living in it: attendance at the weekly house meeting, a twelve-step meeting each week, chores, volunteer hours, and either a job or a real search for one. Residents advance through a phase program as they accumulate time. The employment requirement is the one that shapes daily life most. It means the house fills with men who leave in the morning and come back tired, and it means anyone arriving without a plan for the day gets about a month before the house expects one.
Men's Recovery Housing and the Atlantic City Job Market
Atlantic County's economy still turns on the shore. Casinos, hotels, restaurants and the seasonal trades hire at entry level, hire quickly, and hire people with gaps in a resume, which is why so much of South Jersey's recovery housing sits within reach of Atlantic City. From Galloway, Route 30 and Route 9 run east into the city, and NJ Transit's Atlantic City Line serves the mainland towns. Stockton University and AtlantiCare's Pomona campus add year-round employers a few minutes from the door. Men in recovery housing in this county rarely have to choose between staying near their program and getting a paycheck.
Questions Worth Asking This Sober House Before You Apply
Applications go through the Hansen Foundation itself. The useful questions are the ones the organization can answer in specifics:
- What the weekly fee covers, what is due at move-in, and what happens to a deposit.
- Which phase a new resident enters and what moves him to the next one.
- Whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted, and under what conditions.
- What the house does after a relapse, and whether a discharged resident can return.
- Whether a transfer to another of the organization's residences is possible.
A licensed operator with ten residences in one county has settled answers to all five, and getting them in writing before move-in is the whole point of dealing with an organization instead of a landlord.
Our Mission
The Hansen Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide affordable, long-term, safe recovery residences, Â access to treatment, community programs, and the tools needed to lead healthy productive lives for people both new to and in long-term recovery. Â We advocate for persons with substance use disorders to reduce stigma in communities we serve while incorporating education about holistic wellness and sustainable recovery practices.
Our Vision
To see the Hansen Foundation be recognized as a national leader in Recovery Housing and Recovery Resources for those affected by the disease of addiction and their families. To maintain a strong 12-step philosophy while continuing to incorporate innovative techniques for a conscious sustainable recovery community.
