About this Recovery House
Green Hill Recovery is a men's transitional living house in Raleigh, North Carolina, in Wake County, at 723 W Johnson St. It is the residential arm of Green Hill Recovery, a Joint Commission accredited treatment provider whose clinical offices sit a few miles northwest on St Giles Street, and it is built specifically around young men in their first year of recovery.
Built for the First Year, Not the First Month
Green Hill's transitional living program is designed for a young man's first year after treatment rather than a short stabilizing stay. That framing matters. The first twelve months are when relapse risk is highest and when the practical scaffolding of an adult life — school, a job, a licence, a bank account, friendships that do not revolve around using — either gets rebuilt or does not. A house that plans for a year can support that work; a house that plans for six weeks generally cannot.
Clinical Care Attached to the House
Because the same organization runs the housing and the treatment, residents can move between levels of care without changing providers. Green Hill operates a partial hospitalization program five days a week and an intensive outpatient program three days a week, with morning and evening options, staffed by licensed clinicians treating both substance use and co-occurring mental health conditions. Psychiatry, medication management including Sublocade and Vivitrol, and individual, group and family therapy are available through the same organization. For a resident, that means a step down in intensity does not mean starting over with a new clinical team.
Joint Commission Accredited
Green Hill holds Joint Commission accreditation, the same accrediting body used by hospitals and health systems. Accreditation is not the same thing as recovery residence certification, and it is worth understanding the difference: it speaks to the clinical programming rather than to the house standards that the North Carolina Association of Recovery Residences certifies. Green Hill does not publish an NCARR certification status, and none is recorded here.
Recovery as Something You Do, Not Only Something You Attend
The program builds its recovery engagement around passion projects, sports, outdoor trips, art and culture, and service opportunities, alongside education and career goals. For young men whose social life had been organized around substances, replacing that with something they actually want to do is usually the difference between a year of white-knuckling and a year of building.
Who Should Look at This Raleigh Recovery House
This is a men's house and a young adult program. A man who wants clinical treatment and housing under one roof, and who is prepared for a year rather than a season, is the resident it is designed for. Someone who wants an inexpensive peer-run house with minimal structure should look elsewhere in Raleigh.
The Green Hill experience is fundamentally therapeutic. With centering clinical work, our residents manifest their identity into everyday life. After inpatient care, the best treatment encompasses clinical work addressing all facets of problematic substance use. This beginning phase of recovery requires opportunities to build insight and self-efficacy that will extend beyond the confines of treatment. Green Hill's intensive outpatient program supports residents to build an empowered way of life with up to 15 hours of weekly individual, family, and group therapy. Here, recovery residents connect to their strengths, the emotional underpinnings of their substance use, barriers to enriching relationships, and the skills to guide their future success.
Our Philosophy
Recovery residents in our sober living program explore their academic and professional goals through mindful contemplation of themselves, their strengths, and their current situations. We believe this process starts early in recovery, by uncovering motivations and mastering skills, which lays the foundation for a strong recovery and prosperous life. This approach empowers residents to carefully ground their success in recovery, freeing them to ask, “What's next?†with newfound hope and confidence.
