About this Recovery House
Endeavor Sober Living is a coed sober living home in Arnegard, North Dakota, in McKenzie County. It sits on Longview Drive, a few miles west of Watford City, the county seat, and it is one of four providers in the state funded through North Dakota's Recovery Housing Assistance Program.
A Coed Sober House in the Bakken
This sober house serves men and women in recovery in the same household, which is uncommon in a state where most recovery homes take one gender. For a couple in recovery together, or for someone who would otherwise leave McKenzie County entirely to find a bed, that changes the shape of the decision. Arnegard is a small city on U.S. Highway 85, the road that carries most of the Bakken's traffic, and Watford City is close enough that a job, a court date and an outpatient appointment do not each require moving.
How the Recovery Housing Assistance Program Pays for This Sober Living Home
Endeavor participates in the Recovery Housing Assistance Program run by the Behavioral Health Division of the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services. The program covers up to twelve weeks of living expenses for an eligible resident at a participating home. That is the most useful fact on this listing for anyone leaving treatment or jail without money and without an address. Twelve weeks is long enough to find work, get through the lag before the first paychecks land, and take over the rent without a single missed payment ending the placement. The state pays participating providers directly, so the money never has to pass through the hands of someone in their first weeks of sobriety, and a provider the state already funds has agreed to a reporting relationship with the division that oversees behavioral health services across North Dakota.
Recovery Homes in McKenzie County and the Oil Patch
McKenzie County's housing market moves with drilling activity, and that is the practical problem a recovery home here solves. When rigs are running, a room in Watford City costs what an apartment costs in a larger city, and a person in early recovery competes for it against crews with company housing budgets behind them. When activity drops, the jobs go first and the rooms stay expensive for a while afterward. A fixed weekly cost inside a sober living home insulates a resident from both halves of that cycle. Watford City holds the county courthouse, the hospital and the school district, so most of the obligations that follow someone out of treatment are concentrated a short drive east on Highway 85.
Endeavor Sober Living Recovery Homes in North Dakota
The operator runs a second residence in Minot, on the state's northern tier, that serves women only. A woman who needs a single-gender household, or who has family and work ties closer to Minot, can raise a move with the same people who handled her first application. Both homes take Recovery Housing Assistance Program placements, so a transfer between them does not interrupt the funding that got a resident housed in the first place.
What to Ask Before Moving Into This Arnegard Sober House
Applications go directly to Endeavor Sober Living. The questions worth asking are the ones a resident would otherwise read off a certificate: what the weekly fee covers and what it does not, whether a house manager lives on site, how bedrooms are assigned in a coed house, what happens after a relapse, whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted, and how the Recovery Housing Assistance Program application is handled and who files it. A provider the state already pays should have all of those answers in writing.
