About this Recovery House
Turtle Mountain Recovery Center is a coed recovery residence in Belcourt, North Dakota, in Rolette County. Adults live on site while receiving substance use disorder treatment, and the center runs outpatient services alongside the residential program. It opened in late 2024 and is owned by the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians.
A Tribally Owned Recovery Residence in the Turtle Mountains
Belcourt is the seat of government for the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and the population center of the reservation, in the wooded hill country along the Manitoba border. The tribal council bought the land and paid for the building, and construction ran from 2022 to the opening in late 2024. That ownership is the defining fact about this recovery home. Decisions about who it serves and how it operates are made by the community it serves, on the reservation, by a government answerable to the people living there.
Recovery Housing Grounded in Chippewa Practice
The center's program is built on the White Bison curriculum, a Native American approach to recovery that frames sobriety inside cultural identity and community obligation. For a tribal member, that is a different proposition from a program written elsewhere and delivered on the reservation. The center describes its work as culturally grounded and evidence based at the same time, and it combines residential and outpatient services under one roof, so a resident can step down into outpatient care without changing providers or leaving the community. Telehealth extends the outpatient side to people who cannot get to Belcourt every week.
What the Recovery Housing Assistance Program Covers at This Recovery Home
The center is one of four providers in North Dakota participating in the Recovery Housing Assistance Program, run by the Behavioral Health Division of the state Department of Health and Human Services. The program covers up to twelve weeks of living expenses for an eligible resident at a participating home, paid to the provider. For someone leaving detox or jail with nothing, that funding is what makes a bed available at all. It also puts a tribal program inside the same state funding stream as the recovery homes in Fargo and Minot, which means a resident here is not choosing between cultural fit and a placement the state will pay for.
Belcourt Recovery Housing and the Rolette County Region
Rolette County is rural and remote, roughly an hour north of the U.S. Highway 2 corridor and a long way from any city. Rolla is the county seat; Belcourt is the larger community and holds the tribal government, the Quentin N. Burdick Memorial Health Care Facility and the tribal college. For a resident, that concentration means medical care, behavioral health services and school are all in the same town as the housing. It also means the alternative to a bed in Belcourt is usually a bed in Minot or Grand Forks, hours away from family. Coed housing on the reservation keeps people in recovery inside their own community during the period when leaving it does the most damage.
Applying to This Belcourt Recovery Residence
The street address is not published, and admission runs through the center. Because this is a residential treatment setting as well as recovery housing, the intake conversation covers clinical questions a peer-run sober house would not ask. The things worth establishing early: what the length of stay is, whether the program accepts non-tribal members, whether medication for opioid use disorder is supported, what the cost is after the assistance program ends, how the step down into outpatient care works, and what family involvement looks like during the stay.
