About this Recovery House
Hope Manor is a coed sober living home on South 1st Street in Bismarck, North Dakota, the seat of Burleigh County. The Hope Manor Foundation has run housing here since January 2014, and residents pay a participation fee of $300 bimonthly toward the cost of the household. Men and women live under the same set of expectations: find work or enroll in school, cook your own meals, get to 12-step meetings, and stay long enough for the routine to take hold.
A Coed Sober Living Home on South 1st Street
South 1st Street runs through the older residential grid on the south side of Bismarck, inside the part of the city where a resident without a car can still function. That matters in the first weeks, when a job is new, a license may be suspended and every appointment is one someone else scheduled. A coed household also means the house is not sorting applicants by gender before it looks at whether they are ready, which widens the door in a city where structured beds are limited.
House Rules at This Bismarck Sober House
The foundation publishes the core expectations for everyone living in its housing:
- Find employment or enroll in school.
- Prepare your own meals.
- Attend 12-step meetings.
- Stay a minimum of three months.
- Pay the participation fee on schedule.
Read together, those five lines describe a house for someone who is already able to hold a day together and needs the day to be predictable. Anyone requiring clinical supervision on site is a poor fit.
What Residents Pay for This Recovery Housing
The participation fee is $300 bimonthly. Naming the figure is useful because the first question anyone leaving treatment asks is whether they can afford the address, and a published number lets them answer it before they apply. Cooking your own meals is part of the same arithmetic. The house is not a program that feeds you; it is housing you help run, and the fee reflects that.
Length of Stay in a Bismarck Recovery Home
Three months is the floor. Hope Manor recommends nine months to a year, and the gap between those two numbers is the most honest thing on its website. Ninety days gets a resident through the period when relapse risk is highest and a routine is still fragile. A year is long enough to hold a job, rebuild a record and save money, which is what actually determines whether the next address holds. Very few sober houses say this plainly, and a prospective resident should read the recommendation as the real expectation.
The Hub and the Hope Manor Recovery Housing Community
The foundation also operates The Hub Community Recovery Center, a meeting space in Bismarck open beyond the people living in its housing. A resident of the South 1st Street home therefore walks into a recovery community that already exists, with meetings, familiar faces and a place to be that is not the house. For someone new to the city, that shortens the loneliest stretch of early sobriety considerably.
Recovery Housing in Burleigh and Morton Counties
Bismarck is the state capital and the seat of Burleigh County, and it faces Mandan across the Missouri River in Morton County. The two cities share one labor market, one bus system and one set of outpatient providers, so a resident here is inside a metro area of real depth by North Dakota standards. State offices, the district court, Bismarck State College and the region's hospitals all fall within that footprint. People coming out of treatment in the smaller towns of south-central North Dakota generally find Bismarck recovery housing is the nearest address within reach of all of it.
More on the recovery home
The Hope Manor Foundation serves the recovery community by sponsoring Hope Manor Sober Living Homes and gives support to newly recovering alcoholics and addicts.
Others who chose to take the step
Erik T Baker
The holidays are a struggle for me, however, I am truly grateful for the expansive recovery family I have been blessed with.
