Gilsey House Men's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Gilsey House is a men's sober living home in Cincinnati, Ohio, in Hamilton County. It is one of eight Cincinnati-area residences that New Foundations Recovery Housing, a nonprofit operating since 2009, certifies at the Managed level.

A Men's Sober House in Cincinnati

Gilsey House sits on a corner lot with room for around eighteen men, close enough to a bus route, a grocery store and a handful of coffee shops that a resident without a car can still manage errands and meetings on his own. The operator does not publish a street address for this location, and placement runs through New Foundations directly.

A Peer-Led Model at Gilsey House

The house runs on a social model rather than a single live-in authority: residents hold weekly meetings on Sundays, share meals together, and have an equal say in how the household runs. That structure asks more of residents day to day than a supervised house does, and it is built to teach the accountability that holds up after the program ends.

Ohio Recovery Housing Certification at the Managed Level

Gilsey House is certified through Ohio Recovery Housing, the state's NARR affiliate, at the Managed level, the same standard New Foundations carries across all eight of its Ohio homes. Certification commits the operator to a published code of ethics and a relapse and discharge policy that an outside body can review.

Recovery Housing in Cincinnati and Hamilton County

Cincinnati anchors Hamilton County and carries most of the county's outpatient providers and entry-level employers, which matters to a resident building a work schedule around a peer-led house. Men leaving treatment anywhere in the county tend to look at a Cincinnati sober house first for that reach.