About this Recovery House
Acme Resources is a men's sober house in Youngstown, Ohio, in Mahoning County. It operates as part of Broadway Recovery Services, the Youngstown nonprofit that has run recovery housing in the Mahoning Valley since 2015 and lists Acme Resources among its six men's residences.
A Men's Sober House Within the Broadway Recovery Portfolio
Acme Resources carries its own name inside a larger system, and residents get both. The house is a men's residence with the household accountability that implies. Behind it sits an organization running ten residences, so a man who needs a different level of structure moves to another Broadway address and the housing search does not start over.
Structure and Expectations in This Recovery Home
Admission requires completed medical detox or at least seven days substance-free, an application and a phone interview, and a substance use disorder and mental health assessment on arrival. The first thirty days are a blackout period with limited outside contact. At thirty days a resident becomes eligible to mentor newer arrivals. Employment is expected within sixty to ninety days, and average length of stay across the program is about 130 days.
Work, Community Service and Sober Living
Residents across the organization contribute more than 600 hours a month of community service with local nonprofit partners. For a man whose last steady work was years ago, those hours are a current reference and a reason to be somewhere every day. Broadway Recovery Services also connects residents to local employers, which is how the sixty to ninety day work expectation is meant to be met.
Mahoning County Recovery Housing and Certification
Broadway Recovery Services operates certified recovery housing in Ohio through Ohio Recovery Housing, the state's NARR affiliate. Ohio certifies residence by residence and publishes a level for each address, so an applicant should confirm the specific house. The registry also records the organization's residences as MAT supported and equipped for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
Applying to This Youngstown Sober House
Applications go to Broadway Recovery Services. Referrals come from treatment facilities, hospitals, courts and mental health professionals, and staff work regularly with people on probation, on parole and coming out of homelessness. Youngstown supplies the rest: the county courts, two hospital systems, Youngstown State University and Western Reserve Transit Authority buses are all within the city, so a resident's obligations stay inside one county.
Instead of immediately returning to the living situation that possibly fostered and facilitated the substance abuse issue, sober homes provide a structured environment in which a person can continue to focus on recovery from substance use disorders. Sober homes have rules and regulations that require participation in twelve-step programs, house meetings, meditations, and other treatment programs that continue to reinforce the main proponents of long term recovery.
