About this Sober House
Women's Firstep is a women's recovery residence in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in Oklahoma County. Fifty-six resident beds, OKARR Certified Level 2, operated by OKC Metro Alliance, Inc. on its own campus on acreage in south Oklahoma City, in the 73165 ZIP code.
A Women's Recovery Home on a Separate Campus
The women's program runs on its own campus with its own phone line, its own staff and fifty-six beds. Keeping the two Firstep programs on separate sites means the house rules, the classes and the shared space are built for one population, and a woman is never the only woman in a mixed building. Fifty-six beds also means a woman arriving alone finds a community already in place, with residents at every stage from the first week to graduation.
Work Recovery and What It Costs a Resident
Firstep is a long-term residential work recovery program funded through employer contracts, resident wages once employment begins, donors and foundations. There is no out-of-pocket cost to the resident or her family and no insurance is required. A resident is assigned a work training site, earns at least minimum wage across a forty-hour week, and most of that wage is withheld to pay for the program. In return the program provides three meals a day, transportation to work sites and appointments, meetings, classes and mental health services.
Program Structure Inside This Sober Living Community
The minimum stay is six months and residents may remain up to two years, with the pace set individually. Women's Firstep residents receive the Women in Transition curriculum alongside individual counseling, group therapy, relapse prevention and parenting classes. Onsite GED classes are available. Family visitation begins after the first thirty days, and day passes start around ninety days as a resident phases up. Children do not live on campus, and the program does not accept residents who are pregnant.
OKARR Certification Behind This Women's Recovery Housing
The Oklahoma Alliance for Recovery Resources certified both Firstep programs in July 2020, and both have recertified annually since. This residence is certified at Level 2, the monitored tier. Certification obliges a house to publish a code of ethics, to disclose fees and rules in writing before move-in, to keep a written relapse and discharge policy, and to accept complaint review from outside the house.
Oklahoma City, the State Capital, and Recovery Housing Statewide
Oklahoma City is the state capital and the seat of Oklahoma County, and OKC Metro Alliance takes referrals from across Oklahoma, including drug courts in fifty-nine counties. For a woman leaving treatment or incarceration in a rural county with no certified recovery housing nearby, a program that provides work, transportation, meals and a bed at no cost is often the only realistic placement in the state. The campus street address is not published, and admission begins with a screening call to the operator.
