About this Sober House
Parkers Hope for Men is a men's sober living home on East Young Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in Tulsa County. It holds Level 3 certification from the Oklahoma Alliance for Recovery Resources and is operated by Parkers Hope for Mental Wellness, a Tulsa nonprofit that also provides counseling, assessment and case management.
A Men's Sober Living Home on East Young Street
The house sits north of downtown Tulsa, in the older residential grid between the Kendall-Whittier neighborhood and the Mohawk Park side of the city. That answers the question most people in early recovery are actually asking about an address: whether a job, a meeting and a pharmacy are reachable without a car. Tulsa Transit runs the north-side corridors, downtown is a short trip, and the courthouse and the probation offices a returning resident has to reach are all in the same part of the county. The house is a reentry residence, so a man arriving with a legal calendar is arriving somewhere built for it.
What OKARR Level 3 Certification Means for a Recovery Residence
The Oklahoma Alliance for Recovery Resources is the state's sole recognized certifier of recovery residences, and it publishes a level for each certified house. This one is certified at Level 3, the more supervised of the two levels OKARR uses and the highest the Oklahoma roster carries. Level 3 describes a residence with staff involvement in daily operations and structured programming written into the week, sitting a step above peer-managed housing. Certification also binds the house to a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a documented relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint process that runs outside the house. Oklahoma requires none of that by law, which makes it a choice the operator can be held to.
Inside This Tulsa Sober House
The operator publishes the specifics of the house, which is rare enough in Oklahoma sober living to be worth reading closely:
- 1,254 square feet, with four bedrooms at two residents per room.
- A shared living room and a dedicated dining area.
- A fully equipped kitchen with cookware, utensils and dishes provided.
- Washer and dryer on site.
- Secure entry with locks and cameras, smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, a fire extinguisher and a first aid kit.
- Yard space, a designated outdoor smoking area and parking.
Two men to a bedroom in a house of this size means a real amount of shared space per resident, and the security arrangement is the kind of detail that matters to a man whose last address was not safe.
A Week of Structure in This Men's Recovery Home
The weekly schedule is published and every resident participates. Peer support groups meet Monday and Thursday evenings. Tuesday brings a life skills and job readiness workshop and an evening twelve-step meeting, and a second twelve-step meeting falls on Friday, paired with a house meeting every other week. Case management meetings run on alternating Wednesdays, with open support hours or community engagement on the weeks between. Saturday is community service or volunteer work, with optional outpatient therapy sessions available. Sunday is left for personal reflection, optional spiritual activity and independent recovery time. Residents also have access to a house manager or peer support staff, case management, transportation assistance and help with driver's license reinstatement.
Reentry, Mental Health and Recovery Housing Under One Roof
The organization behind the house runs individual and family therapy, ADSAC assessments and referrals, crisis intervention and mental health support, and residents are encouraged toward outpatient therapy where clinical need calls for it. In Oklahoma an ADSAC assessment is the required course after a driving-under-the-influence conviction, so a resident carrying one has a mandatory obligation that this operator can meet without an outside referral. Housing and clinical support inside one organization removes a waitlist and a drive from a resident's month, and it keeps the people making decisions about his bed in contact with the people making decisions about his treatment.
North Tulsa and Tulsa County Recovery Housing
Tulsa County holds forty-three certified recovery residences, the largest concentration in Oklahoma, and Tulsa itself is the county seat and the commercial center of the northeastern part of the state. A resident here has the county courthouse, the outpatient providers, Tulsa Community College and the metro's employers inside one city, along with a dense twelve-step meeting calendar. North Tulsa specifically has been underserved by certified recovery housing relative to its need, and a Level 3 residence on that side of the city puts structured beds where people leaving custody are actually returning to.
