Stepping Stones #6 Men's Sober House

About this Sober House

Stepping Stones #6 is a men's recovery home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in Tulsa County. Six beds, OKARR Certified Level 3, operated by Community Treatment Integrations of Oklahoma in the 74136 ZIP code on the south side of the city.

Six Men in a Certified Sober Living Home

Six beds sets the scale of the house. It is large enough that a resident is not the only person awake at an odd hour and small enough that nobody disappears into the background. Rooms are shared in houses this size, which holds the cost down and keeps residents accountable to each other during the hours staff are not present. Every resident is a man, so the house rules, the meetings and the shared space are written for one population.

Employment Within Reach of This South Tulsa Sober House

The stretch of south Tulsa around this ZIP code is the city's densest concentration of service employment. The 71st Street corridor, the Memorial Drive retail spine and the office and medical parks between them hire year round for the kind of work that takes someone with a gap in their history and a bus pass. That matters more than any amenity in the first ninety days. A man who can walk or ride to a shift is a man who can pay his own program fee, and paying it is usually the first thing that starts to feel like progress.

OKARR Certification and This Recovery Residence

Certification through the Oklahoma Alliance for Recovery Resources at Level 3 places this house in the supervised tier, which describes paid staff, administrative structure and a written program. The credential also binds the residence to a published code of ethics, to handing an applicant the fees and house rules in writing before move-in, to a documented relapse and discharge policy, and to a complaint process outside the house. Certification is voluntary in Oklahoma and has to be renewed on a cycle.

A Nonprofit Recovery Housing Provider in Tulsa County

Community Treatment Integrations of Oklahoma is a registered 501(c)(3) with clinical leadership that includes licensed counselors, licensed alcohol and drug counselors and a medical director. It provides substance use treatment, mental health care, problem gambling services, counseling and court diversion, and it operates in Tulsa and Bartlesville. Its recovery housing sits inside that structure. The address of this house is not published, and placement runs through the organization.