About this Recovery Home
Eastern Oregon Recovery Center is a coed recovery residence in Pendleton, Oregon, the seat of Umatilla County, at 216 SW Hailey Avenue. It has provided residential substance use treatment in eastern Oregon since 1960.
A Thirty-Six Bed Recovery Residence in Pendleton
The center runs a thirty-six bed residential program serving men and women. That figure is the most concrete thing on this listing and it defines what the place is. Thirty-six beds is a substantial residential facility for a city of about seventeen thousand people, and it means the house is staffed, scheduled and clinically supervised in a way that peer run sober living is not. Admission begins with a comprehensive biopsychosocial substance use assessment using ASAM criteria, which is how the program decides whether residential care is the right level for a particular person.
Trauma-Informed Treatment in This Recovery Home
The organization describes its work as recovery, intervention, support and empowerment delivered through professional and compassionate trauma-informed therapy. Trauma-informed is a specific commitment when it is real: intake that does not require someone to retell a history repeatedly, rules that avoid the shaming and surprise searches that replicate past experience, and staff trained to read a trauma response as something other than defiance. It is a fair thing for a prospective resident or a referring counselor to ask the program to describe in practical terms.
Transitional Housing After Treatment
The center also operates transitional and multi-family housing for low income people who have completed treatment, including individual clients, single parents and families. That second tier answers the question every residential program eventually runs into, which is where a resident goes on discharge day. Family capable transitional housing is scarce across eastern Oregon, and a parent who would otherwise have to choose between finishing treatment and keeping a household together has somewhere to land. A housing manager handles those placements separately from residential intake.
Recovery Housing for Umatilla County and Eastern Oregon
Pendleton is the Umatilla County seat and the service hub for a very large and thinly populated stretch of the state. The county courthouse, Blue Mountain Community College, St. Anthony Hospital and the county's health and human services offices all sit in the city, and Interstate 84 connects it to Hermiston, La Grande, Boardman and The Dalles. For someone in Morrow, Union, Wallowa, Baker or Gilliam County, the nearest residential treatment bed is frequently this one. That geography is why a facility of this size exists here, and why a discharge plan built around a return to a small town has to be made deliberately.
What Accreditation Would Add in Oregon
Oregon does not license recovery residences, and accreditation through the Mental Health & Addiction Certification Board of Oregon is voluntary. Residential treatment is licensed separately by the state as adult residential care, which is a different and clinically stricter framework, and this program operates under it. For anyone comparing options, the questions are the same in either case: what the program costs and what coverage applies, how long a stay runs, whether medication for opioid use disorder continues on site, and what the plan is for the day someone leaves.
More About Sober Living Eastern Oregon Recovery Center Pendleton OR
Home and Healthy
Sober Living PDX & Cascade Sober Living provide higher quality recovery assistance housing to individuals who are looking for safe and well-managed homes. Our residency program is geared toward providing a living environment that offers peer-to-peer support systems so people can have a home that promotes their long-term recovery efforts.
Our homes are located in ideal and welcoming neighborhoods scattered throughout Oregon as we are also currently expanding into the Washington area. Every residence is overseen by a live-in House Manager that communicates directly to our Director of Housing to ensure that recovery assistance programs and rules are abided by during our resident's stay.
Here at Sober Living PDX & Cascade Sober Living, our residents value their recovery assistance experience by having a comfortable home that will allow them to have a successful transition into living independently in the community.
Our Sober Living Mission Statement
We provide quality, comfortable housing for those seeking a clean & sober, healthy, program-centric environment that promotes recovery from alcohol, drug use and associated problems.
