About this Recovery Home
411 NE 19th Avenue is a coed sober house in Portland, Oregon, in Multnomah County, a few blocks north of East Burnside Street on the city's inner east side.
A Sober House on NE 19th Avenue
NE 19th Avenue runs through the Kerns neighborhood, one of the older residential grids east of the Willamette River. The blocks here are small, the houses are close together, and almost everything a person in early recovery needs sits within walking distance: a grocery store, a pharmacy, a laundromat, and more recovery meetings inside a mile than most Oregon counties hold in total. The household is coed, which makes the rules on guests, curfew and shared space the load-bearing part of daily life here.
Inner Northeast Portland Recovery Housing
Sandy Boulevard, East Burnside and NE Broadway all cut through this part of the city within a few blocks of the address, and each carries frequent TriMet service. The Lloyd District, with its MAX stations and its concentration of offices and hotels, is a short walk or a two-stop ride to the west. Providence Portland Medical Center sits east on NE Glisan, and the county's courthouse and social services are across the river downtown. For a resident without a car, the inner east side is the most connected place in Oregon to hold an address.
What Oregon Recovery Residence Accreditation Establishes
Oregon does not license sober houses, and no state agency publishes a list of them. What exists is a voluntary accreditation run by the Mental Health and Addiction Certification Board of Oregon, the state affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. It applies to the organization operating a residence and commits it to a code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a documented relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint route that leads outside the house. A residence without it may still be a sound place to live. There is simply less on the public record to check, which raises the value of everything an applicant can get in writing.
Multnomah County Sober Living and Getting Around Without a Car
Multnomah County holds the densest recovery infrastructure in the state: outpatient providers, peer-run centers, drug court, and a meeting schedule that fills every hour of the day somewhere in the city. Portland is the county seat, so court dates, benefits appointments and probation check-ins happen in the same city where a resident sleeps. Someone stepping down from residential treatment in a rural county often finds that an inner Portland address is the nearest place where treatment, work and transit line up at once.
What to Ask Before Moving Into This Portland Sober House
Start with the questions any recovery residence should answer before a signature: what the weekly or monthly fee covers and what it excludes, whether a house manager lives on site, how bedrooms are assigned in a coed house, what the overnight guest policy is, how drug testing works and who can call for one, what happens immediately after a relapse, and whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted. A house that answers all of them in writing is telling an applicant something useful about how it runs the rest of the time.
OUR FOCUS
Oregon Recovers is building a broad, inclusive coalition and waging an aggressive campaign to make Oregon the “Recovery State.†We are tackling the addiction crisis head-on by building a statewide movement focused on implementing a comprehensive policy agenda that will move Oregon from last to first in access to safe, effective, and immediate addiction treatment and recovery support services.
Oregon Recovers is an inclusive statewide coalition comprised of people in recoveryand their friends and familyuniting to transform Oregon healthcare to ensure world-class prevention, treatment, and recovery support services for Oregonians suffering from the disease of addiction.
