About this Recovery Home
CODA Gresham Women's and Men's Residential is a recovery residence in Portland, Oregon, on SE 182nd in Multnomah County. The address sits directly on the line where east Portland becomes Gresham, which is how the house carries the Gresham name and a Portland mailing address at once.
A Women's and Men's Recovery Residence on SE 182nd
The location serves both women and men, in separate programming under one provider. SE 182nd is one of the major north-south arterials in far east Portland, connecting the Division and Powell corridors to Gresham's civic core. Residents living here are inside a dense band of workforce housing, retail employment and TriMet bus service that runs the length of the east side.
This is a residential site. People live where the program operates, which shortens the distance between a treatment plan and the place someone actually sleeps.
Where East Portland Meets Gresham in Recovery Housing
Far east Portland and Gresham together hold a large share of the region's affordable rental housing and a correspondingly large share of its recovery homes. The line between the two cities is administrative and almost invisible on the ground. Gresham is the second largest city in Multnomah County, with its own downtown, its own courthouse annex and Mount Hood Community College, and the MAX Blue Line terminates at Cleveland Avenue in the middle of it. A resident on SE 182nd can reach downtown Portland in about forty minutes on light rail, or be in Gresham in five.
Living On Site Through a Residential Sober Living Program
Residential means the bed and the program are the same address. For someone coming out of detox or a hospital, that removes the interval where a housing plan usually fails. CODA runs outpatient clinics across the metro area as well, so a resident stepping down to a lighter level of care can do it inside the same organization instead of restarting somewhere new.
Multnomah County Recovery Homes on the East Side
Multnomah County is Oregon's most populous county, and Portland is its seat. The courthouse, the county health department, parole and probation, and the largest concentration of outpatient treatment in the state are all inside the county line. What sits on the east side is the housing. People discharged from the county jail, from a hospital detox or from residential treatment tend to land east of 82nd Avenue because that is where a program fee still buys a bed, and the recovery housing stock has followed.
Oregon Recovery Residence Accreditation and What It Requires
Recovery residence accreditation in Oregon is voluntary, administered by the Mental Health and Addiction Certification Board of Oregon, the state affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. An accredited provider agrees to a code of ethics, to disclosing fees and rules in writing before move-in, to a written relapse and discharge policy, and to a complaint process outside the house. It is issued at the organization level, so anyone comparing east Portland or Gresham recovery homes should ask the provider directly what the organization holds and what standards it has signed up to.
