About this Recovery Home
CODA Portland Recovery Center is a coed residential recovery home on NE Couch Street in Portland, Oregon. The address sits in Multnomah County, in the close-in northeast quadrant a short walk from the Burnside Bridge, and it is one of the residential locations run by CODA, a nonprofit addiction treatment provider working across the Portland metro area.
A Coed Recovery Residence on NE Couch Street
Men and women live here together. A coed house settles a real question for anyone comparing options in Portland: one set of house expectations covers the whole household, common space is shared, and the population is mixed by design. Some people in early recovery want that, and some do better in a single-gender household. Knowing which one a house runs before applying saves a difficult move later.
NE Couch Street runs through one of the densest residential and commercial stretches of inner northeast Portland. TriMet buses and the MAX light rail both serve the surrounding blocks, so a job, an outpatient appointment or a court date downtown is reachable without a car. For someone rebuilding a routine, that is the difference between a schedule that holds and one that depends on rides.
Residential Care and Sober Living Under One Provider
CODA runs outpatient clinics and residential locations across the metro area, and this Couch Street address belongs to the residential side. Residents live where the program operates. That arrangement suits someone leaving detox or a hospital who needs the structure of a program and a bed in the same place, and it shortens the handoff that so often goes wrong between treatment ending and housing starting.
Oregon Sober Living Accreditation and What It Commits a Provider To
Recovery residence accreditation in Oregon runs through the Mental Health and Addiction Certification Board of Oregon, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. It is voluntary. No Oregon statute requires a recovery home to hold it, which means the absence of a credential says less here than it would in a state with mandatory licensure, and the presence of one says a great deal.
What accreditation binds an operator to is concrete. A published code of ethics. Written disclosure of fees and house rules before anyone signs. A written policy covering relapse and discharge. A complaint process that reaches past the house manager to someone outside the building. Oregon's board grants it to the provider organization instead of to a single address, so the useful question to put to any Portland recovery housing provider is whether the organization holds it, and what it has agreed to do about a resident who has a problem with the way a house is run.
Recovery Housing in Portland and Multnomah County
Portland is both the largest city in Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County, and everything a resident is likely to need sits inside the same few square miles. The county courthouse, the county health department, Oregon Health and Science University, Legacy and Providence hospitals, community college campuses and the bulk of the region's entry-level employment are all inside the city. Multnomah County recovery housing is concentrated on the east side for the same reason the rest of the city's rental stock is: that is where the houses are. Someone coming out of treatment in Gresham, Troutdale or across the river in Clark County usually ends up looking at inner Portland addresses first.
What to Ask Before Moving Into This Portland Sober House
The questions that matter at a residential address are practical ones. How long is the expected stay, and what ends it. Whether a staff member or house manager is present overnight. How bedrooms are assigned in a coed household. What the program charges, what a deposit covers, and what happens to it at discharge. Whether residents on buprenorphine or methadone are accepted, since losing housing over a prescribed medication is one of the fastest routes back to a hospital. And how someone raises a complaint about the house without going through the person the complaint is about. Those answers should come in writing before a move-in date is set.
More About Sober Living Marquis Piedmont Sober Living Portland, Oregon
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.
