About this Recovery Home
The Men's Milwaukie House is a men's sober living home in Portland, Oregon, in Multnomah County, and one of fourteen recovery residences operated by Sober Housing Oregon.
A Low Key Men's Sober House in Portland
The operator pitches this house on temperament. Amenities barely come into it. It describes it as the place for someone who is low key and wants a chill spot with a good backyard, which is a real distinction between houses that otherwise look the same on paper. Some recovery homes run loud, with a rotating cast and a busy common room. Others are quiet, and a man who works nights, or who is fresh out of a treatment bed and exhausted, will do better in the quiet one. Prospective residents should ask which kind of house they are walking into, because the answer changes month to month with who is living there.
A Recovery Home Across From a Meeting Hall
A meeting hall that hosts recovery meetings sits across the street, and a bus stop is a couple of blocks away. Those two facts together describe a workable first month without a car. Men leaving treatment usually arrive with a meeting obligation and no transportation, and the distance between an address and the nearest regular meeting is often what decides whether the obligation gets met. Walking across the street is a different proposition from a forty minute bus ride each way.
What Certification Establishes for an Oregon Recovery Residence
Recovery housing accreditation in Oregon is optional and is administered by the Mental Health & Addiction Certification Board of Oregon, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. It is granted to providers, so it describes a company's practices instead of a particular building, and most Oregon houses operate outside it because nothing obliges them to join. An applicant gets further by asking the house for the documents accreditation would require: a fee schedule, house rules, a relapse and discharge policy, and an escalation path for complaints.
Reaching This Portland Men's Recovery Home
Sober Housing Oregon does not publish the street address, and placement runs through the operator, which lists current vacancy and expected open dates for each house. Ask what the monthly rate includes, what the deposit is and how it is returned, whether the room available is shared or single, how curfew and testing work, and what the policy is on medication for opioid use disorder.
One Operator, Fourteen Portland Area Sober Homes
Sober Housing Oregon runs houses across inner southeast Portland, the outer east side and downtown Gresham. Thirteen serve men and one serves women. Because all of them sit inside Multnomah County and the same transit system, moving between them costs a resident nothing in commute, prescriber or meeting routine, and it takes a conversation instead of a new application.
Well run homes with the structure you need!
Sober Housing Oregon has multiple locations around the metro area, all near public transportation and other resources.
What you can expect:
-Fully Furnished home including bedding, kitchen items, and TV. Some locations also have gaming area as well as PC
-On-site house manager for overbite and mentorship
-Random UA and breathalyzers conducted for all residents and rests available to PO or case managers upon request
-All paper products (ie toilet paper, paper towels) provided as well as all cleaning products
-High speed internet and wifi
-Weekly house meeting and check in
-Access to clothing closet as well as food boxes
-Referrals to employment services, mental health and addiction services
-Rental reference upon exit
-Periodic organization-wide events such as sledding trips, beach trips, camping etc.
-Referral bonus of $100 for any incoming resident referral
