About this Recovery Home
The Men's Tillamook House is a men's sober house in Portland, Oregon, in Multnomah County. It is one of fourteen recovery homes run by Sober Housing Oregon across the east side of the Portland metro area, and the operator describes it as the newest address in the portfolio.
A Men's Sober House in Northeast Portland
Sober Housing Oregon places this house in a quiet northeast neighborhood a few blocks from the Gateway Transit Center. That detail does more work than it looks like it does. Gateway is where the MAX Blue, Green and Red lines meet, so a resident without a car can reach downtown Portland, Gresham, the airport and Clackamas Town Center on a single fare. Early recovery runs on getting to places on time, and a house inside that intersection removes the most common excuse for missing a shift or an appointment.
Rooms and Structure at This Portland Recovery Home
The operator offers both shared and single occupancy at this location, which is the one structural choice a prospective resident actually gets to make here. A shared room costs less and puts someone else in the room during the hours nobody is supervising. A single room costs more and gives a resident somewhere to close a door. Men who have relapsed out of a private apartment often do better in a shared room for the first stretch, and men coming out of a crowded treatment bed often need the opposite. The house is a three level building with daylight through the upper floors and new finishes throughout, which matters more than it sounds like it should when someone is spending a first sober winter indoors.
What Oregon Sober Living Certification Would Add
Oregon accreditation is voluntary. The Mental Health & Addiction Certification Board of Oregon accredits recovery housing providers against the standards of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences, and no statute requires an operator to hold it. Absence from that list is not a mark against a house, because most Oregon recovery housing sits outside the program entirely. Where accreditation is present it commits a provider to a written code of ethics, disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint route outside the house. Where it is absent, a resident asks for the same four things in writing and reads the answers.
Applying to This Portland Sober House
Sober Housing Oregon does not publish the street address for this residence, and placement runs through the operator, which posts current vacancy for every house it runs and takes applications online. Ask what the monthly rate covers, what the deposit is and when it comes back, whether a single room is open now or in a month, how curfew and drug testing work, and whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted. The answers should arrive before anyone signs anything.
Recovery Housing Across the Portland Metro
Fourteen houses carry the Sober Housing Oregon name, spread from inner southeast Portland out through the 100th blocks and into downtown Gresham. One is a women's residence and the rest serve men. A resident who needs a different neighborhood, a cheaper bed or a quieter street can raise it with people who already know him, and the transfer stays inside one application and one set of house expectations.
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
