About this Recovery Home
Recovery Blvd Sober Living - SE Bush Street is a men's sober house in Portland, Oregon, in Multnomah County. It is run by Recovery Blvd, a Portland treatment provider that keeps its own men's and women's houses across the city.
A Men's Sober House on SE Bush Street
The house serves men in recovery. It sits in outer southeast Portland, east of Interstate 205 in the stretch of the city that runs toward Pleasant Valley and the Gresham line. The blocks here are residential and quiet, with yards and off-street parking, and the arterials that carry TriMet's frequent bus service are a few minutes away. For a man in his first year of recovery, a neighborhood with fewer bars and more sidewalks is a practical asset.
What the Recovery Blvd Sober Living Program Includes
The operator publishes a consistent set of things every one of its houses carries: on-site management, all utilities, laundry and cleaning supplies, a full kitchen, an individual dresser, cable and Wi-Fi. Outdoor space and grills come with the houses, and the men's houses are furnished with game rooms and the kind of equipment that gives a household something to do on a Saturday night that is not going out. None of that is decoration. Early recovery has a lot of unstructured hours in it, and a house with a ping pong table and a working kitchen fills them differently than a house with neither.
Staying On After Treatment in This Portland Recovery Home
Recovery Blvd runs a treatment program alongside the housing, and residents can stay in a house after finishing it. Length of stay is set by the resident. That matters because the standard failure point in recovery housing is a hard time limit that expires before someone has a job, a car and a lease, and a house that lets a man stay while he assembles those things is doing the thing housing is supposed to do.
Outer East Portland Recovery Housing and Multnomah County
Portland is the seat of Multnomah County, and the practical business of early recovery happens inside the county line: the courthouse downtown, the county health department, probation and parole offices, hospital systems and the community college campuses. East Portland holds much of the region's workforce housing, and recovery homes cluster there for the same reason. A resident on SE Bush Street is inside reach of the Clackamas industrial and retail employers to the south, the Gresham corridor to the east and downtown to the west, all on one transit system.
Oregon Recovery Residence Accreditation Explained
Oregon does not require a recovery residence to be licensed. Accreditation is voluntary and runs through the Mental Health and Addiction Certification Board of Oregon, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. A provider that holds it has agreed to a code of ethics, to written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, to a written relapse and discharge policy, and to an external complaint process. Because it is granted to the organization, anyone weighing a Portland sober house should ask the operator what the organization's standing is and what a resident can do when a house is not being run the way it was described.
About Recovery Village Sober Living Housing for Men in Portland, Oregon
House Specifics
ADA Accessible
Clean Time Requirement
Requires House Meetings
Requires Application
Requires Background Check
Requires Background Check
Furnished Rooms
Accepts Vouchers & Public Funds
Allows Smoking
