About this Recovery Home
Washington Street House is a coed sober living home in Portland, Oregon, in Multnomah County. It takes its name from Southeast Washington Street, and it is one of two Portland recovery homes run under the Portland Sober Living Company name.
A Coed Sober House in Inner Southeast Portland
Men and women both live here. Coed recovery housing is a minority of the Portland stock and it solves a real problem, because single-gender waitlists move at different speeds and a household that takes anybody can often place a person the same week. Southeast Washington Street runs east from the Willamette through Buckman and Kerns, a dense grid of older houses and apartment buildings a few blocks off the Burnside and Hawthorne corridors. Almost everything in inner southeast is walkable, and TriMet bus lines and the MAX cross the district in both directions.
Locating This Portland Recovery Home
The operator does not publish a street number for this house, and placement runs through the company. That is common in Portland recovery housing and it is usually deliberate, since a published number invites traffic that residents did not sign up for. The consequence for someone applying is simply that the address arrives at the point of placement. What can be established beforehand is the neighborhood, and inner southeast is among the best-connected parts of the city for somebody without a car.
What Oregon Sober Living Accreditation Would and Would Not Tell You
Oregon does not license recovery residences at all. The Mental Health & Addiction Certification Board of Oregon runs the only accreditation program in the state, it is voluntary, and it credentials the provider organization instead of individual houses, so no public list names Portland sober homes one by one. That makes the operator conversation carry all the weight. Ask for the fee schedule in writing, the house rules in writing, and the relapse and discharge policy in writing before any money changes hands. Those three documents are what accreditation would require, and an operator that produces them readily is telling you something whether it holds the credential or not.
Multnomah County Recovery Housing and the Inner Southeast
Portland is the Multnomah County seat and the center of Oregon's recovery infrastructure. Outpatient providers, peer-run recovery centers, the county courthouse, Portland Community College campuses and the largest concentration of twelve-step and alternative meetings in the state all sit inside the city. Inner southeast in particular puts a resident within a short bus ride of the medical district, downtown employment and the Hawthorne and Division commercial strips where a good share of entry-level food service work is. For someone leaving treatment elsewhere in the county, that density is the argument for a Portland address.
What to Ask Before Moving Into This Portland Sober House
Ask who manages the house day to day and whether that person lives in it, how bedrooms are assigned and whether any are private, what the weekly fee covers, what the deposit is and under what conditions it comes back, whether drug and alcohol testing is random, how a relapse is handled, and whether prescribed medication for opioid use disorder is accepted. A coed house should also explain how it handles relationships between residents. Getting those answers in writing is the whole of due diligence on an Oregon sober house.
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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.
