About this Recovery Home
The Women's Butte House is a women's sober living home in Portland, Oregon, in Multnomah County, and the only women's residence among the fourteen houses Sober Housing Oregon operates.
A Women's Sober House Facing Powell Butte
Powell Butte Nature Park sits directly across from this house. That is a six hundred acre extinct volcano with meadows, orchards and about nine miles of trail, on the eastern edge of Portland. The operator calls the setting an oasis from the city while still being close to everything, and for a women's recovery home the practical value is a place to walk. Early sobriety involves a great deal of restless time that has to go somewhere, and a trailhead across the street absorbs more of it than a living room does.
What a Women's Recovery Home Settles
Single gender housing decides several things at once. Bathrooms, sleeping arrangements and common space are all women's space. House meetings can address trauma, custody, pregnancy and relationships without a mixed audience. Women coming out of treatment, jail or a violent household frequently name a co-ed house as the reason a previous placement failed, and this is the operator's answer to that. It is also the scarcer product in the Portland market, where men's beds substantially outnumber women's.
Oregon Sober Living Certification and What It Covers
Accreditation of Oregon recovery housing is voluntary and runs through the Mental Health & Addiction Certification Board of Oregon, the state affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. It is awarded to providers, so it speaks to a company and every address that company runs, and most Oregon houses sit outside the program because no law requires it. For a woman comparing options, the standards make a usable list of questions: written fees, written house rules, a written relapse and discharge policy, and a way to raise a complaint that does not end with the house manager.
East Portland Recovery Housing and Getting Around
Outer east Portland has the metro's largest supply of recovery housing and its longest distances. Bus service along Powell Boulevard and 122nd Avenue links the area to Gresham in one direction and to the central city in the other, and the MAX Green Line runs the I-205 corridor a few minutes west. A resident can reach Multnomah County services, outpatient providers and the downtown employment core without a car, and should budget the time it actually takes before accepting a job on the west side.
Applying to This Portland Women's Sober Living Home
The street address is not published, and placement runs through Sober Housing Oregon, which lists current vacancy for every house. Because this is the operator's only women's residence, the wait behaves differently from the men's houses, so ask directly how long the list is. Also confirm the monthly rate and what it includes, the deposit and refund terms, whether the room is shared or single, curfew and testing, and the policy on medication for opioid use disorder.
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
