About this Recovery Home
Tippitt House is a men's sober house on SW Tippitt Place in Tigard, Oregon, in Washington County. Sober Living PDX operates it as one of its Portland-area recovery residences. The house runs about 4,000 square feet and the operator lists it at $850 a month.
A Men's Sober House on SW Tippitt Place
SW Tippitt Place is a quiet residential street in western Tigard, off the main highway corridor and inside a neighborhood of single-family homes. The household is men only. That restriction is what lets a house of this size run on one set of rules, with shared bedrooms, shared bathrooms and a common area used by everyone for the same purposes. Residents are expected to be employed, in school, in treatment or volunteering, and the daily structure assumes each man has somewhere to be during the day.
Room and Rate at This Tigard Recovery Home
Four thousand square feet is a substantial house, and the practical effect is that a resident is not living on top of everyone else. The $850 monthly figure covers a furnished shared room in that house. Compared with a private lease anywhere in Washington County, the rate buys something a lease cannot: housemates held to the same standard, a rule about who can be in the building overnight, and a reason to be accountable at eleven at night when nobody is watching.
Tigard, the 99W Corridor and Washington County Recovery Housing
Tigard grew up along Pacific Highway, which locals call 99W, and that corridor still carries most of the city's employment. Washington Square anchors the northern end, downtown Tigard and its Main Street sit at the middle, and Highway 217 links both to Beaverton and the Sunset Highway. Tigard Transit Center connects TriMet bus lines with WES commuter rail, which runs north to Beaverton and south to Tualatin and Wilsonville. Hillsboro is the county seat, so county business means a train ride. For a man in a Tigard sober house, the point of all this is that a job, a meeting and an appointment can occupy three different towns in one day without a car.
What Oregon Sober Living Accreditation Covers
The Mental Health and Addiction Certification Board of Oregon runs the state's voluntary accreditation for recovery residences, and it accredits providers, not individual buildings. What accreditation buys a resident is procedural: fees and rules disclosed in writing before move-in, a documented policy on relapse and discharge, a code of ethics the provider has signed, and somewhere to take a complaint besides the house manager. Oregon requires none of this by statute, so a residence that has taken it on has chosen to answer to an outside body. An applicant should ask the operator directly where it stands.
Moving Between Sober Living PDX Sober Homes
Applications run through Sober Living PDX, which keeps houses in Tigard, Beaverton, Portland and Milwaukie. A man applying in Tigard is being considered by an operator with beds in several cities, so a transfer later on is a conversation instead of a fresh application. For someone whose job or outpatient provider is on the other side of the metro area, that flexibility is worth more than any single feature of a building.
More About Sober Living PDX and Cascade Sober Living, Sober Living PDX in Portland, OR
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.
