Place of Hope Coed Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Place of Hope is a licensed recovery residence in Columbia, Tennessee, on North James Campbell Boulevard in Maury County, serving both men and women.

A Licensed Residential Program in Columbia

Place of Hope runs a 45-bed residential alcohol and drug treatment program, licensed by the State of Tennessee, at its Columbia location. That licensure is a separate track from Tennessee's recovery residence certification system, but it establishes a level of state oversight over the facility's treatment operations that a prospective resident or family can independently verify.

A Free, Faith-Based Recovery Community

Place of Hope describes itself as a Christ-centered ministry, and it operates its residential program at no cost to the men and women who live there, funded in part through grants from the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. The organization also runs a temporary homeless shelter and meal services on site, which means residents arriving with nowhere else to go are not turned away for lack of a bed elsewhere first.

Serving Men and Women Together

Unlike many single-gender sober houses, Place of Hope houses both men and women dealing with alcoholism, addiction, co-occurring disorders and homelessness. That coed structure widens who the program can serve in a county with limited recovery housing options, at the cost of the single-gender household model some residents prefer.

Maury County and Southern Middle Tennessee

Columbia is the seat of Maury County and a regional hub for Southern Middle Tennessee, and Place of Hope's location on North James Campbell Boulevard keeps it close to the county's courts, social services and outpatient providers. For someone with no resources and nowhere else to turn in this part of the state, a free, licensed residential program in the county seat fills a gap that a fee-based sober house cannot.

Beyond Housing: Spiritual and Community Support

Place of Hope provides transportation to Nashville Recovery Church as part of its program, tying its residential treatment directly to an outside faith community. For a resident whose recovery is built around faith, that built-in connection extends the program past its own walls in a way a purely secular sober house would not.