The Hope Connection Recovery House

About this Recovery House

The Hope Connection is a sober living home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in Rutherford County, operated by Threshold Recovery. The organization runs sixteen recovery homes in the city and appears on the certified list of the Tennessee Alliance of Recovery Residences.

Peer Connection as the Working Part of a Sober House

Recovery housing does its work through the household. A resident who is around several other people keeping the same early hours, paying the same weekly fee and answering the same house rules is far more likely to hold a routine than someone renting a room alone. That is the mechanism behind a name like this one, and it is the reason peer housing sits between residential treatment and independent living in every state's continuum.

Tennessee Recovery Residence Certification

Tennessee requires recovery residences to be certified, and courts and treatment providers refer accordingly. Threshold Recovery is a certified organization with the state affiliate, so this house is operated by a certified operator. Certification means the operator publishes an ethics code, provides fees and house rules in writing before move-in, keeps a written relapse and discharge policy, and answers complaints through a body outside the house. Those commitments are checkable, which is more than can be said for most housing marketed to people in early recovery.

Murfreesboro Sober Living and the Middle Tennessee Corridor

Murfreesboro anchors Rutherford County as its seat and holds the institutions a resident needs: the judicial center, the recovery court, the health department, Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital, Middle Tennessee State University and a large employment base in distribution, retail and food service. The Rover bus serves the main corridors, and Interstate 24 links the city to Nashville in one direction and Chattanooga in the other. People coming out of treatment in Cannon, Coffee, Bedford or Wilson County frequently move here because the services are concentrated.

Applying Through Threshold Recovery

Street addresses for individual Threshold houses are not published, so an applicant contacts the organization, which places people across its sixteen Murfreesboro households. Useful questions: the weekly fee and what it includes, the deposit and its return, whether a house manager lives on site, curfew and testing policy, how long residents usually stay, and whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted.