About this Recovery House
West Nashville Sober Living - Illinois Avenue is a men's sober living home in Nashville, Tennessee, in Davidson County. A Design for Living Recovery Homes operates it as part of a network of eleven houses in Middle Tennessee, and the address puts residents in the 37209 ZIP code on the west side of the city.
A Men's Sober House in West Nashville
Illinois Avenue belongs to the grid of state-named streets that gives the Nations its character, a formerly industrial west-side neighborhood that has filled in with new houses over the last decade. The house serves men. West Nashville suits a resident whose work is on this side of town, because the commute across the river at rush hour is the single most common reason a new job in early recovery falls apart. Charlotte Avenue and Charlotte Pike run east to west a few blocks away and carry the bus routes.
Structure and Staffing in This Sober Living Home
Staff are on site twenty-four hours a day. The house manager meets residents weekly on life skills, twelve-step meetings and book studies happen in the house, drug and alcohol testing is frequent, and residents are expected to work with a sponsor and to take on service commitments at food banks and other nonprofits. Fellowship activities are organized inside the house and with the wider twelve-step community. The operator states plainly that its homes were chosen for proximity to AA, NA and CA meeting places and to public transportation.
A Certified Sober Living Operator Behind the House
The house is operated by a certified operator, listed with the Tennessee Alliance of Recovery Residences. Certification binds an operator to a code of ethics, to disclosing fees and house rules in writing before move-in, to a written policy on relapse and discharge, and to an outside complaint process. In Tennessee that framework carries statutory weight, because state law requires recovery residences to be certified. A resident comparing addresses on the west side should confirm which specific house is available and who is certified to run it.
The Nations, Charlotte Avenue and West Nashville Recovery Housing
West Nashville has its own economy: contractors, restaurants, distribution and the trades, most of it reachable along Charlotte Pike and White Bridge Road without crossing downtown. Nashville State Community College sits in the same ZIP code for a resident going back to school, and the county health department and the courts are a short run east in the consolidated city and county. West Nashville recovery housing is less concentrated than East Nashville's, so a certified men's house on this side of the river covers a gap in Davidson County recovery housing that is real.
One Network of Sober Homes, Several Addresses
Eleven homes carry the A Design for Living Recovery Homes name across East, West and North Nashville and Dickson. One application reaches all of them, and a resident who needs to change houses moves inside a program he already knows. Justin Coggins, in recovery himself, owns and runs the company. The houses are men only, which means a transfer never involves a change in who the household is written for.
What do our Nashville Sober Living Homes Provide?
A Design for Living Recovery Homes sober living are more than just a "nice house." We believe that is what separates our sober living homes from others in the area. We will provide the safe space for you or your loved one to live in, but also we will set them up with real world recovery they can with them when they leave our homes. Here are some of the services we provide for our clients.
