VFOR St. Johnsbury Men's Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

VFOR St. Johnsbury is a men's sober living home in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, the shire town of Caledonia County, operated by Vermont Foundation of Recovery. It is a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house in a residential neighborhood, with two single rooms and two doubles, housing six men.

A Men's Sober House in the Northeast Kingdom

Recovery housing thins out fast north and east of Barre, and St. Johnsbury is where the Northeast Kingdom's services concentrate. Six men live here, two of them in single rooms. The 2020 state recovery housing action plan named St. Johnsbury as one of the rural areas where the shortage was sharpest, which is context worth carrying into a conversation about wait times. The address is not published, and placement runs through the operator.

What Certification Obliges This Recovery Residence to Do

Certification through the Vermont Alliance for Recovery Residences means the house has submitted policy documentation, passed an onsite inspection, and agreed to a code of ethics and an external grievance process. Fees and house rules go to an applicant in writing before move-in, and a written relapse and discharge policy exists on paper. Vermont has no state licensure for recovery residences, so this is the only formal standard a house here can hold.

Recovery Housing in Caledonia County

St. Johnsbury is the shire town of Caledonia County and the hub for the Northeast Kingdom. Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital, the county courthouse, the Kingdom Recovery Center and Northeast Kingdom Human Services all sit in or near the town, and Interstates 91 and 93 meet just outside it. For a man returning to the Kingdom from treatment or incarceration, this is the address that puts a job, a prescriber and a meeting inside one small town.

Medication and Expectations at This St. Johnsbury Recovery Home

The house accepts members taking any medication prescribed by a licensed medical professional, including medication for opioid use disorder. Members commit to twenty hours a week of work, volunteering or school, to recovery meetings, and to house rules that stay the same across the operator's network.