Nelson House Men's Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

Nelson House is a certified men's sober living home in Poulsbo, Washington, in Kitsap County, operated by Gambit Recovery.

A Men's Sober House in Poulsbo

Nelson House serves men in recovery, building what Gambit Recovery calls a strong sense of community and stability where residents rebuild daily habits and a sense of purpose alongside other men working the same process. Poulsbo sits on Liberty Bay on the Kitsap Peninsula, a smaller waterfront city that still gives residents a short drive to the larger job and service base in Bremerton and Silverdale.

What WAQRR Certification Establishes

Certification through the Washington Alliance for Quality Recovery Residences requires a residence to publish a code of ethics, disclose fees and rules in writing before move-in, and accept complaints from outside the house. Washington does not mandate this certification, so Nelson House's status reflects a voluntary standard its operator chose to meet.

Gambit Recovery's Structured Model

Gambit Recovery runs its houses on clear rules and curfews, random drug and alcohol testing, required attendance at recovery meetings, daily chores, and peer mentorship among residents. The operator prices its housing among the lower end for structured sober living nationally, an approach built by founders who went through sober living themselves before designing the model Nelson House runs on.

Recovery Housing on the Kitsap Peninsula

Kitsap County's population and services concentrate around Bremerton, Silverdale and Poulsbo, and Nelson House sits inside that same corridor. A resident here has outpatient providers, meetings and public services within a short drive, without the cost or density of housing on the other side of Puget Sound in Seattle.

A National Sober Living Network

Nelson House is part of a larger operator running certified sober housing across four states, which means the structure, testing policy and house rules a resident learns in Poulsbo are the same ones Gambit Recovery runs everywhere else it operates.