Rick House Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Rick House is a sober living home in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, in Eau Claire County. It offers recovery housing in a city that anchors the Chippewa Valley's treatment and outpatient network.

A Sober Living Home in Eau Claire

Eau Claire's recovery housing stock includes both certified and uncertified sober living homes, and Rick House operates in that same landscape. What a prospective resident can confirm before moving in is limited to what the operator discloses directly, since Wisconsin does not license or inspect recovery residences the way it licenses clinical treatment.

What Wisconsin Sober Living Certification Would Establish

The only certification available to a Wisconsin recovery residence runs through the Wisconsin Association of Sober Housing, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. A certified house has committed in writing to a code of ethics, published fees and rules, a relapse and discharge policy, and outside complaint review. Certification is voluntary, so a house without it is not automatically worse, only less documented.

Recovery Housing in Eau Claire County

As the seat of Eau Claire County, Eau Claire holds the outpatient providers, the Eau Claire Transit bus network and the entry-level job market that most sober living residents in the region rely on. A house in the city puts a resident within that network without requiring a car on day one.

Questions Worth Asking Before Moving Into This Eau Claire Sober House

Applications go directly to the operator. Before signing anything, it is worth asking what the weekly fee covers, whether a house manager is on site, how bedrooms are assigned, what the relapse policy is, and whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted. A house that cannot answer those in writing gives a resident less to go on than a certified one would.