About this Recovery House
Sequoia House is a women's sober living home in Luck, Wisconsin, in Polk County, in the St. Croix River Valley. It holds NARR Level II certification from the Wisconsin Association of Sober Housing and is operated by Redwood Recovery Project Inc., a nonprofit founded by two substance use counselors who live in the county. The house holds up to eight women.
A Women's Sober House in Rural Polk County
This sober house serves women in recovery in a part of Wisconsin where the option barely exists. Polk County is rural, its people are spread across small villages and farm townships, and Luck is one of the smaller ones. A woman finishing treatment or leaving jail here has historically had two choices: go back to the household she was using in, or move to another state and start over among strangers. Eight beds inside her own county is a third, and the case for the house rests on that. The address is not published, and placement runs through the operator.
What NARR Level II Certification Means for This Sober House
The Wisconsin Association of Sober Housing is the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences and the only body that certifies recovery residences in Wisconsin. Certification is voluntary, which makes holding it a decision the operator made and paid for. It commits the residence in writing to a code of ethics, to disclosing fees and house rules before anyone moves in, to a written relapse and discharge policy, and to a complaint process that runs outside the house. Level II describes the model: peer-run housing with a manager or senior resident on site, structured expectations through the week, and clinical care delivered by outside providers. For a family helping someone choose from another county or another state, that record is what separates a certified recovery residence from a landlord renting rooms to women in early sobriety.
A Trauma-Informed Sober Living Program for Women
Redwood Recovery Project describes the house as a safe, supportive and trauma-informed sober living environment, built to bridge the gap between treatment or incarceration and independent living. In practice the program runs alongside the housing. Residents have access to peer-led support groups, recovery coaching, life skills training, and referrals into mental health and social services. The operator also organizes sober social activities and community involvement projects, which is a serious part of the model in a rural county where the social calendar and the drinking calendar are frequently the same calendar.
Recovery Homes That Accept Medication for Addiction Treatment
Residents using medication for addiction treatment are accepted here, and Wisconsin's recovery residence registry records that answer for every house on it. The state publishes the field because it decides so much. A woman stabilized on buprenorphine who is turned away from housing over her prescription tends to lose the prescription soon after. Keeping the medication and the address together is the reason the question sits on the state's form at all.
Recovery Housing in the St. Croix Valley
Luck sits in the northern half of Polk County, up the road from Balsam Lake, the county seat, and within an easy drive of St. Croix Falls and Amery. The valley runs along the Minnesota line, and the pull across that line is the defining fact of daily life here: a large share of the region's work, specialists and treatment capacity lies southwest, in another state. A certified women's recovery home inside Polk County lets a resident keep her county services, her case worker and her children's school district while she rebuilds a routine. In a place where the nearest alternative crosses a state border, that is the entire difference.
Applying to This Luck, Wisconsin Sober House
Applications go through Redwood Recovery Project. Certification obliges the house to hand an applicant its fees and rules in writing before she signs, so the questions to ask are the ones that document should already answer: what the weekly charge includes, what is expected around work, program attendance and house meetings, how bedrooms are assigned across the eight beds, how long a resident may stay, and what the discharge policy actually says. A certified residence has to put all of it on paper.
