Associate Recovery Communities

About Associate Recovery Communities

Associate Recovery Communities is a sober living operator based in Clearwater, Florida, running recovery housing across Pinellas and Pasco counties in the Tampa Bay area. The organization describes its purpose as building a bridge between substance abuse treatment centers and the independent maintenance of long-term sobriety, combining twelve-step programming with peer support across every house it runs.

A Tampa Bay Recovery Housing Provider

Associate Recovery Communities supplies housing and structure. Residents keep their own outpatient counselors and prescribers, and the operator's job is to keep each house's rules, meetings and standards consistent whether a resident lands in Clearwater or New Port Richey.

Serving Clearwater and New Port Richey

Five sober living homes carry the Associate Recovery Communities name:

• Parkside Apartments, on Rogers Street in Clearwater, for men.
• A women's house on Rogers Street in Clearwater, at the same Parkside Apartments complex.
• A coed house on South Betty Street in Clearwater.
• A women's house on Grace Drive in New Port Richey.
• A men's house on Grace Drive in New Port Richey, at the same address.

Three of the five sit in Clearwater and two in New Port Richey, giving the operator a foothold in both Pinellas and Pasco counties without spreading its houses too thin to manage from one office.

Separate Housing for Men and Women

Associate Recovery Communities keeps men and women in distinct programs, even where two programs share a street address. The Grace Drive and Rogers Street locations each host a men's house and a women's house side by side, run as separate households with their own meetings and their own house standards.

A Peer-Support and Twelve-Step Model

Every Associate Recovery Communities house runs on the same foundation: twelve-step meetings and peer accountability, with clinical treatment left to outpatient providers residents already work with. That consistency is what makes the operator's houses interchangeable if a resident's fit changes after move-in.

Medication-Assisted Recovery Across the Portfolio

Associate Recovery Communities accepts residents on medication-assisted treatment at every house it runs. For someone managing opioid use disorder with a prescribed medication, that policy removes a common barrier to sober housing in Florida.

Certification Under Florida's Approved Body

Florida certifies recovery residences through the Florida Association of Recovery Residences, the only credentialing entity the state's Department of Children and Families has approved for this kind of housing. Certification is voluntary, so anyone evaluating an Associate Recovery Communities house should confirm its current status directly with the operator.

Recovery Housing Across Pinellas and Pasco Counties

Clearwater and New Port Richey sit about twenty-five miles apart along the US-19 corridor that runs through the Tampa Bay area, and Associate Recovery Communities uses that stretch of road to keep its five houses within reach of each other. A resident who needs a different setting after move-in can raise it with an operator that already runs a house in the other county.