Chrysalis Women's Transitional Living

About Chrysalis Women's Transitional Living

Chrysalis Women's Transitional Living is a women's sober living operator in Boise, Idaho, providing faith-based recovery housing in Ada County. It has housed adult women in the Treasure Valley for more than two decades and runs three homes, including a main campus.

A Faith-Based Women's Recovery Housing Provider

The organization describes its work as safe and sober housing for adult women in a healthy, positive, faith based environment, built on classes, support, accountability, safety and structure. That description is a filter, and treating it as one is the honest way to use it. For some women the faith component is the reason to choose this provider. For others it is the reason to look elsewhere. Both should ask the same question on a first call: which parts of the program are required of every resident.

Courage to Change as a Recovery Housing Program

Residents enter a defined six-month program the organization calls Courage to Change. A fixed length changes what recovery housing is. There is a curriculum of classes, a beginning and an expected end, and a household of women who all committed to the same six months at roughly the same time. Month-to-month housing with rules attached is a different product. A woman weighing this one should ask what the classes cover, what happens if she needs longer than six months, and what the last week of the program is supposed to produce.

A Long-Running Boise Sober Living Operator

Two decades in the same city is the strongest credential available to an Idaho recovery housing provider, because it is the only one the state permits anyone to earn. Over that span an organization is observed continuously by outpatient providers, probation officers, hospital discharge planners and the recovery centers that refer to it. Those people hold the institutional memory that a registry would otherwise hold, and they are worth calling. Three homes and a main campus also mean the organization has scaled past a single house without abandoning one city.

What Idaho Leaves to Women's Recovery Housing Providers

Idaho has no certifying body for recovery residences, no registry, and no state affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. Nothing about a program like this is filed with an agency that reviews it, and no Idaho body publishes levels for any residence. Where an affiliate exists, certification obliges written disclosure of fees and rules, a written relapse and discharge policy, and complaint review from outside the household. An Idaho provider can offer all three voluntarily, and an applicant should ask for all three.

Reaching This Boise Sober Living Operator

Applications go directly to the organization. The questions worth asking at the operator level differ from the ones about a particular address: how long the program has operated in the Treasure Valley, whether it takes referrals from treatment providers, hospitals and the courts, what the six months cost and how that money is documented, whether any scholarship or sliding scale exists, and how a complaint gets escalated past a house to the people running the organization. Idaho's Department of Health and Welfare is the state agency responsible for Idaho's behavioral health programs.