CODA

About CODA

CODA is a sober living operator in Portland, Oregon, running residential recovery homes and outpatient clinics across the Portland metro area and on the north Oregon coast. It is a nonprofit addiction treatment organization, and its residential locations are places people live while the program runs around them.

A Portland Metro Recovery Housing Provider

CODA works at both ends of the continuum. Outpatient clinics handle people who have housing and need treatment; residential locations handle people who need both at once. That structure is the thing to understand about the organization. A resident who enters at a residential address and later steps down to outpatient care stays inside one provider, with one chart, one set of relationships and no second intake. In a metro area where the gap between a treatment discharge and a housing placement is where most plans die, keeping both inside one organization is a structural advantage.

Residential Sober Living Locations Across Three Counties

The residential side of CODA reaches across the metro area and beyond it:

• Portland Recovery Center, on NE Couch Street in Portland, in Multnomah County.
• Tigard Men's Residential, on SW McDonald Street in Tigard, in Washington County.
• Beaverton Recovery Center, on NW Evergreen Place in Beaverton, also in Washington County.
• Gresham Women's and Men's Residential, on SE 182nd on the Portland and Gresham line.
• Stepping Stones, a recovery housing program in northwest Portland.
• Seaside Recovery Center, on South Roosevelt Drive in Seaside, in Clatsop County.

Multnomah, Washington and Clatsop counties are covered by that list, which spans a dense urban core, two suburban west-side cities and a coastal town eighty miles away.

Outpatient Clinics Alongside the Recovery Homes

Three outpatient sites fill in the map: Tigard, Hillsboro in Washington County, and Clackamas in the Happy Valley area of Clackamas County. Those are clinics, not housing. Their value to someone living in one of the residences is that treatment does not have to end when housing does, and a resident who moves to a different part of the metro area after leaving a house can often keep the same provider.

Recovery Housing on the North Oregon Coast

The Seaside location is unusual for a metro-based provider. Clatsop County has around forty thousand residents and very little residential treatment capacity, and the nearest alternative is eighty miles inland. People from Astoria, Warrenton, Cannon Beach and the coastal communities south of them who go to Portland for care frequently have nowhere local to return to. A residential bed in Seaside keeps a coastal resident inside reach of family, work and the county's own services in Astoria, and it connects that person to an organization operating at metro scale.

Oregon Sober Living Accreditation and What It Would Establish

Oregon does not license recovery residences. Accreditation is voluntary and is administered by the Mental Health and Addiction Certification Board of Oregon, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences, and it is granted to a provider organization instead of to an individual address. A provider holding it commits to a published code of ethics, to written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, to a documented relapse and discharge policy, and to a complaint process reaching outside the house. Anyone comparing Oregon recovery housing providers should ask the organization directly what it holds and what standards govern the way its houses are run.

Who These Oregon Recovery Homes Are For

The residential locations suit people coming out of detox, a hospital stay or incarceration who need clinical structure and a bed in the same building. Someone who already has stable housing and needs treatment alone is better served by one of the outpatient clinics. Someone who has finished clinical care and needs a substance-free household while they work is closer to what the Stepping Stones housing program is for. The organization's spread across the metro area means the answer to which of those a person needs does not have to be settled by geography.