Crosswinds Recovery

About Crosswinds Recovery

Crosswinds Recovery is a sober living operator in Missoula, Montana, running four structured recovery houses in Missoula County alongside a state-licensed outpatient addiction treatment program. The nonprofit began in January 2019 with the aim of reducing barriers for people coming out of incarceration.

A Missoula Recovery Housing Provider With Treatment In House

Most recovery housing organizations rent a bed and refer out for care. This one holds a state license for outpatient chemical dependency services and delivers them itself. Case management, peer support specialists, laboratory drug testing, and group and individual counseling all come from the same agency that houses the resident, which closes the gap where people usually fall through. The intensive outpatient program runs ninety days; the housing has no fixed end date.

Four Missoula Sober Houses Under One Operator

• Bancroft, in Missoula.
• Bel Vue, in Missoula.
• Redrock, in Missoula.
• Livingston, in Missoula. The name refers to the house, and the address is in Missoula County.

All four sit inside the city, and the operator does not publish street addresses. Houses are single-gender, with programming in the women's house written for women specifically, and placement is assigned at admission.

One Set of Expectations Across These Recovery Homes

Residents at every address agree to the same terms: random drug and alcohol testing, nightly curfews, weekly house meetings, attendance at recovery and support groups, house chores, and participation in the operator's outpatient treatment. A single rulebook across four houses means a transfer is an administrative move instead of a renegotiation, and a resident who needs a different household does not have to leave the organization to get one.

Practical Support Beyond the Sober House

The agency connects residents to Medicaid and SNAP enrollment, financial resources, employment opportunities, twelve-step groups, spiritual communities, community volunteering and permanent housing. That last item is the one that decides what happens at discharge. Recovery housing that never touches the permanent housing question tends to return people to the situation they left, and building it into the program is what makes an open-ended stay purposeful.

Serving Missoula County and Western Montana

Missoula is the county seat and the service center for the western third of the state. The district court, Providence St. Patrick Hospital, the University of Montana, Missoula College and the region's entry-level employment are all in the city, and Mountain Line runs fare-free buses between them. Residents arrive from Ravalli, Mineral, Sanders and Lake counties as often as from Missoula, because this is where the appointments, the jobs and the meetings actually are.

Choosing This Missoula Sober Living Operator

Applications go to Crosswinds Recovery directly. At the operator level the useful questions are about the organization: how long it has run housing in Missoula, whether outpatient enrollment is a condition of holding a bed, how fees and deposits are documented and refunded, how compliance is documented for probation and parole, and how a complaint escalates past the house. Montana requires every recovery residence in the state to register with the Department of Public Health and Human Services, and certification through Recovery Access Montana is a separate, voluntary credential.