First Step House

About First Step House

First Step House is a Utah sober living operator and nonprofit based in Salt Lake City that has run addiction treatment and recovery housing in Salt Lake County for decades. It combines outpatient and residential treatment, veterans transitional housing, reentry services and licensed recovery residences under one organization.

A Salt Lake City Recovery Housing Provider

First Step House treats housing as one piece of a larger continuum, not a standalone product. Someone can move through detox, residential treatment, a recovery residence and eventually permanent supportive housing without ever leaving the nonprofit's own system, which cuts down on the handoffs that often derail early recovery.

Men's Sober Homes Across Salt Lake County

First Step House operates roughly 52 beds of men's recovery housing at scattered addresses:

• 546 North Grant, in Salt Lake City.
• 474 North Grant, in Salt Lake City.
• 379 Redwood Road, a four-unit residence in Salt Lake City.
• Trolley Apartments, on East 600 South in Salt Lake City.

Two of the houses sit on the same block of Grant Street, giving the organization flexibility to place or relocate residents without changing neighborhoods.

Licensed Recovery Residences in Utah

Every recovery residence First Step House runs is licensed through the Utah Department of Health and Human Services Office of Licensing, under Utah Code 26B-2-117. Utah's licensing system is mandatory statewide, so a family evaluating any of these addresses can confirm the same regulatory record the state itself enforces.

Veterans and Reentry Housing Beyond Sober Living

Beyond its recovery residences, First Step House runs Valor House, transitional housing built specifically for veterans, and reentry programs for people leaving incarceration. That range means the organization already has infrastructure for populations that a smaller sober living operator would have to refer elsewhere.

Serving Rose Park and Central City

First Step House's recovery residences cluster in Rose Park, on Salt Lake City's west side, and in Central City near downtown. Both neighborhoods sit inside Salt Lake County's densest concentration of outpatient providers, public transit and entry-level employment, which is the practical reason the nonprofit has kept its housing in these two pockets of the city.