Freedom Arch

About Freedom Arch

Freedom Arch is a sober living operator in Atlanta, Georgia, providing recovery housing for men and women across the metro area.

A Recovery Housing Provider Built on Lived Experience

Tyler Schaker founded Freedom Arch and leads it as executive director, building the organization's approach directly on his own recovery. That background shapes the operator's model: mentorship and community accountability sit at the center, with clinical treatment handled by outside providers.

Not a Treatment Facility

Freedom Arch is explicit that it does not provide treatment. Its role is housing, structure and self-help mentoring built around the Twelve Steps, coordinated with therapists and treatment programs elsewhere in Atlanta when a resident needs them. That distinction matters for anyone comparing a sober living operator against a licensed clinical program.

Georgia's Voluntary Certification Standard

Georgia does not require a license to operate recovery housing, and certification through the Georgia Association of Recovery Residences, or GARR, remains a voluntary standard an operator can choose to pursue. A family evaluating any metro Atlanta recovery housing provider should ask directly what standard it holds itself to.

Serving Metro Atlanta

As Georgia's capital and the seat of Fulton County, Atlanta gives Freedom Arch access to a dense network of outpatient providers, Twelve Step meetings and entry-level employers, resources a resident needs to build a working routine after treatment.

Reaching Freedom Arch

Prospective residents apply directly through Freedom Arch. Given the organization's mentoring model, questions about the program's structure, its cost, and how it coordinates with outside treatment providers are best directed straight to the founder or program staff.