Freedom Sober Living

About Freedom Sober Living

Freedom Sober Living is a sober living operator based in Phoenix, Arizona, running certified recovery housing across Maricopa County. It trades as Freedom Sober Living LLC and operates around thirty houses in Phoenix, Glendale, Mesa, Avondale and Tempe, most of them certified by the Arizona Recovery Housing Association, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences.

A Phoenix Recovery Housing Provider

Freedom Sober Living is a housing organization. Its residences supply structure, peer accountability and a stable address, and the clinical work happens at outpatient providers elsewhere in the Valley. Residents keep their own prescribers, therapists and meetings. The operator's job is to keep the houses sound, the weekly rate the same from one address to the next, and the rules consistent, which is the part a resident notices when moving between households. Each house has its own manager living in it, and placement is handled centrally by the company.

Freedom Sober Living Sober Homes for Men

The company publishes a men's portfolio spread across the metro area. Arizona does not release street addresses for recovery residences, so the operator identifies each house by its nearest cross streets:

• Alice House, in Glendale, near 59th Avenue and Olive Avenue.
• Beryl House, in Glendale, near 71st Avenue and Peoria Avenue.
• Caballero House, in Mesa, near Lindsay Road and University Drive.
• Cambridge House, in Avondale, near Thomas Road and Avondale Boulevard.
• Claremont House, in Phoenix, near Bethany Home Road and State Route 51.
• College House, in Phoenix, near 67th Avenue and Camelback Road.
• Delcoa House, in Phoenix.
• Fairmount House, in Phoenix, near 7th Street and Indian School Road.
• Flynn House, in Phoenix.
• Garden House, in Phoenix, near 31st Avenue and Glendale Avenue.
• Glendale House, in Phoenix, near 37th Avenue and Glendale Avenue.
• Heatherbrae House, in Phoenix, near 83rd Avenue and Indian School Road.
• Indianola House, in Phoenix, near 19th Avenue and Osborn Road.
• La Jolla House, in Tempe, near Rural Road and US 60.
• Marshall House, in Phoenix, near 43rd Avenue and Bethany Home Road.
• McLellan House, in Phoenix, near 31st Avenue and Glendale Avenue.
• Ocotillo House, in Phoenix, near 10th Street and Ocotillo Road.
• Orangewood House, in Phoenix, near 35th Avenue and Glendale Avenue.
• Redfield House, in Phoenix, near 24th Avenue and Thunderbird Road.
• Roma House, in Phoenix, near 7th Street and Indian School Road.
• Royal Palm Men's House, in Phoenix, near 43rd Avenue and Northern Avenue.
• Ruth House, in Phoenix, near 35th Avenue and Dunlap Avenue.
• State House, in Phoenix, near 35th Avenue and Glendale Avenue.
• University House, in Phoenix, near 32nd Avenue and Marshall Avenue.
• Voltaire House, in Phoenix, near 31st Avenue and Thunderbird Road.
• Woodridge House, in Phoenix, near 42nd Avenue and Bell Road.

The clustering is deliberate and it has a practical effect. A large group sits in northwest Phoenix along the Glendale Avenue and Thunderbird Road corridors, so a resident who needs a different household can usually move without changing his bus route, his employer or his outpatient provider. The outliers matter for a different reason: Mesa, Avondale, Tempe and Glendale each hold very little certified recovery housing, and a bed in one of them lets someone stay in the part of the county where the rest of his life already is.

Women's Recovery Housing in the Portfolio

A smaller group of houses serves women, all of them in Phoenix:

• Mitchell House, in Phoenix, near Indian School Road and 44th Avenue.
• Pinchot House, in Phoenix.
• Royal Palm Women's House, in Phoenix, near 43rd Avenue and Northern Avenue.

The company also lists Cambridge House in Avondale and University House in Phoenix on its women's housing page, and both appear elsewhere as men's residences, so an applicant should confirm which population a given house is currently taking. Arizona's certified housing stock skews heavily toward men, and a woman looking for a certified bed in Maricopa County is working from a short list.

AzRHA Certification Across These Recovery Residences

The state roster lists this operator under two spellings of its legal name, with two dozen certified residences between them, all at Level 2. Level 2 is the NARR designation for peer-managed housing with a manager on site and clinical care obtained from outside providers. Certification is granted address by address in Arizona, and it is voluntary, so an operator carrying it across most of its portfolio has chosen to work inside a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules, a documented relapse and discharge policy and an external complaint process. Anyone comparing options should confirm the certification status of the specific house on offer.

What a Week Costs Across These Sober Homes

The company publishes one rate for its men's houses, $225 per week for a shared room, and one for its women's houses, $235 per week, each with a $35 discount for residents paying their own way. Laundry, WiFi and streaming are included. A single published figure across thirty addresses is the strongest practical argument for choosing a multi-house operator, because a transfer does not change the arithmetic a resident has already planned around.

Licensing and This Arizona Sober Living Operator

Arizona is unusual in licensing sober living homes directly. State law requires a sober living home to hold a license from the Arizona Department of Health Services, and that license is a separate credential from NARR certification. A house may hold one, both or neither, and the terms are used loosely in advertising. Anyone evaluating a recovery housing provider in this state should ask about both, and about the specific address, since neither credential attaches to a company as a whole.

Who These Maricopa County Recovery Homes Are For

The houses suit someone leaving detox, residential treatment or incarceration who has somewhere to be during the day and needs the day to be predictable. Anyone who needs clinical supervision in the building is a poor match. Applications go through Freedom Sober Living, which means an applicant is considered against the whole map instead of a single address, and a placement that turns out wrong is a conversation with people who already know him. In a county that holds most of Arizona's population and most of its certified recovery housing, that reach is the difference between a bed and the right bed.