Harbor House

About Harbor House

Harbor House is a Fort Smith, Arkansas behavioral health agency and recovery housing provider working in western and central Arkansas. It treats addiction and it houses people afterward, running detox, residential treatment, outpatient care and transitional living out of Fort Smith and Hot Springs.

A Fort Smith Recovery Housing Provider With Clinical Depth

Harbor House Inc. describes itself as a behavioral health agency dedicated to providing hope and healing for those suffering from addiction. That framing is accurate and it matters when choosing between providers. This is a clinical organization that operates housing, so the housing is one stage of a program with a beginning before it. Somebody entering transitional living here has usually already been through the agency's own detox and residential programs, and the staff reading the application already have a file.

Where These Arkansas Sober Homes Are

The organization's Fort Smith transitional living houses are:

• Harbor House - North 19th Street, in Fort Smith, for men.
• Harbor House - North 5th Street, in downtown Fort Smith, for women.

A third Fort Smith transitional track serves Specialized Women's Services participants. In Hot Springs, in Garland County, the agency runs a coed residential program plus men's and women's transitional living. The main office and mailing address is on South 21st Street in Fort Smith.

A Full Continuum of Care Behind the Recovery Homes

The published programs run from observational non-medical detox through 30, 60 and 90 day gender-specific residential treatment under the names Harbor Recovery Center for men and Gateway Recovery Center for women, into outpatient therapy and telehealth, and then into transitional living. Specialized Women's Services supports pregnant women and women with children. The value of that structure is continuity. A resident who relapses in transitional living has a clinical program to step back into inside the same organization, which is a materially different outcome from being discharged into nothing.

CARF Accreditation and This Arkansas Sober Living Operator

Harbor House publishes accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities and a United Way affiliation. Arkansas licenses clinical treatment through its Department of Human Services and leaves recovery residences to voluntary certification. An operator carrying clinical licensure and outside accreditation is reviewed on a schedule by people who do not work for it. When someone is comparing recovery housing providers in western Arkansas from another state, that is the single most checkable thing on the table.

Serving Fort Smith, Hot Springs and Western Arkansas

Fort Smith is the seat of Sebastian County, the second largest city in Arkansas, and the service hub for a region reaching across the Oklahoma line. Hot Springs is the seat of Garland County, in the Ouachita Mountains of west-central Arkansas, a two-hour drive southeast. Holding programs at both ends of that stretch gives the organization something few Arkansas operators have: the ability to move a resident away from the town where they were using without moving them out of the same program.

Men's and Women's Sober Houses Under One Application

Admissions for every house run through the agency. Applicants are assessed for the level of care they need across the whole continuum, so the conversation is about which stage fits instead of which building has a free bed. Ask at the operator level how long the organization has run housing in Arkansas, what the transitional living cost is and what it includes, what qualifies a resident to move from residential treatment into a house, whether referrals from outside the agency are accepted, and how a complaint escalates past the house staff.