Her Hope Rising Inc

About Her Hope Rising Inc

Her Hope Rising Inc is a sober living operator in Madill, Oklahoma, providing certified recovery housing for women in Marshall County. The nonprofit established the first Oklahoma Alliance for Recovery Resources-certified recovery residence in southern Oklahoma, and it serves women and their children across the region.

A Southern Oklahoma Recovery Housing Provider

The organization is a nonprofit working in a part of the state that has very little recovery housing of any kind. Its stated mission is trauma-informed recovery housing and supportive services for women affected by substance use disorder, trauma and justice involvement, with the explicit aim of reducing recidivism and stabilizing families. Being first in a region carries an obligation the organization has taken on directly, which is that for many women in these counties this provider is the option, and there is no second one down the road.

Peer-Run Recovery Housing and Certified Peer Support

The housing model is peer-led, using certified Peer Recovery Support specialists and evidence-based practice. Peer-run means the people holding the household accountable have been through recovery themselves and are credentialed by the state to do the work. For a woman leaving prison or treatment, that changes the character of the relationship. The person asking where she was last night has been asked the same question.

Family Restoration Alongside Sober Living

A distinct program runs beside the housing: individualized peer support and care coordination aimed at restoring children to safe, stable homes. Reunification is a documented process that runs on stable housing, verifiable income, clean screens and kept appointments, and it moves slowly. An organization that treats reunification as a named program instead of a hoped-for outcome gives a mother a case plan she can actually work while she is in the house.

Workforce Readiness Through a Recovery Housing Program

The third program is second-chance employability, preparing women with justice involvement for work that will hire them. In a rural county the barrier is rarely motivation. It is that the number of employers willing to look past a felony conviction is small and known, and a program with local relationships shortens the search. Housing, family restoration and employment are run as three connected services by the same organization.

Certification and This Sober Living Operator

Oklahoma exempts recovery residences from mandatory certification, so certification here is voluntary and it is the main public record on any provider. Certification through the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences binds a residence to a code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint process outside the house. This operator sought that credential in a region where nobody else had.

Serving Marshall County and Southern Oklahoma

Madill is the seat of Marshall County, on the north shore of Lake Texoma near the Texas line, and the surrounding counties are rural. Women in this region who need recovery housing have historically had to travel hours north to Oklahoma City or Tulsa, which usually means leaving children, a job and a support network behind. A provider based in the county seat lets a woman recover within reach of her own family and her own court.

Reaching This Southern Oklahoma Recovery Housing Provider

Applications go directly to the organization. The questions worth asking at the operator level differ from questions about a particular address: how long the nonprofit has housed women in southern Oklahoma, whether it takes referrals from treatment providers, drug courts and the department of corrections, how fees and deposits are documented and refunded, what the family restoration program requires of a mother, and how a complaint escalates past the house to the certifying body.