Hezelbrook Sober Living & Recovery

About Hazelbrook Sober Living & Recovery

Hazelbrook Sober Living & Recovery is a sober living operator based in Aurora, Colorado, running certified recovery housing across the Denver metropolitan area and the Front Range. The company operates more than thirty five sober living houses for men and women, four of them designated Transitional Safety Zone homes, and keeps offices in Aurora and Colorado Springs.

A Colorado Recovery Housing Provider at Scale

Geno Shvedov is a co-founder and the director. The organization has grown from a small Denver area operation into one of the larger recovery housing portfolios in Colorado, and the scale changes what a resident is buying. Standards, intake and certification are the same at every address, so a household that turns out to be a poor fit does not mean a new operator, a new application and a new deposit. It means a conversation with people who already know the resident.

Clinical care is not part of the offer. The houses supply structure, peer accountability and a stable address, and residents keep their own prescribers, therapists and meetings elsewhere in the metro.

Certified Sober Homes Across Colorado

Every house the company lists is certified through Ohio Recovery Housing - Colorado, the body approved by the state Behavioral Health Administration to certify recovery residences. Certification is granted residence by residence, so an applicant should confirm the specific house being offered. Certification binds each one to a written code of ethics, to disclosure of fees and rules before move in, to a written relapse and discharge policy, and to a complaint process that runs outside the house. Since House Bill 19-1009, state referrals and state funding follow that certificate.

The company also accepts Medicaid, and the state directory records rent subsidy as available across the portfolio.

Where This Sober Living Operator Works

The certified residences are spread across Aurora, Denver, Lakewood, Englewood, Westminster, Thornton, Boulder, Longmont, Colorado Springs and Pueblo. In Aurora the directory lists Waco, Andes and Elkhart at one East Exposition Avenue address and Fairplay and ParadigmONE on East Iliff Avenue. The rest of the portfolio runs under house labels including Pearl, Winona, Kenton, Ironton, Pierce, Owens, Cody, Pecos, Jamaica, Kittredge, Mississippi, Florida and the Lima, Moline, Billings and Highline triplexes.

Street addresses are withheld by policy. The company states that it does not disclose exact locations, out of respect for the privacy and anonymity of its residents, which is why its listings carry a city and a county and no house number.

Men's and Women's Sober Houses

The portfolio holds separate men's and women's households across the metro, which is what lets the operator place an applicant by fit instead of by whatever bed happens to be open. Family housing is not offered anywhere in the network, so children do not live in the houses. The state directory records the residences as not faith based, and no religious programming is required at any of them.

Recovery Housing for Veterans and Justice Involved Residents

Three populations are named directly in the state directory: residents referred by the Department of Corrections, veterans, and LGBTQ plus residents. Each carries a different practical demand. A parole condition usually requires an approved address and a landlord willing to talk to an officer. A veteran often arrives with VA benefits and a VA prescriber already in place. An LGBTQ plus resident frequently arrives having already been treated badly somewhere else. Medication assisted treatment is supported across the network, so buprenorphine, methadone and naltrexone prescriptions do not have to be traded for a bed.

The Colorado Behavioral Health Administration maintains the statewide certified residence list.

Reaching This Sober Living Operator in Colorado

Applications go to the company, which places residents into whichever house has an open bed and suits the applicant. The questions worth asking at the operator level are different from the ones about a single address: how long the company has housed residents in a given city, whether it takes referrals from treatment providers, courts and the Department of Corrections, how deposits are documented and refunded, and how a complaint escalates past a house manager to the operator and then to the certifying body.