Highlife Recovery

About Highlife Recovery

Highlife Recovery is a sober living operator in Columbus, Ohio, connected to a certified recovery housing campus in Franklin County. The organization has operated since 2015 and delivers outpatient addiction treatment alongside housing run by an affiliated company, Highlife Sober Living LLC.

A Columbus Recovery Housing Provider and Treatment Organization

Two companies operate under the Highlife name. Highlife Recovery delivers clinical services: intensive outpatient treatment, group counseling, case management, medication for opioid use disorder, aftercare and virtual services. Highlife Sober Living LLC runs the housing as a separate legal entity. Residents enroll in treatment services as a condition of living on the campus, and the two arms are built to work as one pathway.

Certified Sober Living Under Ohio Recovery Housing

The Ohio Recovery Housing certified register lists multiple residences under the Highlife Sober Living licensee, men's and women's, in the 43224 and 43229 ZIP codes, each certified at the Managed level. Managed is the middle of Ohio's three levels, above Peer-Run and below Supervised, and it describes housing with staff oversight and defined structure. The register also records the residences as MAT supported.

Where This Sober Living Operator Works

Housing is concentrated on the north side of Columbus, in Franklin County. The clinical arm keeps offices in Columbus on Cleveland Avenue, in Circleville in Pickaway County and in Tiffin in Seneca County, which extends the treatment side well beyond the housing footprint. A resident in the Columbus houses can reach the Cleveland Avenue office on a single bus line.

Accreditation Behind These Sober Homes

The organization holds CARF International accreditation and certification from the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. Those are clinical credentials covering the treatment side, and they sit alongside the housing certification. Together they mean an outside body has examined both halves of the operation, which is more scrutiny than most recovery housing carries.

How These Recovery Homes Are Structured

The housing runs on a three-phase model. Structure is heaviest at the start and loosens as a resident demonstrates accountability. Full progression takes about a year, with no maximum stay. Requirements include weekly twelve-step attendance, a sponsor and step work within thirty days, employment within thirty days, twice-weekly house meetings, curfew and randomized drug testing.

Reaching This Columbus Sober Living Operator

Applications are taken online and by phone through the organization. Questions to raise at the operator level: how the housing company and the treatment company divide responsibility when something goes wrong, whether a resident can keep an outside prescriber or therapist, what the monthly cost is and what it includes, whether financial assistance applies, and how a resident's placement changes if they progress or relapse. The organization publishes a sober living scholarship, which is worth asking about directly.