Hope House

About Hope House

Hope House, Westchester, Illinois, is a sober living operator in Cook County serving men in recovery.

An Operator Started in 2003

Hope House was started in 2003 with the goal of giving men a new start, and 2003 is the founding year the operator publishes for itself. Everything else the organization says about its work is built on that starting point.

What Hope House Set Out to Do

The organization was founded to give recovering men a chance at real sobriety and a family setting, and that founding purpose is still how Hope House describes itself. The emphasis falls on the household as the recovery environment, which settles what kind of provider this is: sober housing rather than a treatment program.

Where Hope House Works

Hope House serves the western suburbs of Chicago and describes the neighborhoods it works in as low crime and safe. Where to operate is a decision every recovery housing provider makes, and this one has staked its case on suburban residential streets instead of the city.

The Model It Offers

Hope House runs its sober housing as a halfway like setting, a bridge for men leaving residential treatment who are not yet ready to live alone. Air conditioning, cable television and wireless internet come with the housing, and the provider sites that housing close to public transportation and near the area's 12-step meetings and Al-Anon clubs.

Finding Hope House in Western Cook County

For families comparing recovery housing providers across western Cook County, Hope House is a men's sober living operator working the western suburbs of Chicago. Searches for Hope House sober living in Westchester, Illinois lead to a provider organized around the household rather than the clinic.