Hope Manor Foundation

About Hope Manor Foundation

Hope Manor Foundation is a sober living operator in Bismarck, North Dakota, the seat of Burleigh County. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation providing structured residential living for men and women recovering from alcoholism and addiction, and it has been housing people in North Dakota since January 2014.

A Bismarck Recovery Housing Provider Founded in 2013

The foundation was established in 2013 and opened its first North Dakota housing in January 2014. More than a decade of continuous operation in one city is a meaningful credential in a state with no certification program to point at. It means the organization has survived staff turnover, funding cycles and the ordinary difficulty of running recovery housing, and that referring providers in Bismarck have been sending people there long enough to know how it goes.

Who Runs This Sober Living Operator

Judith Roberts founded the foundation. She is a former criminal defense attorney and has been in recovery herself since January 19, 2009. That combination shapes the organization in ways a resident notices: someone who has defended people through the justice system understands what a supervision condition, a pending charge or a suspended license actually demands week to week, and someone in long-term recovery understands what the first ninety days feel like from the inside.

The Hub and Recovery Support Beyond the Sober Homes

The foundation also operates The Hub Community Recovery Center, a meeting space serving the wider Bismarck recovery community along with support for newly recovering people and their family members. An operator that runs a community center as well as housing gives a resident somewhere to be that is not the house, and it gives families a way in. Recovery is a household event, and an organization set up to talk to the family is one fewer thing a resident has to manage alone.

A Nonprofit Recovery Housing Provider in Burleigh County

Nonprofit status is a public record, and it tells someone comparing operators where the money goes and who is answerable for it. Bismarck is the state capital and the seat of Burleigh County, and with Mandan across the Missouri River in Morton County it forms the deepest service footprint in central North Dakota. State offices, the district court, Bismarck State College and the region's hospitals are all inside one bus system. An operator that has worked that footprint since 2014 knows which employers hire, which meetings are worth going to, and which caseworkers return calls.

What to Ask This Bismarck Sober Living Operator

The questions worth putting to an operator are different from the ones about a particular address. Ask how long the organization has been housing residents in Bismarck and how many it has served. Ask whether it takes referrals from treatment providers, the courts and probation. Ask how fees and deposits are documented and refunded, what the expected length of stay is, and how a complaint gets escalated past the house to the foundation itself. A nonprofit operating for more than a decade should have all of those answers ready.