Journey's Homes

About Journey's Homes

Journey's Homes is a sober living operator in Saint Paul, Minnesota, providing women's recovery housing in Ramsey County. The company runs two houses in the city, both near the University Avenue corridor, and takes applications directly.

A Small Saint Paul Sober Living Operator

Small operators work differently from large programs, and the differences are worth understanding before applying. Admission decisions get made quickly, usually by the person who answers the phone. House rules come from an owner who visits, not from a policy manual written in another state. The trade is that a small company publishes less and markets less, so an applicant has to ask for what a larger organization would post on a website.

Women's Recovery Homes in Ramsey County

Two residences carry the Journey's Homes name, both serving women:

• Terry House, on Van Buren Avenue in the Thomas-Dale neighborhood of Saint Paul.
• Kai House, on Carroll Avenue in the Lexington-Hamline area of Saint Paul.

They sit roughly a mile apart on either side of the University Avenue corridor, which means the Green Line, the same bus routes, the same clinics and the same meeting schedule serve both. A resident who needs to change houses keeps everything else about her week intact.

Serving Women in Early Recovery

Both houses are single gender. For women whose substance use is entangled with unsafe relationships, that restriction is often the condition that makes the first months workable, and it settles questions about bathrooms, visitors and daytime household composition before anyone has to raise them.

Recovery Housing in the Capital City

Saint Paul is the seat of Ramsey County and the state capital, and it holds the county courthouse, human services, probation, child protection, the workforce center, outpatient providers and Regions Hospital. Women arriving from treatment elsewhere in Minnesota usually settle here because it is the address from which every obligation is reachable on a bus pass.

Working With This Sober Living Operator

Applications go to Journey's Homes directly. Useful questions at the company level include how long it has housed women in Saint Paul, whether it takes referrals from treatment providers and county case managers, how fees and deposits are documented and returned, whether a resident can move between the two houses, and how a complaint is handled when a house manager cannot settle it. Minnesota's voluntary certification program through the Minnesota Association of Sober Homes is built around getting answers like those in writing.