Monarch Sober Living Homes

About Monarch Sober Living Homes

Monarch Sober Living Homes is a sober living operator in the Denver metropolitan area of Colorado, running seven recovery houses across Denver, Lakewood and Wheat Ridge. The portfolio holds separate men's and women's households plus a house for LGBTQIA plus women.

A Denver Area Sober Living Operator

The company works across three municipalities in two counties, Denver and Jefferson, and keeps its households small and single population. Applications are handled centrally, so an applicant is considered for whichever house fits instead of for one address at a time. Clinical care is not part of what the operator provides. Residents keep their own prescribers, therapists and meetings, and the houses supply the address and the structure around it.

Seven Recovery Homes in Denver, Lakewood and Wheat Ridge

The operator publishes seven houses:

• Wheat Ridge Men's and Wheat Ridge Women's.
• Lakewood Men's and Lakewood Women's.
• A Lakewood house for LGBTQIA plus women, near the Belmar district.
• Denver Men's, a remodeled Victorian near City Park and the Denver Botanic Gardens.
• Denver Women's.

The Lakewood addresses sit inside Jefferson County with the county seat at Golden, and the Denver houses sit inside the city and county of Denver. The W Line light rail connects the two sides, which keeps a job on one side of the metro workable from a house on the other.

Men's, Women's and LGBTQIA Plus Sober Houses

Splitting the portfolio by gender at the house level means house rules, meetings and shared space are written for one population and nobody is the only man or the only woman in a mixed building. Naming an LGBTQIA plus household goes a step further. It settles a question that a general statement of welcome leaves open, and it means an applicant is not relying on the goodwill of whoever happens to be living there.

Certification and Colorado Recovery Housing Rules

Colorado approves certifying bodies instead of licensing sober living directly, and Ohio Recovery Housing - Colorado is the organization that certifies recovery residences in the state today. A certified house has agreed in writing to a code of ethics, to disclosing fees and rules before move in, to a relapse and discharge policy on paper, and to a complaint route outside the household. House Bill 19-1009 tied state referrals and state funding to that certificate. Anyone applying should ask this operator directly about its current certification status for the specific house on offer, and ask for the written fee and rule disclosures at the same time.

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

Reaching This Recovery Housing Provider

The company takes applications directly. Useful operator level questions include how long it has run houses in each city, whether it accepts referrals from treatment providers and courts, what the deposit covers and when it is returned, how medication assisted treatment is handled across the portfolio, and how a complaint escalates past a house manager.