New Beginnings North

About New Beginnings North

New Beginnings North is a sober living operator in Chicago, Illinois, providing recovery housing for men in Cook County on the city's North Side.

A Named Owner Behind the Operation

New Beginnings North publishes Patrice Coine as its owner. A recovery housing provider that names its owner in public gives a family or a discharge planner one accountable point of contact for the whole operation, rather than a brand with nobody attached to it.

Recovery Housing for Men Only

New Beginnings North is limited to men only. An operator that fixes its population that way settles a question a referring agency has to answer before any other, because it determines who the household is built for. It also means every placement this operator takes is measured against one household rather than sorted between several.

What This Operator Includes in Its Program

The operator's program covers a structured program plus gas, electric, water, cable TV, and high-speed internet with wireless access. Bundling those services is a business decision as much as a program one, and it keeps a resident's obligations to the operator simple. A single arrangement covering the housing and the utilities is also easier for a family member or a case worker helping with cost to understand and to plan around.

Working Alongside Outpatient Providers

New Beginnings North assists residents with finding outpatient services such as therapy or counseling and medical or psychiatric care. The operator's part in that arrangement is to connect residents to providers elsewhere in Chicago and to hold the living environment steady around them. That division of labor is what separates a recovery housing provider from a treatment organization: the clinical work belongs to someone else, and the operator's job is the place a man comes back to at the end of it.