Nuvaya

About Nuvaya

Nuvaya is a sober living operator in Washington, D.C., providing residential addiction treatment and recovery housing across a three-phase continuum. The organization opened in 1985 as Samaritan Inns, founded by David Erickson and Killian Noe, and has since served more than sixteen thousand people in the Washington area. It owns eight properties in the District and is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities.

A Washington Recovery Housing Provider With a Full Continuum

Nuvaya describes itself as the only provider in the nation's capital offering a complete residential continuum of care, and the structure bears that out. Three programs carry the Nuvaya name:

• The Long-Term Recovery Program, on 14th Street NW in Washington, for single men and women with six months of sobriety.
• The Men's and Women's Treatment Programs, in Washington, a three to six month phase certified by the DC Department of Behavioral Health.
• The Women With Children Program, in Washington, for mothers and pregnant women in recovery.

Addresses for the second and third programs are not published, and placement runs through the organization rather than through any individual house.

One Application Across Several Sober Living Programs

Residents move through the phases with the same organization, which is the practical case for choosing a multi-program operator over a standalone sober home. Someone who completes a treatment phase is already known to the people who decide the next placement. Case managers, counselors and the intake team carry forward, so the handoff that usually loses people between treatment and housing happens inside one building of records.

A Recovery Housing Operator Working Where Its Clients Live

Nuvaya works with at-risk and homeless adults in Washington, and its properties are held in the city where its residents already have family, meetings and appointments. Many staff members were residents themselves. For someone leaving treatment with no savings and no stable address, an organization that owns its own housing stock in the District can offer a length of stay that a month-to-month rental market cannot.

Certification and District Recovery Homes

The DC Department of Behavioral Health certifies behavioral health providers, and Nuvaya's Phase 2 treatment programs hold that certification. Certification of that kind covers clinical service delivery. The District operates no separate registry or certification for recovery housing itself, so a family evaluating a Washington sober living operator is looking at provider credentials, accreditation and tenure. On all three, this organization has an unusually long public record for the field.

Serving Washington and the Surrounding Region

The 14th Street corridor in Columbia Heights sits at the center of the District's outpatient and mutual-aid network, with Green and Yellow Line service and several Metrobus routes converging within a few blocks. Nuvaya draws from across the city and the wider metropolitan area, and residents keep District appointments, court dates and jobs without leaving the transit network they already know.