Phoenix House of Idaho

About Phoenix House of Idaho

Phoenix House of Idaho is a sober living operator based in Boise, Idaho, running recovery homes in Boise and Mountain Home. Ryan and April York, a physical therapist and a middle-school teacher, bought their first sober living house in 2015, and Chris Mecham joined the organization in 2016.

A Locally Founded Idaho Recovery Housing Provider

The organization was started by two people who lived in the city where they bought the house, and that origin still describes how it works. Admissions, fees and discharge decisions are made locally by people a resident can reach. The organization's standing rests on one set of neighbors, one local referral network and its reputation with the Treasure Valley providers who send it residents. A small operator publishes less and markets less, and returns calls on its own schedule, which is the trade a resident accepts for dealing with the people who own the program.

Sober Homes in Boise and Mountain Home

Two houses carry the organization's name in different parts of southwestern Idaho: a women's house on North Mitchell Street in Boise, and a men's house on North 6th East Street in Mountain Home. Boise is the seat of Ada County; Mountain Home is the seat of Elmore County, out on the Interstate 84 corridor toward Twin Falls. The pairing matters because Elmore County has almost no recovery housing of any kind, and an operator with a Boise base is one of the few positioned to keep beds open there.

Men's and Women's Sober Houses Under One Operator

The organization runs single-gender households, split by house instead of by wing. Women apply to the Boise address and men to the Mountain Home address. Keeping the division at the house level means the rules, the meetings and the shared space are written for one population, and it means an applicant's options depend on geography as much as gender. Anyone applying should confirm which houses currently have beds, since a two-house operator's availability changes faster than a large one's.

Parent and Child Recovery Housing

The organization describes parent and child recovery housing as part of its work. Very few Idaho recovery residences accept children, and for a parent in early recovery that single question usually decides where she can go and whether she can go anywhere at all. Anyone for whom this is the deciding factor should ask directly which address takes children, what ages, and what the arrangement requires of a parent, and should get the answer in writing before a move-in date is set.

An Idaho Sober Living Operator Without a State Registry to Join

Idaho has no certifying body for recovery residences. There is no registry, no published levels, and no state affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. An Idaho operator that wanted to be certified has nothing to apply to. So the questions certification would settle belong to the applicant: how long the organization has housed residents, whether treatment providers and drug courts refer to it, how fees and deposits are documented and refunded, and how a complaint moves past a house manager to the founders.

Applying to These Idaho Recovery Homes

Applications go to the organization, which places residents between its houses. Ask what the fee is at the address on offer and what it covers. Ask whether a house manager lives on site and how many residents share a bedroom. Ask what ends a stay and how much notice comes with it. Ask whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted and how it is stored. Ask what the first thirty days require. Idaho compels none of these disclosures, so a written answer is the resident's own protection. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare runs Idaho's regional behavioral health system.