Portland Sober Living
About The Family Restored
The Family Restored is a nonprofit in Portland, Maine that operates Portland Sober Living, a recovery residence for men in Cumberland County. It is a New England based nonprofit that works to strengthen and support families affected by addiction, and it is a registered 501(c)(3).
About The Family Restored
The organization began in 2011 in Portland, Maine, when a small group of people in recovery started a support meeting to help families understand and cope with their loved one's addiction. That origin still defines its work: the family, not only the person using substances, is treated as the unit that needs support.
Family Programming
The Family Restored's programming is centered on family-identified needs. It offers weekly family support groups, twelve-step workshops, educational sessions, grief support and family peer coaching, along with scholarships that assist families financially with treatment and early-recovery housing.
Portland Sober Living
The Family Restored acquired ownership of Portland Sober Living in July 2022. The residence had by then earned a reputation for providing more than five years of high quality, twelve-step focused recovery housing in Portland, Maine. It is a proud member of the Maine Association of Recovery Residences and is certified at Level 2. Family involvement carries into the residence itself, with families invited into a resident's recovery process with his permission.
A Nonprofit Recovery Housing Provider in Portland
The Family Restored is a registered 501(c)(3), and that structure has practical consequences for a resident. Money the organization raises goes back into its programs, and the housing sits alongside the family groups, workshops and peer coaching as one part of a charitable mission. The nonprofit also maintains a scholarship fund, and financial assistance toward the cost of the residence is available through The Family Restored Scholarship Fund by application. For a family paying out of pocket for early recovery housing in Cumberland County, an operator with a formal assistance route is a different proposition from one with none.
Questions to Ask This Portland Sober Living Operator
The questions worth putting to the operator differ from the ones about the house. Tenure is already on the record: the organization has worked with Maine families since 2011 and has owned the residence since July 2022. What is not published is how the rest of it runs. Ask how applications and referrals arrive, and whether treatment providers, peer recovery centers and hospital case managers place men directly. Ask whether the family programming is open to the relatives of current residents. Ask how fees, deposits and the terms of the scholarship fund are documented, and what a resident is owed back if he leaves in his first weeks. Ask how a complaint travels: to the house first, then to the nonprofit that owns it, and then to the Maine Association of Recovery Residences, whose certification obliges an answer at each step.
