Project Quest dba Quest Center for Integrative Health

About Project Quest dba Quest Center for Integrative Health

Project Quest dba Quest Center for Integrative Health is a sober living operator in Portland, Oregon, in Multnomah County. The integrative health nonprofit has run recovery housing and outpatient treatment across the Portland area since 1989, and it is accredited by the Mental Health & Addiction Certification Board of Oregon.

Three Recovery Residences Tied to Outpatient Treatment

Quest Center operates three transitional houses, and a bed in any of them is conditional on being enrolled in the organization's own outpatient substance use disorder program. The Foster House serves LGBTQIA2S+, HIV positive and non-binary residents and runs in partnership with Bridges to Change. The Lents House, also a Bridges to Change partnership, is open to all identities. The Woodstock House is owned and operated by Quest Center itself and prioritizes LGBTQIA2S+ and BIPOC residents. Stays run about six months.

Recovery Housing Built Around Identity

Quest Center has worked with LGBTQIA2S+ and HIV positive communities in Portland since 1989, and the housing carries that history. General population recovery housing asks a queer, trans or HIV positive resident to manage their identity on top of managing early sobriety, and asks a Black or Indigenous resident to be the only one in the building. Houses organized around those populations remove that load. The organization runs HIV services, gender-affirming care pathways, mental health services and peer support alongside the treatment program, so a resident is not assembling that care from separate providers.

What Living in a Quest Recovery Home Requires

The organization publishes the conditions plainly:

1. A toxicology analysis free of drugs and alcohol.
2. Active engagement in Quest Center outpatient substance use treatment.
3. Attendance at house meetings and weekly case management.
4. Participation in required recovery activities.
5. Completion of Rent Well classes.

Rent Well is the requirement that shows what this operator thinks housing is for. It is a tenant readiness course producing a certificate that participating Oregon landlords recognize, and building it into a six month stay aims the whole program at a lease, with the discharge date as a milestone along the way.

An Integrative Health Provider Behind the Sober Homes

Quest Center is a clinic as well as a housing provider. It offers primary medical care, naturopathic medicine, acupuncture, Chinese medicine, nutrition, massage, individual and group therapy, a chronic pain management program and telehealth, in addition to its addiction and HIV services. Residents therefore have a medical home and a treatment team in the same organization that holds their housing, which is a materially different arrangement from renting a bed and finding a doctor separately. That integration is the point of the name.

MHACBO Accreditation and Oregon Recovery Housing Standards

The organization holds accreditation from the Mental Health & Addiction Certification Board of Oregon, Oregon's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. Accreditation is voluntary in this state and only about two dozen organizations carry it. It binds a provider to a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint process a resident can use without going through the house. Admission runs through Quest Center's behavioral health intake, and the questions worth asking there are what the housing costs, what coverage applies to the treatment it requires, and what happens to housing if someone steps out of the treatment program.