Quad Cities Sober Living

About Quad Cities Sober Living

Quad Cities Sober Living is a sober living operator in Davenport, Iowa, providing private-pay recovery housing for men in Scott County. It supports the twelve-step program of recovery in a structured, safe, clean and accountable atmosphere, and it houses men in furnished apartments with live-in staff.

A Private-Pay Recovery Housing Provider

The operator states its position without ambiguity. It is not a treatment center, it offers no treatment or therapy of any kind, and it works with no insurance companies whatsoever. Residents pay privately. That model has a real consequence for a resident: nothing about the stay is dictated by an insurer's authorization cycle, and the length of a tenancy is decided between the resident and the operator. It also means the cost falls entirely on the household, which is the trade being made.

Live-In Staff Inside the Sober Living Apartments

Structure here is supervised. Live-in staff set wake-up times and curfews, run daily check-ins, monitor required recovery meeting attendance, and administer frequent random drug and alcohol testing, with testing costs included and never billed to insurance. Residents are expected to be occupied during the day through school, part-time or full-time work, volunteering, or outpatient treatment obtained elsewhere. An operator that puts staff inside the building is spending money on the hours when most relapses begin.

A Sober Living Operator Founded by a Former Resident

The director is an Iowan who began drinking at nineteen while at the University of Northern Iowa, spent six years in and out of jails and institutions, and got sober in 2015 at a treatment center in Illinois before moving through long-term treatment in Connecticut and into sober living in Seattle. He worked for a Seattle sober living operator from 2017, opened and managed its Kirkland, Washington house until 2019, and returned to Iowa to start this company because structured sober living is how he got sober himself. He is studying entrepreneurial management at the University of Iowa. Lived experience of this kind does not guarantee good operations, and it does mean the person setting the rules has been subject to them.

Furnished Sober Living Apartments for New Residents

Housing is apartment-based, fully furnished, with shared or private bedrooms available. All utilities, laundry, cable and internet are included, and each apartment is stocked down to towels, bedding, kitchenware and cleaning supplies. A new resident brings clothing and groceries. For a man arriving from treatment with two bags and no furniture, that removes the startup cost that otherwise makes independent housing impossible for the first year.

Where This Quad Cities Sober Living Operator Works

The company currently houses men in Davenport, the seat of Scott County and the Iowa anchor of a two-state metro on the Mississippi. A women's house is planned. Iowa has no NARR affiliate and publishes no register of certified recovery residences, since certification intake runs through the state health department on a voluntary basis, so an applicant's best tools here are the operator's published rules, its stated inclusions and the answers it gives in writing before a deposit changes hands.