RECO Institute

About RECO Institute

RECO Institute is a sober living operator in Delray Beach, Florida, providing transitional recovery housing for men and women in Palm Beach County. It runs a group of named residences in the city alongside RECO Intensive, its treatment program, and keeps its offices at 140 Northeast 4th Avenue.

A Delray Beach Recovery Housing Provider

The organization's model pairs housing with clinical services under one roof of management. Residents live in single-gender houses and attend a treatment schedule set by the same organization, which removes the coordination problem that comes from renting a bed from one company and getting care from another. The housing is aimed at early recovery and at the transition out of it, and the residences are sized as households instead of facilities.

Men's and Women's Sober Homes in Delray Beach

Six residences carry the organization's name:

• The Hart, a women's house in Delray Beach.
• The Siebold, a women's house in Delray Beach and the organization's original residential facility.
• The Van Epps, a men's house in Delray Beach.
• The Tapper, a men's house in Delray Beach.
• The Row, a connected group of five men's houses in Delray Beach.
• RECO Institute, at 140 Northeast 4th Avenue in Delray Beach, the organization's published address.

Street addresses for the individual residences are not published, and placement runs through the organization. Two further properties, RECO Towers and RECO Ranch, are clinical and administrative offices instead of housing.

Separate Households for Men and Women in Recovery

Every residence is single-gender, and the organization keeps men's and women's housing in different houses. That structure means house rules, shared space and the daily rhythm are written for one population, and nobody is the only man or the only woman in a building. It also gives staff room to move a resident whose current household is a poor fit into another one without ending the placement or changing the treatment schedule.

Named Houses and What the Naming Says

The residences carry personal names, several of them memorials. The Van Epps is named for Cole Van Epps and The Tapper for David Tapper. Naming houses after people is a choice about how an organization talks to residents, and residents in these houses know whose name is on the door. It is a different posture from a numbered portfolio, and it tends to come from operators who have lost people.

A Recovery Housing Operator in Palm Beach County

Delray Beach sits on the Atlantic coast between Boynton Beach and Boca Raton, with West Palm Beach, the county seat, about twenty miles north. The city holds one of the densest recovery communities in the United States, and people arrive from across the country for it. Interstate 95, US Highway 1, the Tri-Rail line and Palm Tran all serve the corridor, so residents reach work, court and outpatient appointments across the county without cars. Concentrating every residence in one city keeps that whole network inside a few miles of any resident.

Certification, Licensure and Florida Recovery Housing

Florida distinguishes credentials that sound alike. A treatment license belongs to a clinical program. The Certified Recovery Residence Administrator credential belongs to a person. Certification of a residence is voluntary and runs through the Florida Association of Recovery Residences, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences, and it is granted residence by residence. Anyone evaluating a provider that runs both housing and treatment should ask which credential covers which part of the operation, and confirm the current status of the specific residence being offered.