Recovery Alive Inc.

About Recovery Alive Inc.

Recovery Alive Inc. is a sober living operator providing certified recovery housing in Deatsville, Alabama, in Elmore County. The Christ-centered nonprofit runs separate men's and women's residences of six beds each, certified at Level I by the Alabama Alliance for Recovery Residences.

A Christ-Centered Recovery Housing Provider

Recovery Alive describes itself as a Christ-centered nonprofit committed to inspiring community revival through personal recovery, and it frames its housing as a place where residents grow in accountability, community and spiritual transformation while building a foundation for lifelong recovery. Discipleship is part of the offer and the operator says so up front. Applicants looking for a secular residence should look elsewhere. Applicants who want faith at the center will find the program organized around it.

Peer-Run Sober Living at Level I

The operator's Alabama housing is certified at Level I, the peer-run tier, and the Alabama Alliance for Recovery Residences is among the few NARR affiliates that publishes a level for every residence it lists. Level I means no paid staff living in the house. Residents govern themselves under written rules, a house leader carries day-to-day authority, and peer accountability and drug screening do the work supervision does elsewhere. It is the lightest model in recovery housing. It suits someone with sobriety behind him and a job to protect, and it is the wrong fit for someone leaving detox this week.

Men's and Women's Recovery Homes Under One Operator

The operator maintains separate men's and women's housing of six beds each. Six is small, and small houses run on personality. A resident is known from the first day, cannot coast, and gets a degree of attention no large program can match. The trade is availability. Twelve beds across two households turn over slowly, so anyone with a discharge date should apply well ahead of needing the room.

An Out-of-State Nonprofit Working in the River Region

Recovery Alive Inc. keeps its administrative base in North Carolina and operates its certified Alabama housing in Deatsville. Applicants should establish early who runs the house day to day, who answers a call from Alabama, and how decisions about admission and discharge get made. A distant head office is workable when local authority is clear, and it is a problem when it is not. Certification obliges the operator to have those lines and its complaint process written down.

Recovery Housing Between Montgomery and Wetumpka

Deatsville sits in western Elmore County, north of Montgomery and west of Wetumpka, the county seat. The River Region works as one market. Montgomery holds the state offices, the hospitals, the federal and circuit courts and most outpatient providers, and Prattville and Millbrook fill the space between. Certified recovery housing in Elmore County is thin, and an operator here places residents close to Montgomery's services while keeping them out of the city.