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About The RJM House

The RJM House is a sober living operator in Manchester, New Hampshire, providing men's recovery housing in Hillsborough County. It was founded by people in recovery from substance use disorder, and it runs as a peer community on Manchester's East Side.

A Peer Founded Manchester Sober Living Operator

The organization's own account of itself is short and it is the most useful thing on the record: it was started by people who had been through substance use disorder, to provide a supportive environment for growth in recovery. An operator built that way is answerable in a particular direction. The person writing the house rules has generally lived under a version of them, and the standard the house is held to is one the founders would have wanted for themselves. Clinical care is not part of the offer, and residents keep their own counselors, prescribers and meetings.

Public Records Behind This Recovery Housing Provider

New Hampshire does not license recovery residences the way it licenses clinical facilities, so an applicant evaluating a New Hampshire sober living operator is working from a short set of public records:

1. Certification through the New Hampshire Partnership for Recovery Residences, the sole agency the state designates to certify recovery residences, which binds a house to a code of ethics, written fee and rule disclosure, a written relapse and discharge policy, and an external complaint process.
2. Listing on the state's Voluntary Recovery House Registry, which admits only certified residences and is the only list from which state and federally funded programs may refer.

Certification in New Hampshire is voluntary, and a great many houses that are working well have never sought it. An operator that has is simply easier to check from outside, and an applicant should ask directly where an operator stands on both.

Where This Manchester Sober Living Operator Works

The footprint is Manchester, the largest city in New Hampshire and the seat of Hillsborough County. That location carries the services early recovery leans on: Catholic Medical Center and Elliot Hospital, the county superior court, Manchester Community College, the state's densest bus network and a cluster of outpatient providers along the Elm Street corridor. Recovery housing in southern New Hampshire concentrates here and in Nashua, and someone looking for a men's sober house in the region is looking at these two cities first.

Reaching This Recovery Housing Provider in Manchester

Applications go directly to the operator. The questions worth asking at operator level are about tenure and process: how long it has housed men in Manchester, whether it takes referrals from treatment providers, the drug court and hospital discharge planners, how fees and deposits are documented and refunded, and what happens after a relapse. In a peer run operation the answers come from the people who set them.