Safe Harbor Recovery Homes

About Safe Harbor Recovery Homes

Safe Harbor Recovery Homes is a sober living operator in Norton, Ohio, providing recovery housing in Summit County and in Cleveland. It is an Ohio nonprofit, managed by We Only Have Today LLC and co-founded by Mark Saffran and David Wells, and it offers short-term and long-term stays regardless of a resident's economic situation.

Two Sober Living Locations in Northeast Ohio

The organization houses residents at two locations:

• Safe Harbor Norton, on Greenwich Road in Norton, Summit County, a campus made up of a single-family home, a duplex, a cottage and a ten-unit former motel.
• Safe Harbor Cleveland, a Professionals Track program housing residents near the Cleveland Clinic's main campus in Cuyahoga County.

The two serve different populations with the same nonprofit behind them.

A Nonprofit Recovery Housing Provider

Funding comes from donations, grants, loans and rent payments. That structure is the reason the organization can state it houses people regardless of economic situation, and it is the most consequential fact about the operator. In recovery housing, the money up front decides who gets in, and a nonprofit willing to carry a resident is making a different bet than a landlord filling beds.

Structure Across These Sober Homes

The Norton campus runs a scheduled day. Residents rise at seven for meditation and prayer, complete chores and breakfast, then travel by van to their recovery programs, returning in the afternoon for two peer support meetings and heading out in the evening to twelve-step meetings in surrounding communities. A resident manager lives on site with two or three peer supervisors. The Cleveland program is built around a working professional's schedule, a different arrangement for a different resident.

Serving Summit and Cuyahoga Counties

Norton sits at the southwest corner of Summit County, near Barberton and Wadsworth, with Akron and its treatment system up Route 21. Cleveland's east side, where the second program is located, holds the largest concentration of medical employment and treatment capacity in the state. Between them the operator covers the two counties carrying most of northeast Ohio's recovery housing demand.

Certification and Ohio Sober Living Standards

Ohio certifies recovery residences address by address through Ohio Recovery Housing, publishing each one at the Peer-Run, Managed or Supervised level. Anyone evaluating a multi-site operator should ask which specific addresses carry certification, since it does not transfer from one property to another.

Reaching This Northeast Ohio Sober Living Operator

Inquiries go to the organization, which handles admission for both locations. Operator-level questions: how long it has housed residents in Ohio, what a stay costs and what happens if a resident cannot pay, how the short-term and long-term tracks differ, whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted, and how a complaint escalates past on-site staff. A nonprofit that admits people without money up front should be equally clear about what it expects afterward.