Sanctuary House

About Sanctuary House

Sanctuary House is a sober living operator serving the greater Toms River, New Jersey area, providing licensed recovery housing for men in Ocean County.

A Men's Recovery Housing Provider in Ocean County

Sanctuary House runs a cooperative sober living model built on accountability, peer support and shared responsibility, and it serves men exclusively. Residents share in the day-to-day work of running the household, which the operator frames as part of the transition from treatment toward independent living, not an inconvenience layered on top of recovery.

Licensing Instead of Certification

New Jersey does not certify recovery residences, so a Cooperative Sober Living Residence license from the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, issued under N.J.A.C. 5:27, is the credential that applies here. It is the record a family can check before a resident applies, in a state with no private certifying body.

Serving the Greater Toms River Area

Toms River is both a township and the seat of Ocean County, and Sanctuary House positions itself around that base, drawing residents from across the surrounding shore towns as well as the township itself. Ocean County holds a substantial share of New Jersey's licensed Cooperative Sober Living Residences, concentrated in and around Toms River.

The Cooperative Model in Practice

Sanctuary House expects residents to take on shared responsibility for the house instead of having every task staffed for them, an approach the operator describes as building toward independent living. That structure suits someone ready to be accountable to housemates as much as to supervisory staff.

Reaching Sanctuary House

Applications go directly to the operator. Worth asking: how responsibilities are divided among residents, what the weekly cost covers, how long residents typically stay, and how a relapse or a conflict between housemates gets handled.