Sangha, Inc.

About Sangha, Inc.

Sangha, Inc. is a sober living operator in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in Tulsa County, running four certified men's recovery residences across the city. It is a community-based nonprofit and describes itself as a men's recovery community, providing housing, structure and a route back into ordinary civic life.

A Tulsa Recovery Housing Provider for Men

Sangha houses men only, and it is direct about what that buys. Residents get more than a safe place to sleep: the organization supplies the resources, the peer structure and the daily expectations that carry someone through the first year. Clinical care comes from providers elsewhere in the city, and the operator's job is to keep the houses sound, the rules consistent and the community intact from one address to the next.

Four Sober Homes Across Tulsa

Four certified residences carry the Sangha name, all in Tulsa and all certified at Level 2:

• Sangha Metro, near 71st Street and Riverside Drive, a modified duplex with eleven beds.
• Sangha South, a three-bedroom house in south Tulsa with eight beds.
• Sangha Xanthus, in the Kendall-Whittier neighborhood near downtown, with six beds.
• Sangha Olympia, on the west side of the city, with seven beds.

The four sit in different parts of one city, which gives a resident real choice about which side of the river he lives on while keeping every option inside the same county, the same transit system and the same set of outpatient providers.

Housing Quality in These Recovery Homes

Sangha publishes what its houses contain, and the specifics are unusual for recovery housing. Full-size beds with pillow-top mattresses, new furniture, closet and pantry space, full cable and high-speed internet, fully stocked kitchens, large tables for family-style dinners, updated bathrooms and a wraparound porch on one house. One resident's published account describes it as the cleanest sober living house he looked at. Housing quality is a retention tool. Men leave houses that feel like institutions.

Certification Across This Sober Living Operator's Portfolio

All four residences hold current certification with the Oklahoma Alliance for Recovery Resources at Level 2, the monitored tier. Certification is granted house by house and is voluntary in Oklahoma, so anyone comparing options should confirm the specific address they are applying to. An operator holding it across every house has accepted a published code of ethics and an outside complaint process for the whole organization.

Service Work and Community Involvement

Sangha is a community-based nonprofit focused on making Tulsa a stronger city, and residents take part in team building activities, life skills work and service to others as part of the program. Its support base includes a long list of Tulsa foundations, health systems and corporate donors. That funding structure is why the organization can hold housing standards above what a resident's fee alone would buy.

One Application Across Four Tulsa Sober Houses

Applications go through Sangha's own admission application, and a man is considered across the group. If the fit turns out wrong after move-in, a move is a conversation with an organization that already knows him, and the expectations stay the same at every address. The executive director is named publicly, which is the level of accessibility a small nonprofit can offer and a large program cannot.