Sober Living America

About Sober Living America

Sober Living America is a sober living operator in Florida, running coed sober living homes in Jacksonville and Tampa. The nonprofit has provided recovery housing since 1994 and now operates in more than forty cities nationwide, and its two Florida programs are both built on the same apartment-style, roommate-based model.

A National Recovery Housing Provider With Florida Locations

Sober Living America is a housing organization first. It provides the apartment, the roommate structure and wraparound services around each resident's own recovery. Its two Florida programs sit on opposite coasts of the state, and both run under the same national model the organization has used since 1994.

Serving Jacksonville and Tampa

Two coed sober homes carry the Sober Living America name in Florida:

• The Jacksonville location, on San Jose Boulevard in Jacksonville, an apartment complex the organization runs as a twenty-unit residence.
• The Tampa location, in Tampa, on Florida's Gulf Coast.

Both are coed, which sets Sober Living America apart from the single-gender houses more common in Florida sober living, and both run at the same weekly rate.

Apartment-Style Housing Instead of a Single House

Instead of a detached group home, Sober Living America houses residents in shared apartment units with roommates, a structure the organization designed around constant peer support. The same-day admission policy and the $275 weekly rate apply at both Florida locations, and neither requires funds in hand at intake.

Recovery Housing Provider Services Across Both Locations

Every Sober Living America location, including both in Florida, includes licensed in-house counseling, career development support, transportation through the organization's own van fleet, and access to AA and NA meetings on site and in the surrounding community. The services travel with the housing model, so a resident moving between Jacksonville and Tampa keeps the same support structure.

Voluntary Certification for Florida Sober Homes

Recovery residences in Florida certify voluntarily through the Florida Association of Recovery Residences, and the state does not require it to operate. Anyone evaluating a Sober Living America location should ask the organization directly about its current certification status instead of assuming one way or the other.

Reaching Sober Living America in Florida

Applications to either Florida location go through Sober Living America directly. The organization advertises same-day admission and does not require payment up front to begin, and a resident who needs to move between its Jacksonville and Tampa programs stays inside the same nonprofit and the same set of services.