Sober Living America

About Sober Living America

Sober Living America is a sober living operator in Indianapolis, Indiana, running peer-based recovery housing across Marion County since 1994. The nonprofit now operates in forty-one cities nationwide, housing more than eighteen hundred people at a time across its full network.

A National Recovery Housing Operator with an Indianapolis Program

Sober Living America is a housing and career-development operator. Its model pairs apartment-style peer housing with recovery education and career development, and residents keep their own outside providers for clinical care while the organization focuses on housing, structure and peer accountability.

Apartment-Style Housing Instead of a Single Group Home

Where many sober living operators run one or two group houses, Sober Living America places residents in apartment-style units with roommates, an approach it applies the same way in Indianapolis as in its other cities. The organization reports helping more than one hundred thousand people since its founding in 1994.

Career Development and Transportation as Part of the Program

Sober Living America builds career development directly into its housing program, connecting residents with employers for real work experience, and it runs its own transportation to get residents to work, meetings and appointments without depending on a car of their own. The organization publishes a program fee of $275 a week for its Indianapolis housing.

Serving Indianapolis and Marion County

Indianapolis is the state capital and the seat of Marion County, and Sober Living America's presence there gives residents access to a large concentration of employers, outpatient treatment and twelve-step meetings inside one metro area. Admission does not depend on funds up front, and the organization advertises same-day admission for people who need housing immediately.

Reaching Sober Living America in Indianapolis

Applications and intake go directly through the organization, since Sober Living America does not publish individual house locations. The questions worth asking of a national operator cover consistency: how fees and deposits are documented, whether local staff coordinate with outside treatment providers, and how a resident is placed with roommates.