Sober Living America - Tennessee

About Sober Living America - Tennessee

Sober Living America is a sober living operator working in Tennessee, with recovery housing in Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis and Nashville. It is a nonprofit that has been in addiction recovery since 1994, now houses residents in 41 cities across the South and Midwest, and maintains more than 1,800 beds. The Tennessee Alliance of Recovery Residences lists it as certified in Hamilton and Davidson counties.

A Multi State Recovery Housing Provider

The organization describes 24 years of work reuniting families and states it has helped more than 100,000 people and serves around 10,000 families a year. Its own framing is an action program: housing plus the practical apparatus to get someone back to work. Residents keep their outside prescribers, therapists and meetings, and the operator supplies the address, the roommates, the transport and the job pipeline. That division of labor is what a national footprint makes possible.

Where These Tennessee Sober Homes Are

Four Tennessee cities carry a Sober Living America location:

• Chattanooga, in Hamilton County, in the southeast corner of the state.
• Knoxville, the seat of Knox County and the hub of East Tennessee.
• Memphis, the seat of Shelby County, in the far west.
• Nashville, the state capital, in consolidated Davidson County.

The four sit in the four population centers of Tennessee's three grand divisions, which means a resident is rarely far from one and a transfer between them keeps the program identical.

Same Day Admission Into These Sober Homes

Admission is same day, no funds are required at intake, and insurance is accepted. Very little recovery housing in Tennessee will take a person on the day they ask, and the timing is the point: the organization states its belief that someone asking for help should get it that day. The published program fee is $275 a week, listed as $1,975 a month for its Pinnacle Program, with fees subject to change.

TN-ARR Certification of the Tennessee Recovery Housing

Tennessee requires recovery residences to be certified, and the Tennessee Alliance of Recovery Residences is the affiliate that certifies them. The directory records Sober Living America as a certified organization in Hamilton County and in Davidson County, the latter serving both men and women. Certification is granted at the residence and organization level, so anyone comparing options should confirm the specific location they are applying to. An operator carrying it has accepted a published ethics code, written fee and rule disclosure, and a complaint process that runs outside its own houses.

Coed Sober Living and the Apartment Model

The housing is apartment style with roommates, and the Tennessee locations run coed. Both choices are unusual in this state, where the default is a single family house split by gender. The operator argues that roommates are the mechanism of recovery and that apartment living reads less like an institution, and residents in its published testimonials describe exactly that contrast. For a couple in recovery or someone who wants a mixed household, the coed model narrows a long search considerably.

How This Sober Living Operator Is Funded

Resident fees cover operating costs, and the organization states that donations therefore go entirely to opening new houses instead of administration. It also runs a prevention education arm and reports having reached 30,000 students. For a prospective resident the relevant consequence is that the weekly fee is the business model, so it is worth asking precisely what that fee covers and what is billed separately.

Who These Tennessee Sober Homes Suit

Someone leaving detox, residential treatment or incarceration who needs a bed immediately, has no money in hand, and is willing to work and share a room. Career development, licensed in house counseling, transportation by van, life skills classes, relapse prevention and a schedule of AA and NA meetings on and off site are all part of the program. Anyone requiring clinical supervision on site should be looking at a licensed treatment facility instead.