Starts with Love Foundation

About Starts with Love Foundation

Starts With Love Foundation is a nonprofit operator in Gilbert, Arizona, running certified recovery and transitional housing in Maricopa County under a mission of ending homelessness one person at a time.

A Gilbert Nonprofit Housing Operator

Registered as a 501(c)(3), Starts With Love Foundation pairs housing with financial coaching, job search assistance and life skills training. The foundation's stated focus includes people transitioning out of homelessness and out of foster care alongside people in recovery, which makes its housing broader in mission than a single-purpose sober living company while still meeting Arizona's certification standard for recovery residences.

Certified Recovery Housing in Maricopa County

The foundation's East Valley housing carries Level 2 certification from the Arizona Recovery Housing Association, the state's NARR affiliate. That credential requires a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules, a documented relapse and discharge policy, and an outside complaint process, all of it verifiable independent of a mapped street address, which Arizona does not require recovery residences to publish.

A Three-Step Intake Process

Starts With Love Foundation moves prospective residents through an online application, an individualized assessment and a personalized support plan before move-in. That structure gives the foundation a documented basis for matching someone to housing rather than filling a bed on a first-come basis.

Serving Gilbert and the East Valley

Gilbert sits within Maricopa County's East Valley, a corridor that includes Chandler, Mesa and Tempe and carries a large share of the county's employment and outpatient treatment capacity. A foundation based here can draw on that regional infrastructure while keeping its housing inside one community.

Reaching Starts With Love Foundation

The foundation operates from Gilbert with an administrative office in Las Vegas, Nevada. Prospective residents, families and referring providers can start the intake process directly, and should ask how the foundation's recovery-specific certification interacts with its broader transitional housing work.