The Micah Project

About The Micah Project

The Micah Project is a non-profit sober living operator in Janesville, Wisconsin, providing recovery housing for women in Rock County. It grew out of a family's own loss, and it has been registered with the state's recovery residence registry since December 2022, which makes it one of the longer-standing registered providers in southern Wisconsin.

A Non-Profit Recovery Housing Provider in Rock County

Non-profit status changes the incentives behind a recovery residence. There is no owner taking a return on the beds, fees are set to cover the house, and no one is pricing them against the market, and the organization answers to a board. The Micah Project describes its work as the transitional step between treatment and independence in the community, which is a narrower claim than most operators make and a more honest one. It is housing with support attached, and the clinical work happens elsewhere in Janesville.

Peer Support as the Operating Model

The staffing model is the substance of what this operator offers. Team members are themselves in recovery and are trained as Recovery Coaches and Peer Support Specialists, and everyone on the treatment team is trained in the use of Narcan. Peer support is a different thing from clinical supervision: people who have been through the first ninety days making the daily judgment calls about a resident who is struggling, with the credibility that comes from having been on the other side of that conversation.

Serving Women in Recovery in Janesville

The operator houses women only. In a county where most recovery beds are mixed or male, that restriction settles the questions a woman leaving treatment asks first about a house: who else lives there, who is in the bathroom down the hall, and whether the house rules were written with her in mind. Janesville is the seat of Rock County and its largest city, so the courthouse, the outpatient providers, the technical college and the employers a resident needs are all inside the same city as the housing.

Public Record Behind This Sober Living Operator

Wisconsin requires no license and no certification to run a recovery residence, so the public record on any operator here is thin by design. What exists for this one is a registration filed with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services under 2019 Wisconsin Act 120, listing the county, the city, the named contact, the capacity of nine residents and the acceptance of residents on medication for opioid use disorder. Registration is voluntary and self-attested, and the state does not inspect behind it. A separate voluntary certification exists through the Wisconsin Association of Sober Housing, the state's affiliate of the national recovery residence alliance, which adds an ethics code and an external complaint route.

Reaching This Janesville Recovery Housing Provider

Applications go through the organization. Because it is a non-profit run on a peer model, the useful questions are about how the program actually operates day to day: what a resident is expected to be doing during working hours, how long a stay typically runs, whether a bed can be held during a treatment episode, what a relapse triggers, and whether the staff person a resident deals with is the one who decides. Wisconsin does not publish street addresses for recovery residences, so the address is arranged with the operator once a placement is agreed.