Wishope Inc.

About Wishope Inc.

WisHope Inc. is a sober living operator in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and a peer-run recovery community organization working across the southern half of the state. Founded in 2016 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, it runs recovery housing alongside peer coaching, drop-in centers and training, and it operates three registered recovery homes in Waukesha.

A Peer-Run Wisconsin Recovery Housing Provider

Project WisHope was built by people in recovery to serve Wisconsin's recovery community with resources, education, advocacy and peer support. Its work reaches Milwaukee, Waukesha, Sauk, Waupaca and Rock counties, with a statewide peer support line running around the clock. Housing is one arm of that, and the peer-run structure is the distinguishing fact about this sober living operator: the people setting admissions and house policy have been through the same system, which shows up in the organization's positions on medication and on second chances after a relapse.

Sober Living Homes in Waukesha

Three registered recovery residences operate under the WisHope Inc. name, all of them in Waukesha:

• The Farm, with eight beds.
• The Lois House, with eight beds, registered with the state since 2021.
• The Recovery Village, a large residence with a registered capacity of seventy.

The range across those three is unusual for one provider. A resident can be placed in a small household or in a program-scale residence within the same city and the same organization, and can move between them as the amount of structure they need changes.

Housing Scholarships From This Sober Living Operator

The organization reports that more than 1,700 people have participated in its recovery housing program and that 160 have received scholarships toward the cost of housing. Money is where most placements fail. A person leaving jail or detox usually has no first week's fee and no deposit, and the majority of recovery housing operators are small businesses with nothing to give. A nonprofit carrying a scholarship line is one of the few answers to that problem in Wisconsin, and it is worth asking about at application.

Peer Coaching and Recovery Housing Under One Organization

Alongside the houses, WisHope Inc. runs drop-in recovery community centers, delivers a five-day peer recovery coach certification course, and provides Narcan training. For residents, the effect is that support does not end at the front door of the house. Someone struggling can reach a coach who does not live with them, use a community center that is not their bedroom, and, over time, take the coach training and end up on the other side of the same system.

State Registration Across These Recovery Homes

All three residences are listed on Wisconsin's recovery residence registry, which is the state's mechanism in place of licensure. Registering every house it runs puts the operator, the capacity and the medication policy of each address on a public record. For a nonprofit that also publishes program numbers and reports as a charity, that filing is one more place where the organization's claims can be checked against a document.

Who These Wisconsin Sober Homes Are For

The housing suits someone coming out of detox, residential treatment, jail or a county program who needs a stable address and a peer group while clinical care continues elsewhere. Anyone needing medical supervision on site is a poor match for recovery housing anywhere in the state. Residents on medication for opioid use disorder are accepted across these houses, and applications, fees and scholarship questions all go through the organization directly.