Zen Mountain Sober Living

About Zen Mountain Sober Living

Zen Mountain Sober Living is a sober living operator in Colorado, running certified women's recovery homes across Aurora, Centennial and the Denver Tech Center area. Its residences are listed in the state's certified recovery residence directory, and its portfolio is women-only.

A Denver Metro Recovery Housing Provider

This is a housing organization. The residences supply structure, peer accountability and an address a woman can hold for a year, and clinical care comes from outpatient providers elsewhere in the metro. Residents keep their own prescribers and therapists. What the operator controls is the condition of the houses, the consistency of the rules from one address to the next, and how quickly a bed can be found when a woman needs one.

Women's Sober Homes Across the South Metro

Several residences carry the Zen Mountain name:

• Phillips House, in Aurora, opened in March 2018 and the largest in the portfolio.
• Jamison House, in Centennial, opened in September 2018 and the most social of the group.
• Charles House, near the Denver Tech Center, with private rooms and light rail access.
• Miller House, in Aurora, recently furnished and built around an outdoor firepit.
• Allison House, in Aurora, with a renovated kitchen and an office loft.
• Monroe House, in Aurora.

The cluster is tight, running from Aurora through Centennial to the Tech Center. That has a practical effect: moving between houses leaves a resident's job, bus routes and outpatient provider untouched.

Serving Women in Recovery

Every residence in this network serves women, and the operator writes house culture accordingly. It is candid that the houses differ. One runs younger and more social, one is larger and quieter, one is oriented toward residents who need private space. A woman applying is matched to a household as much as to an address, and the operator's willingness to describe the difference is more useful than a brochure that says every house is the same.

Certification Across These Colorado Recovery Residences

Colorado certifies recovery residences through ORH-CO, the certifying body approved by the state Behavioral Health Administration and the Colorado affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. Zen Mountain's houses are certified individually in that directory, which is the correct way to read it: the certificate belongs to the residence. Certification obliges written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, a code of ethics, and an external complaint process. Under House Bill 19-1009, that certification is what allows a residence to take state referrals and funding.

Medication Supported Recovery Homes

The state directory records this operator as supporting medication-assisted treatment and as offering rent subsidy. Programming is not faith-based, and family housing is not part of the model. Those four facts answer most of the screening questions a referral source asks before it sends anyone.

One Application Across Several Sober Houses

Applications go to the operator instead of to an individual house, which is the practical case for choosing a multi-house provider. A woman is considered against every open bed in the network, and a transfer later is a conversation with people who already know her. Fees and expectations stay the same across the addresses, so a move changes the housemates and the commute and nothing else.