Recovery Housing
Recovery housing offers sober, safe, healthy living environments centered on peer support and connections that promote sustained recovery from substance use. Recovery housing is also known as recovery residences, sober homes, or sober living.
As recovery housing receives increased attention from federal, state, and community stakeholders, it is essential that recovery supports for individuals and families present promising approaches to extend the acute care treatment model and support long-term recovery.
Currently, there is no national estimate of recovery housing resources or scale of demand. However, with large numbers of people affected by substance use nationwide, demand for recovery housing is clearly outpacing availability. Even when recovery housing is available, the type of home, level of support, quality of services and support, and knowledge and skills of peer and clinical staff varies significantly.
C4 Innovations supports local, state, and national efforts to advance the availability and quality of recovery housing. We work with recovery housing stakeholders to assess recovery housing capacity, promote quality standards, and raise awareness of the importance of recovery housing as an option within housing and service continuums.
We partnered with colleagues at the National Alliance for Recovery Residences and National Council for Behavioral Health to develop "Helping Recovery Residences Adapt to Support People with Medication-Assisted Recovery" (PDF). This document provides guidance, key considerations, and tips and tools for recovery residence operators that are supporting or want to support individuals who choose medication-assisted recovery.
We Can Help You
- Assess and estimate recovery housing capacity
- Promote recovery housing within housing and service continuums
- Support residences and other recovery stakeholders to build capacity for starting, improving, and sustaining recovery housing
- Build workforce capacity within recovery residences
- Understand how residents using medication-assisted treatment (MAT)/medication-assisted recovery (MAR) can access and be supported in recovery housing
- Address stigma as it relates to serving people with substance use disorders
- Collaborate with community partners and funding sources
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Our Experts
Example of Our Work
Recovery Housing in Ohio: 2021 Environmental Scan
In collaboration with Ohio Recovery Housing and Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, C4 staff conducted an environmental scan of recovery housing in Ohio. Together we developed recommendations in response to our findings in the areas of access and referrals, equity, quality and certification, recovery supports, medication-assisted treatment, COVID-19 pandemic, recovery housing policy, and an Ohio Recovery Housing outcomes tool. Read an overview of our findings and the full report. Learn more about our findings and recommendations specific to equity and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Learn More
- Skilled Management and Supervision Essentials: online course starts April 9, 2024
- Essentials of Person-Centered Case Management: starts May 7
- Recovery Housing in Ohio: 2021 Environmental Scan—in collaboration with Ohio Recovery Housing and Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
- Perspectives from Recovery Residences: Adapting for MAT and Other Recovery Pathways—webinar recording (64:11 minutes)
- Helping Recovery Residences Adapt to Support People with Medication-Assisted Recovery, a guide (PDF)
- Equity and Recovery
- Substance Use and Mental Health Recovery Supports
- Integrating and Supervising Peer Workers
- Medication-Assisted Treatment/Medication-Assisted Recovery
- Stigma and Recovery
- Criminal Justice System Reform & Re-Entry Supports
- Recovery-Oriented Systems
- Opioid Overdose Prevention and Support
- Pregnancy and Recovery
- Substance Use Prevention and Early Intervention
- Equity and Homelessness
- Equitable Coordinated Entry Systems
- Housing Solutions
- PATH and Street Outreach
- Housing First
Learn more about our expertise and training and technical assistance approaches and offerings.