Clean and Sober Housing

Clean and Sober Houses offer a supportive way of living and opportunities to learn skills in a clean and sober environment.

Not going back to where a recovering addict came from may be the single most important  reason for the Clean and Sober House.  Using this cost-effective way to improve the chances of recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction may be the best way to show the community that recovery works, and that recovering addicts can become model citizens.

• Residents receive 24-hour support from peers in recovery.
  
• Learn alcohol and drug-free living skills.
  
• Share responsibility for maintaining the House
  
• Learn to manage a household
  
• Receive guidelines and training to  successfully manage a House.
  
• Have social interaction and activities.
  
  

Individuals may live in Clean and Sober House as long as they want, as long as they remain clean and sober and pay their rent.

Clean and Sober Housing Costs and Program Information

Therapeutic Communities

Therapeutic Communities (TC) are drug-free residential settings that use a hierarchical model with treatment stages that reflect increased levels of personal and social responsibility.  Peer influence, mediated through a variety of group processes, is used to help individuals learn and assimilate social norms and develop more effective social skills.

TC differ from other treatment approaches principally in their use of community, comprising treatment staff and those in recovery, as key agents of change.  TC members interact in structured and unstructured ways to influence attitudes, perceptions and behaviors associated with drug use.

Many individuals admitted to TC’s have a history of social functioning, educational/vocational skills, and positive community and family ties that have been eroded by the substance abuse.  For them, recovery involved rehabilitation -- relearning or re-establishing healthy functioning, skills and values as well as regaining physical and emotional health.  Other TC residents have never acquired functional life-styles.  For these people, the TC is usually their first exposure to orderly living.  Recovery for them involves habilitation -- learning for the first time the behavioral skills, attitudes, and values associated with socialized living.

Second Chance Triad - How it Works

 

Eligibility For Membership

To be considered for SHIP Affiliated Housing, an applicant must have a minimum of 30 days of sobriety or have completed a detoxification program, complete all pages of this application and be interviewed by a member of the SHIP staff.

Other Guidelines

• Each individual must be willing to accept house rules.
• Each individual must be able to pay his/her share of house expenses.
• Each individual must have the desire to work on his/her recovery.
• There are separate Houses for men and for women.

How to Apply For Membership
Contact  SHIP  in one of the  following ways to  request  an  application:           

Call (208) 331-0900
Fax (253) 645-4019
Email—admin@shipinc.org

Download Application for Housing (Adobe PDF)

Complete application & return to:

Supportive Housing and Innovative Partnerships
P.O. Box 8803
Boise, ID  83707

Once we receive your application we will process your application  for consideration to one of our Clean & Sober Houses within 2 weeks of when you indicated you will need housing. Individuals who are currently living in a correctional facility, your application will be processed within 2 weeks of your Tentative Parole Date (TPD) An  interview will be scheduled and you will be notified prior to the interview of the time and date.