Outpatient addiction treatment only takes up part of the day. Filling the remaining hours while not relapsing can be hard. A men’s sober living home called RCVRY House opened in Omaha to cover those hours. It joins other models throughout the state of Nebraska to give guys in outpatient programs a place to live while they wrap up treatment.
Aaron Barnes runs the home. He has been sober for 10+ years and started a nationwide recovery coaching service called Sober Coaching back in 2017. The idea for RCVRY House came after he saw local outpatient centers sending clients back to home conditions that undermined their care.
“When you leave there [outpatient care], you either have to go back to your house, your parents house, an apartment. And the living environment can have a huge impact on your ability to thrive in the outpatient.”
RCVRY House Works
Up to eight men live at the home at a time alongside a live-in manager who’s also in recovery. Residents attend outpatient programming, join group workouts five days a week, go to several evening recovery meetings each week and complete a weekly volunteer project. When they’re not in treatment or house programming, residents must work or attend school part time.
Residents pay $2,500 each month to cover food, transportation to and from treatment and individual recovery coaching from a certified recovery coach. The program is private pay because insurance doesn’t cover sober living. There’s a small number of scholarships for men who qualify.
Local outpatient providers want to work with him because the arrangement helps ensure their patients actually get to treatment and have support for the rest of the day.
Stable Housing Matters in Outpatient Care
Unstable housing can quietly undo inpatient or outpatient treatment, especially in rural areas where care is limited. But eligibility often has gaps that some folks fall in.
Sober living homes sit in a regulatory gray zone. Nebraska doesn’t license or regulate them. The state only requires a license when a facility supervises residents’ personal care or daily living needs, so homes like RCVRY House are classified as exempt residential self-help programs.
The city of Omaha holds RCVRY House to its own rules under a zoning category called Small Group Living Disabled. Barnes qualified for this category and is now working toward full accreditation via the National Alliance for Recovery Residences.
Local Resources & Next Steps
Step-down housing like this fills a real gap in addiction treatment options, but $2,500/month in private pay puts it out of reach for many. If cost is a barrier, ask about scholarship spots, state-funded programs and facilities that accept Medicaid.
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