Location: Hampden and Buckley, Aurora
I’d like to welcome you to Hope House! As one of the newest and most meaningful additions to Aurora Sober Living, we are blessed to call this space our home. We understand what a gift it is to have this opportunity and we embrace the responsibility of creating a place of safety, accountability, and encouragement for women beginning their recovery journey.
Hope House is filled with women from many walks of life — some experiencing sober living for the first time, others returning to rebuild again — but we all share one purpose: to support each other in building a strong foundation for recovery. Here, we learn the power of community, accountability, and the truth that we are stronger together than we ever could be alone.
In Phase One, we follow a structured program of groups, peer coaching, daily routines, and accountability that helps us grow in discipline while supporting each other through the ups and downs of early sobriety. We lean on one another for encouragement, we celebrate each other’s victories, and we remind each other that setbacks do not define us — they are part of the process.
Hope House feels like family. We share meals, plan fun activities like crafts and movie nights, laugh together, and create genuine bonds that carry us through the hard days. We also hold each other accountable to keep our home clean, respectful, and safe — because we know that a healthy living environment reflects a healthy recovery environment.
The world can be intimidating, and starting over can feel overwhelming, but at Hope House you are never alone. You have sisters beside you, staff and peer coaches supporting you, and the Phase One structure giving you the tools to succeed. This is a place to grow, to heal, and to discover hope again.
This gave me the necessary steady home base and the confidence to further branch out into activities such as sober team sports. I soon found my free time filled with sober softball and volleyball, rediscovering my love for playing sports and being active which has proven to be not only a fantastic arena for meeting new sober individuals, but has indeed become a cornerstone in my recovery.
Gradually, I found my social anxiety slipping away around these people who were no longer nameless spectres haunting my wildest imaginations, but friends that wanted to see me do well just as much as I wished the same for them; I felt human once more. I was slowly figuring out the fact that recovery isn’t done in a bubble, and that it takes fellowship and working with others in order to work. Hope house has gone even further as to provide a recovery coach that comes to the house to work with the residents while on their journey of sobriety, acting as a wealth of resources related to recovery, a steadfast motivator for me to actually make and accomplish goals that I set, and a wellspring of experience, strength, and hope that has seen me through some of life’s tougher situations–on life’s terms.
This facet of my recovery would not be possible without their time and compassion, both of which I am extremely grateful for as they have allowed me to open up and be honest about where I am in my recovery. They have become friends that push me to attain my true potential, something I hadn’t even considered at one time.
Hope house has not only been a safe and comfortable place to live, but has also presented myself and many other women with opportunities to engage with other individuals in recovery through participation in team sports, gatherings, and meetings held around the Aurora area. In addition, it has granted myself along with others the chance to “move up” through the houses to eventually earn the position of house manager, a role that has allowed me to experience responsibility in an entirely new way, and I have seen others recognize my growth from that nervous girl who was too terrified to do anything without a substance in my system into a capable, confident, sober woman.
You Must Meet These Criteria
18+ in age.
Mentally and physically able to work. Also, volunteer, or go to school.
Able to meet the costs of housing. In addition to personal needs.
Must provide a clean UA and BA drug screening upon entry into the program.
Is not prescribed any medications that are considered controlled substances (ie. Ambien, Adderall, Xanax, etc.).
Willing and motivated to maintain participation within the sober living community.
Also, willing and motivated to participate actively in a 12-step program.
In addition, committed to participating fully in the Aurora Sober Living Program.
