How Connect works

Connect is part of Sobriety Hub, the software sober living operators use to run their homes: who lives where, which beds are taken, payments, and the records kept when a resident moves in or leaves. The listings on Connect are published from inside that software by the organizations themselves.

Nothing here is copied from other websites, bought from a data broker, or compiled from public records. That is what first-party data means on this site: each fact comes from the organization it describes. Two kinds of fact go a step further. Open beds and outcomes are not typed in for the listing at all; they are calculated from the operator's day-to-day records.

First-party data also keeps listings current. Sober living homes open, close and change hands often, so directories built by scraping listings from around the web go out of date almost as soon as they are made, and keep showing homes that have closed. A listing on Connect is published from the same software the organization uses to run the home: when the organization archives or removes the home there, the listing comes off Connect, and open beds are recalculated from the records it keeps every day.

Being on Connect also says something about an operator. Every home here is run by an organization that has chosen to manage it with dedicated software, keeping its residents' records and beds in one place. That is an investment in organization, compliance and transparency that not every operator makes.

Only an organization that uses Sobriety Hub can list a home, and only staff it has given permission to manage its Connect profile can publish or change one. The operator supplies the description, photos, pricing, who the home serves, recovery pathways, payment options, amenities, services and house rules.

Sobriety Hub may review a new organization's account before its first listing goes live. That review concerns the organization's account. It is not an inspection of its homes. Sobriety Hub does not own, operate, license, certify or inspect the homes, and does not check an operator's description, pricing or claims before they appear. See the disclaimer.

Each operator chooses whether to show availability. When it is shown, the number of open beds is calculated, not entered:

open beds = the home's capacity − residents currently living there − beds being held for someone

• “No beds open” means that calculation came to zero.
• No availability shown means the operator does not publish it. It does not mean the home is full.
• Changes to the count can take some time to show here, so it may be out of date. Confirm with the home before making plans.

Outcomes are figures such as the share of residents who were sober when they left. They are off unless an operator turns them on, one outcome at a time, and an operator that has never opted in publishes none. An operator can choose which outcomes to show, but cannot type in or edit a figure: Sobriety Hub calculates each one from the organization's records.

The figures build up through ordinary use of the software, one resident at a time: each comes from the move-in and discharge records an operator keeps for every resident. No one types in a figure such as “91% sober”, and changing one would mean changing the records of the residents behind it.

An outcome is shown only when it is based on at least 11 stays that ended in the last 12 months. The figures are updated when each quarter ends, so a stay that ends during a quarter is counted once that quarter is over.

What each outcome measures

Sober at discharge

Of the stays where the operator recorded whether the resident was sober when they left, the share recorded as sober.

Completed the program

Of the stays that have a discharge record, the share whose discharge type is “Program completed”.

Average length of stay

The average number of days between move-in and move-out, across the stays that ended in the last 12 months.

Stayed 90 days or longer

Of the stays that ended in the last 12 months, the share that lasted 90 days or longer.

Employed or in school at discharge

Of the stays where an employment status was recorded at discharge, the share recorded as employed full-time, part-time or self-employed, or as a student. Residents recorded as retired, or with no response, are left out of both numbers.

Moved on to stable housing

Of the stays where the operator recorded where the resident was going next, the share who moved to independent housing, to family or friends, or to another recovery residence.

These figures are not independently audited. They are only as complete as the discharge information an operator records, and Sobriety Hub does not verify those records. What they do share is method: every organization's outcomes are collected the same way, from the same kinds of records and with the same definitions, so a figure means the same thing on every listing and can be compared like for like. Homes do serve different people in different circumstances, though, so a higher or lower figure is not, on its own, a measure of which home is better.

People living in a sober living home are entitled to privacy, so Connect does not publish the street address an operator has on file. Each home is placed on the map at a point moved up to about half a mile from where it really is, and the address itself is never sent to this site.

A listing shows its city, state and ZIP code. Distances such as “about 3 miles away” are measured to that approximate point, which is why they are rounded. The name, description and photos are the operator's own, and may say more about where a home is. For an exact address, contact the home.

• Search. You can search by city, state or ZIP code, or by the name of a home or organization. Anything else is matched against the text of the listings.
• Filters. A filter such as “MAT/MAR friendly” or “Pool” shows homes whose operator has stated it. A home that has not filled in that detail will not appear under the filter, even if it would qualify. An option appears in the Filters menu only when at least one home has stated it.
• Order. When a search is measured from somewhere, such as your location or a ZIP code, homes are listed nearest first. Otherwise homes reporting open beds come first, followed by the closest matches when you have searched for a word or phrase, or else in an order that is reshuffled every day, so that no home stays at the top.
• No paid placement. Operators cannot pay to appear higher in a list, and there are no sponsored listings.

• A question about a home, such as its availability, price, rules or address: contact the home. A listing has an Apply link where the operator has set up an application form, and the organization's page links to its website where one is provided.
• Something wrong with a listing: each operator controls what its own listing says, so corrections are made by the operator. Contact the home or the organization that runs it.
• You operate a home and use Sobriety Hub: publish and edit your listing from the Connect tab of your dashboard. If you do not use Sobriety Hub yet, see sobrietyhub.com.