Housing for Recovery Initiative

Summary

Recovery housing is a substance-free group home for those exiting drug and alcohol treatment. Individuals live in a recovery-focused environment with others traveling the same journey. Ohio Recovery Housing (ORH) creates and maintains standards of excellence for recovery housing in the state. Each house decides how it operates, with four different "levels" of housing available. These environments have the potential to help build a strong foundation in recovery to improve health, employment, and housing outcomes.

ORH and LEO will launch a quasi-experimental study to measure the impact of recovery housing for individuals with substance use disorders. The design relies on variation in the availability of program spots to identify effects. Invitations to join a home will come from a waitlist. As the length of the waitlist is unrelated to applicant characteristics, movement off the waitlist can be considered essentially random. The research team will compare those who receive services to those who do not.

The researchers hypothesize that those who participate in recovery housing will have improved health, employment, and housing outcomes compared to individuals who do not receive recovery housing services.

Conditions

• Substance-related Disorders
• Alcohol-related Disorders
• Housing

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Recovery housing

Recovery housing provides housing and other services to individuals who are recovering from substance-use disorders. They provide a substance-free living environment, as well as services to assist residents with life in recovery. These services include connections to employment and educational opportunities, help obtaining documentation such as a driver's license, connection to mutual aid, and assistance building life skills.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ohio Recovery Housing

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Ohio State University

  collaborator OTHER

• Adrienne Sabety

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Adrienne Sabety, PhD · University of Notre Dame

• Mary Kate Batistich, PhD · University of Notre Dame

• William Evans, PhD · University of Notre Dame

• Thomas Gregoire, PhD · Ohio State University

• Danielle Gray, MPH · Ohio Recovery Housing

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2022-04-18

Primary Completion

2026-03-31

Completion

2026-03-31