Starting January 1, 2025 all recovery homes in Ohio will need to be appropriately certified in order to be on the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS) registry of recovery housing residences. 

 

Only homes on this registry will be able to receive funding designated for recovery housing, referrals, or to advertise that they are recovery housing, sober living or other drug and alcohol-free housing for people with substance use disorders.  

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Certification by the state affiliation of the National Alliance of Recovery Residences (NARR) has been listed as one of the entities that the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services can choose to accept as appropriate certification.  Ohio Recovery Housing is the state affiliate of NARR in Ohio.  State affiliates have wide discretion over the review processes that they use to measure NARR standards implementation.  

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The ORH board has reviewed and updated ORH's measures of the national standards and has implemented significant changes to ensure that ORH is meeting the expectations of the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services as well as other critical stakeholders.

 

The final documentation and complete lists of measures are below are are effective for all applications, new and recertifications, received starting April 1, 2024.  

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All Organizations will be required to sign the following documents to provide their assurances and agree to participate in the ORH Certification Review Process 

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ORH Assurances - this is a document of the assurances that each organization will need to sign and provide attestation of when applying for ORH certification.

ORH Agreement - this is a agreement that organizations must sign in order to apply for certification 

NARR Code of Ethics - all individuals within your organization who interact with residents should read and sign the Code of Ethics.  ORH requires that you keep all of the documents on file, but only requires that one document for the Director be submitted with the application.   

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The following are the measures based on the Level if Support.  

Measures for Level I only organizations - this is a list of measures for organizations that operate ONLY Level I homes

Measures for Level II only organizations - this is a list of measures for organizations that operate ONLY Level II homes 

Measures for Level III only organizations - this is a list of measures for organizations that operate ONLY Level III homes

Measures for Organizations that operate more than one level of support - this is a list of measures for organizations that have multiple properties that are at different levels. 

Measures for homes that allow children to live with their parents - these are additional measures for homes that allow children to live with their parents.  These do not apply to adult only homes, or to homes where children visit, but do not live with their parents.  

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ORH has also updated our policy regarding extensions.  See below for information regarding extensions.

Extensions - this is ORH's policy on extensions 

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