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ABH Sober Living is provided in three homes located in southeastern Michigan. Each home is spacious, well maintained, and landscaped. Two homes were designed for men – Weber House and Josh House; one home for women – Smith House

The Weber House, designed for up to 6 adult males, is a spacious 3500 square foot home located in Rochester Hills. The outside is landscaped with many perennials, flowering shrubs and fruit trees. The inside is an open floor plan, spacious room, neutral décor, including a great room with gas fireplace, spacious kitchen, four bedrooms (2 large/2 medium), two bathrooms, first floor laundry, lower level family room, walk-out basement, and a sauna.



This home is located in a wonderful area – near I-75, M-59, downtown Rochester, Meadowbrook, Oakland University and Oakland Community College. The Village of Rochester Hills shopping center is within walking distance.

The Smith House, designed for up to 7 women, is located in Shelby Township deep within a residential subdivision, at the end of a cul-de-sac. The large lot is surrounded by forest and creates the aura of northern Michigan living. This 3100 square foot home has 5 bedrooms (4 up, 1 down) and 2 full and 2 half baths. Professionally decorated, the modern living environment on the first floor offers a comfortably large living room with fireplace, open kitchen floor plan and separate dining and living rooms. The backyard is semi-private with a large patio for relaxing and reflection. Shops, restaurants, and Stony Creek Metro Park are within walking distance.

The Josh House, designed for up to 5 men, is located in Sterling Heights. This home is a spacious, 3000 square foot, 6 bedroom (4 large/2 medium), 3 full bathroom farmhouse built on a beautifully wooded and spacious 1.06 acre lot.



The combination kitchen-dining-great room with fireplace occupies 1,000 square feet of the first floor. The four bedrooms upstairs offer privacy, the first floor has a private room for family visits. Near M-59, 696, M-53, two large shopping malls, and Macomb Community College.

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Many persons admitted to Sober Living homes have a history of social functioning, education/vocational skills, and positive community and family ties that have been eroded by their substance abuse or dependency. For them, recovery involves relearning or reestablishing healthy functioning, skills, and values as well as regaining physical and emotional health. Some persons do not have a reference point of health, as disorder and dysfunction occur very early in life. Recovery for them involves learning for the first time skills, attitudes, and values associated with socialized living and physical and emotional health.

Recovery, living a sober lifestyle, often requires change in several life domains. ABH network of Sober Living homes are designed to provide persons with high quality, long-term supportive living and network of resources designed to nurture stability, personal growth, and more self-determined, independent, and deliberate life. To facilitate change, Sober Living provides an array of therapeutic and social resources:

• Evaluation and assessment. Includes diagnostic evaluation, personality, and neuropsychological testing. After evaluation and assessment, results are discussed with the person and family (when agreed).
• Community and peer influences. Peer influence, mediated through a variety of group processes, is used to help persons learn and assimilate social norms and develop social responsibility and more effective social skills.
• Self-help. Self-help implies that the persons are the main contributors to the change process. “Mutual self-help” means that persons also assume partial responsibility for the recovery of their peers, an important aspect of a person’s own success.
• Clinical services. Persons shall have access to individual and family therapy, group therapy, psychiatry, and addiction medicine. All professionals are licensed and credentials.
• Linking and coordinating. Assistance in finding work, coordinating enrollment into school or college, completing disability paperwork, etc.
• Health and fitness. Persons shall have access to health and fitness services – provided by a Certified Personal Health and Fitness Trainer.

Adults (18 years and older) with history of substance abuse, substance dependency, or dual diagnoses (mental illness and substance use disorder).

Director: Robert Kender, PhD

Director of Business Operations: Elizabeth Hall

Recovery Mentors Michele Willoughby, Kathryn Bauss, MAED, Shannon Godfrey, Guy Williams, BA

Clinical Staff: Robert Kender, PhD, LLP, Stefanie Tweedly, PsyD, LLP, Michael Josephson, MA, LLP, CAAC, Aneita Isbell, MA, LPC, CAAC, CRC, Oladayo Shobola, MD, Psychiatrist and Addictionologist, Sanjay Murthy, MD, Addictionologist and Family Medicine Practitioner