The City of Boulder has selected Hazelbrook, a Colorado-based recovery services provider, to operate its recovery home for homeless people with substance use disorders.
The city first opened the 11-bed residential program on Pearl Street in 2023, but it closed in September 2025 after the previous vendor cited challenges with federal funding and a diverging mission with the city. The new provider has been asked to provide services such as therapy, case management and peer recovery support, according to the city’s request for proposals.
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Hazelbrook, founded in 2016, will begin accepting clients on May 1, according to the city. The program targets homeless adults with substance use disorders, as well as people transitioning out of incarceration.
The city is providing the facility at essentially no cost. Hazelbrook is expected to pay for operations primarily through Medicaid billing and other insurance reimbursement.
The recovery home has been a central part of the city’s strategy to address substance use among homeless people. More than a dozen homeless people died in 2025 from methamphetamine and fentanyl toxicity, according to autopsy reports.
The closure of the recovery home last year followed the shutdown of Boulder’s only homeless youth shelter and a residential treatment home for young people. The city said it received four completed applications to operate the recovery home.
“Recovery homes with peer support offer a stable first step to permanent housing and recovery for people exiting homelessness, and we’re excited to bring this service back to the Boulder community through our partnership with Hazelbrook,” Megan Newton, the city’s homelessness policy advisor, said in a statement.
I’m so glad they are opening this! I hope it helps these people get their lives back!
As a person that has been homeless and im recovery this is a very important to the homeless community and for people in recovery and in active addiction to get help and not have to worry about the cost. For me that was one of the issues that I had when I was looking for a place to get help. I wish they had more opportunities like this for people because just because we are poor we still deserve the best treatment possible so we dont have to struggle with addiction alone and so we can get the help we need to live our best life sober and happy. I hope they implement a great therapy program also because that’s a huge problem why some of us turn to drugs and alcohol because we are using those to push down trauma and pain and if those underline issues aren’t addressed also recovery isnt 100% possible.
How would one apply for a position here?