Oxford House

Oxford House, Inc. Annual Report Fiscal Year 2017

Oxford HouseTM

Self-run, Self-supported Recovery Housing

Oxford House, Inc.

1010 Wayne Avenue, Suite 300 Silver Spring, Maryland 20910



About Oxford House, Inc.

Board Members

Oxford House, Inc. [OHI] is the Delaware nonprofit, 501(c)(3) corporation that serves as the umbrella organization of the worldwide network of more than 2,200 individual Oxford Houses. Its central office is at 1010 Wayne Avenue, Suite 300, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910. The program can be developed on a national scale at very low cost and it supports recovery without relapse.

Oxford HouseTM is a concept and system of operations based on the experience of recovering alcoholics and drug addicts who learned that behavior change is essential to recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction. They also learned that Oxford House provided the living environment that could help them become comfortable enough with abstinent behavior to stay clean and sober without relapse.

The Oxford House Manual? is the basic blueprint that provides the organization and structure that permit groups of recovering individuals to successfully live together in a supportive environment. All Oxford Houses are rented ordinary single-family houses in good neighborhoods. There are Oxford Houses for men and Oxford Houses for women but there are no co-ed houses. The average number of residents per house nationally is about 8 with a range per house of 6 to 16.

Oxford Houses work because they: (1) have no time limit for how long a resident can live in an Oxford House; (2) follow a democratic system of operation; (3) utilize self-support to pay all the household expenses; and (4) adhere to the absolute requirement that any resident who returns to using alcohol or drugs must be immediately expelled. Oxford House provides the missing elements needed by most alcoholics and drug addicts to develop behavior to assure total abstinence. It provides the time, peer support and structured living environment necessary for longterm behavior change to take hold.

Individuals living in an Oxford House learn or relearn values and responsible behavior and, slowly but surely, they develop long-term behavior to assure comfortable sobriety ? forever. Some individuals live in Oxford Houses a few months; others for many years. By using participatory democracy and self-support, alcoholics, drug addicts and those with co-occurring mental illness develop long-term recovery.

After 43 years of steady growth and successful recovery outcomes, Oxford HouseTM has been proven to work. It is also a very cost-effective way to support long-term recovery from alcoholism, drug addiction and co-occurring mental illness. At the end of 2017, there were 2,287 Oxford Houses with 18,025 beds throughout the country.

Oxford House is listed as a best practice on the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices [NREPP] and was singled out as an effective tool for long-term recovery in the U.S. Surgeon General's report: "Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General's Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health, 2016."

Silver Spring, Maryland January 30, 2018

Jerry Conlon, Chairman Former Executive CNW Railway Evanston, IL 60201

William C. Paley* William C. Paley Foundation Washington, DC 20036

William Newman Attorney, District of Columbia

Washington, DC 20006

Judy O'Hara Attorney, District of Columbia Washington, DC 20036

Col. Kenneth Hoffman, M.D. Retired US Army Rockville, MD 20850

J. Paul Molloy* Chief Executive Officer Oxford House, Inc. Silver Spring, MD 20910

James McClain* Retired USPS Temple Hills, MD 20748

Thomas O'Hara Former Executive Prudential Securities McLean VA 22102

Janice E. Jordan Retired Virginia BHDS Glen Allen, VA 23060

Robert L. DuPont, M.D. Institute for Behavior and Health, Inc. Rockville, MD 20852

Stuart Gitlow, M.D. Past President, ASAM Woonsocket, RI 02895

Tim Ring* World Council Chairperson Oklahoma City, OK 73120

* Alumnus or Resident

TABLE OF CONTENTS

National Profile ............................................................................ 2 Message from the CEO .................................................... 3 Management Report .................................................................... 5 Oxford House: Unique, Time-tested, Evidence-based ............. 8 Opioid Addiction ? What's Needed Now .......................... 10 Meeting Demand Through Technology and Expansion ....12 The Oxford House Family ......................................................... 14 Houses Helping Houses ? And Giving Back ............................ 18 Trust But Teach .......................................................................... 20 Highlights of the 2017 Oxford House World Convention ....... 22 FY 2017 Financials ...................................................................... 28 A Few Houses in the Oxford House Network .....................,..... 32

NEXT OXFORD HOUSE CONVENTION Kansas City, Missouri October 4-7, 2018

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NATIONAL PROFILE

Good Houses in Good Neighborhoods

Oxford House ? Hampton Hampton, Virginia

Oxford House ? Hampton (pictured at the left) is an Oxford House for 8 men that was established in Hampton, Virginia on February 1, 1998. It is one of 137 Oxford Houses in Virginia. It has been home to 320 men in recovery. Only 64 have had to leave because of relapse. It is an example of how Oxford Houses continue year after year.

There are houses for men; houses for women; houses for women with children and houses for men with children but there are no co-ed houses.

Creating an Effective National Recovery Network One House at a Time

National Oxford House Resident Profile1

Number of Women's Houses:

669

Number of Houses for Men:

1,618

National Network of Houses:

2,287

Number of States with Houses:

44

Average Age of Residents

37.2

Average Educational Level

12.2 yrs.

Average Cost/Person Per Week: $123

Residents Working:

87%

Percent Addicted to Both Drugs and Alcohol:

79%

Race --

White; Black; Other

69% 22%

9%

Prior Homelessness:

68%

Prior Jail:

77%

Average AA or NA Meetings

Per Week:

5.2

Average Length of Sobriety of

House Residents:

13.4 Mos.

Average Length of Stay In an Oxford House:

8.3 Mos.

Recovery Beds for Women:

5,153

Recovery Beds for Men:

12,872

Total Recovery Beds:

18,025

Cities with Oxford Houses:

481

Percent Veterans

12%

Range of Educational Level 3-19 yrs.

Average Rent/Group/Month

$1,526

Average Monthly Earnings:

$1,895

Percent Addicted to Only Alcohol:

21%

Marital Status -Never Married Separated Divorced Married Widowed

Average Time Homeless:

48% 18% 28%

5% 1% 7.9 Mos.

Average Jail Time:

13.4 Mos.

Percent Going To Counseling plus AA/NA:

45%

Residents Expelled Because of Relapse:

21.9%

Average No. of Applicants

For Each Vacant Bed:

4.4

1 As of June 30, 2017 based on standard OHI survey and house reports. Number of houses and beds is as of December 31, 2017.

Oxford House Fast Facts

? 18,025 - Number of Oxford Recovery Beds

? 2,287 - Number of Oxford Houses as of December 31, 2017

? 44 - Number of States having Oxford Houses

? 31 ? Number of Oxford Houses in D.C. [269 Beds]

? 481 - Number of towns and cities having Oxford Houses

? $1,895 - Average monthly income of residents

? $123 - Average weekly share of expenses paid by Oxford residents

? 68% of Oxford House residents had been homeless for an average total length of 7.9 months

? 79% addicted to drugs and alcohol ? 21% just alcohol

? 77% had done jail time connected to their addiction

? 13.4 months - Average length of sobriety

? 263 - New Oxford Houses started CY 2017 (101 houses for women; 162 for men)

? 2,106 Total Added Recovery Beds (1,340 for men: 766 for women).

? CY 2017 residents: 37,852 with 21.9% expelled because of relapse.

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MESSAGE FROM THE CEO

Oxford HouseTM is now 43 years old and has become a significant tool for helping people to achieve long-term recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction. I am often asked how the Oxford HouseTM success has been achieved. I always start my response by pointing out that the organization has kept its focus solely on recovery by not owning any real estate or accumulating wealth. Even well-meaning folks can mess things up by trying to make a buck by exploiting addiction and recovery. From its beginning, Oxford HouseTM has avoided that temptation.

The second wise decision of Oxford HouseTM was to rely upon organizational forms that are embedded in American culture ? egalitarianism, participatory democracy and selfhelp. The only good thing that can be said about alcoholism and drug addiction is that they are egalitarian diseases. Early on, Oxford HouseTM residents celebrated the egalitarian nature of recovery. Participatory democracy lies at the heart of the American Constitution and the quest for a more perfect union. Self-help sparked by the American Revolution weaves itself throughout American history. De Tocqueville marveled at it in 1835, particularly with respect to temperance movements, and self-help continues to be at the heart of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous.

The Oxford House Manual? sets forth a pragmatic application of these basic values. It was written in 1975. It has become the touchstone for thousands of recovering individuals who decided to rent an ordinary house, equally share household expenses and manage its operations in a way to build self-confidence and support long-term recovery. Old-timers in AA always used to say, "All you need to start a new AA meeting is two folks with a resentment and a coffee pot." Starting a new Oxford House requires a little more structure. The OHI central service office works with Houses to explain and implement the structure.

The charter becomes the entry point for any group starting an Oxford HouseTM. In addition to requiring that the group accommodate six or more individuals, the charter sets forth three basic conditions: [1] the group must be democratically self-run following the process and procedures in the Oxford House Manual?; [2] the group must be financially selfsupporting; and [3] the group must immediately expel any resident who returns to drinking alcohol or using illicit drugs. Any group of six or more recovering persons can be granted a charter and there is no charge. The charter is granted initially on a probationary basis and, during the first six months, the group must demonstrate that it understands and abides by the Oxford House system of operations. Once a new group understands the system, it is granted a permanent charter that can only be revoked for noncompliance.

Every resident pays an equal share of household expenses and has an equal voice in all house operations. Five House officers are elected by the group. They serve for only six months at a time. The weekly business meeting becomes the forum for resolving all issues and disputes that may arise from a group of people living together and includes expulsion of residents who relapse and acceptance of new residents. If you ask ten residents, "Who manages the house?," nine out of ten will respond, "Oh, the `inmates run the asylum' and it works just fine, thank you."

House Officers

President Secretary Treasurer Comptroller Chore Coordinator

The self-run feature of Oxford Houses has two advantages: [1] it saves expenses by not having a paid staff in the House, and [2] it helps builds self-esteem because residents take pride in being responsible for running the House themselves. The self-esteem is

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