At First Step House, housing is more than a roof – it is healthcare. Every apartment and recovery residence we create is designed for people whose health conditions and life experiences have kept them from stability anywhere else.
Most people who enter our housing move step by step into independent living. Recovery residences provide a safe bridge: graduates of treatment live in sober, affordable housing while working, saving money, and preparing for life on their own.
For a smaller group of people – those with serious, long-term behavioral health conditions – permanent supportive housing is essential. These apartments combine affordability with onsite healthcare and support, creating stability where repeated cycles of homelessness and crisis once defined their lives.
Together, this continuum ensures that no matter someone’s level of need, they have a safe place to live and the healthcare to make recovery possible.
Safe, affordable apartments with onsite services for people living with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, or disabilities. Designed for those who cannot sustain housing without ongoing healthcare and support.
52 units for people completing treatment who would otherwise face homelessness. Short-term, sober housing that allows residents to work, attend outpatient treatment, and save for independent housing.
Valor House is Utah’s only transitional housing for veterans experiencing both homelessness and behavioral health conditions.
First Step House provides case management services for many deeply affordable apartment units throughout Salt Lake County. These units offer safe, stable permanent housing for families at risk of homelessness.
Trisha
Tenant in Stratford Permanent Supportive Housing
After completing treatment and rebuilding her life after prison, Trisha moved into Stratford Apartments. Living close to work and surrounded by peers in recovery, she’s been able to save money, stay connected, and build stability in a supportive community.
“I just got a big promotion, and I’m able to start saving money so that I can focus on getting the things I need as opposed to being helpless and running around the streets. So, I’m very hopeful!”
Permanent Supportive Housing units
New apartment buildings under construction
Recovery housing units
Housing units for veterans
of PSH residents are housed after 2 years, compared to 50% nationally
of recovery housing residents secure permanent housing
At First Step House they don’t offer short-cuts or shallow, easy promises. They think long term about what people need to change their lives, and then take action to provide services throughout a person’s journey to recovery.
First Step House Graduate
Every home we create is a healthcare intervention. Your support ensures more
people can move from crisis to recovery and lifelong stability.