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The term Oxford House refers to any house operating under the "Oxford House Model", a community-based approach to addiction recovery, which provides an independent, supportive, and sober living environment. [1] Today there are nearly 3,000 Oxford Houses in the United States and other countries. [2] Each house is based on three rules:
Arising out of the philanthropic and social movement of the mid-Victorian age which had found support at the University of Oxford and from the Tractarianism (or Oxford Movement) of the High Anglican Church, the settlement movement sprang up primarily from the work of the Barnetts (Samuel, rector of Whitechapel, and his wife Henrietta), whose pioneering view saw the first steps to establishing ...
Oxford House may refer to: Oxford House, a system of drug rehabilitation shelter/halfway houses; Oxford House (Grand Forks, North Dakota), listed on the NRHP in North Dakota; Oxford House, Manitoba, First Nations Cree community in Canada; Oxford House, Hong Kong, an office tower within the TaiKoo Place complex in Hong Kong; Oxford House ...
Representatives for Oxford House Inc. and Rockford have agreed to put condemnation proceedings on hold until after an April inspection of the sober-living houses located in city neighborhoods.
Authorities have said the plaintiffs endured brutal physical and sexual abuse in a foster home run by the Blouin family.
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Bunibonibee Cree Nation (Cree: ᐸᓂᑇᓂᐱᐩ, panipwânipiy), formerly known as Oxford House First Nation and as Oxford House Band of Indians, is a First Nation located along the eastern shoreline of Oxford Lake at the headwaters of the Hayes River and is approximately 950 kilometres (590 mi) northeast of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
In 1995, Roaf built the Oxford Ecohouse, a house in Oxford designed to maximise energy efficiency. It is equipped with the first photovoltaic cell roof installed in Britain. A six-bedroom family home, it produces only 130 kg CO 2 /annum per metre square, in contrast to comparable UK houses that produce 5000 kg CO 2 /annum m 2 .