Free Operator Assessment
Wanting to open a sober living home and being ready to run one are two different things, and the gap between them is where most first-year operators get hurt. This assessment scores what you already understand about recovery housing across five areas of the job, in 25 questions and about 10 minutes.
What you get
25 questions across five sections. About 10 minutes.
Three answers, in about 10 minutes.
Most people preparing to open a recovery home are further along in one area than they realise, and it is rarely the area they expected.
Five equally weighted sections make an uneven result visible. A blind spot you can name before opening day costs far less than one you meet afterwards.
Your written breakdown covers every question and what your answer suggests, so your next step is specific rather than a general sense that you should read more.
Answer all 25 questions, then tell us where to send your results. About 10 minutes.
Five sections, five questions each, weighted the same.
Those five sections are the whole job of running a NARR Level II recovery home.
The even split is deliberate. Operators tend to prepare hard in the area they already find interesting and arrive at opening day with a blind spot somewhere else. Giving each section the same weight is what makes the uneven result visible.
Six numbers, three bands.
You get one score for each of the five sections, plus an overall percentage across all 25 questions. Each score falls into one of three bands.
80% and above
You are already thinking like an operator in this area.
50% to 79%
A solid base, with a few areas worth firming up before you open.
Below 50%
This is where our team can help you most, and where self-study alone tends to be slowest.
Read the five section scores before the overall number. An operator at 72% overall who is at 20% on administration has a specific, fixable problem. An operator at 72% who is evenly spread across all five has a different one. The overall figure hides that difference and the section breakdown shows it.
Five patterns that show up again and again in the results.
None of them are about caring enough. They are about what the work actually contains.
Four groups get something different out of it.
Scores on screen, the detail by email, a person who has read it.
Your answers are scored on our server the moment you finish, and your section results appear on screen immediately. A copy goes to the email address you enter, so you have the breakdown to work from later.
Your scores are also saved to your record with us. That means when you do speak to someone on our team, they already know which two sections to spend the call on, and you do not spend the first fifteen minutes explaining where you are. If you retake the assessment after a few months of study, the new scores replace the old ones.
What people ask before they start.
About 10 minutes. There are 25 questions across five sections, most of them multiple choice with a short scenario attached. Several carry hints that add context before you answer, and there is no timer, so you can take as long as a question deserves.
No. The assessment is built for people who have never run a sober living home, and a low score in a section is information rather than a verdict. Many current operators score unevenly too, because the five areas draw on very different skills.
There is no pass mark. Scores of 80% and above read as strong footing, 50% to 79% as developing, and anything below 50% as worth a conversation. None of the three bands stops you from opening a recovery home. They tell you where to put your preparation time first.
Yes. The assessment is free and there is no purchase attached to your results. You enter your name and email once you have answered all 25 questions, so we can send you a copy of your section scores along with what each result suggests about your next step.
Your responses are scored on our server, and your section results are saved to your contact record so our team can pick the conversation up where you left it. You receive the same results by email. We do not sell your information or share it outside Vanderburgh Sober Living.
Yes, and operators often do after a few months of study or a training cohort. A retake replaces your earlier scores rather than adding a second set, so your record always reflects where you are now instead of where you started.
Not by itself. The assessment measures what you understand about running a recovery home, not whether you have the property, the capital, or the referral relationships in place. Knowledge is the part that is cheapest and fastest to fix, which is why it is worth measuring first.
Free Operator Assessment
Most people who open a sober living home learn these five areas the expensive way, one crisis at a time. Ten minutes of honest answers is a cheaper first draft of the same lesson, and it gives you something specific to work on.
25 questions. About 10 minutes. No pass mark, no cost.
