About Us
Oxford Houses of Texas State Board Association
Statement of Purpose
Oxford Houses began in 1975 and are democratic self-run and self-supported recovery homes for individuals recovering from addiction to alcohol and/or other drugs. As a result of Oxford Houses multiplying throughout the United States, Canada and Australia, thousands of people have given up the use of drugs and alcohol and have returned to productive citizenship.
Since the conception of Oxford House, we have had trusted servants selected from our peers to provide the leadership and structure needed to maintain the Oxford House concept of democratic self-run, self-supported housing for recovering alcoholics/drug addicts to help themselves. Our trusted servants have performed well, yet as Oxford House grows, the need for leadership and structure grows with it.
During the eighties developing Chapters, which unified individual houses in an area into one family, solved the need for more structure. Chapters provided support greatly needed during a time of rapid expansion, and paved the way by having all houses share their strength, experience and hope with each other to assure that each house is truly democratically self-run and self-supported.
A few of our Oxford House goals for the future are to promote equal representation and greater self-sufficiency throughout the State of Texas. This can be accomplished through further expansion efforts and the development of the State Board so that leadership and structure can always be close to the individual Oxford House. Again we need to rely on our peers to provide the necessary leadership and structure to unify Oxford House as a whole so that all its parts become one.
The Texas State Board Association was created to assist Chapters in the expansion of new houses and to provide technical assistance by sharing experience, strength and hope between Oxford House members from all over the State of Texas.
A change in these by-laws requires a two-thirds majority vote by the Board members.
Democratic Self-Run, Self-Supported Houses