About this Sober House
Dignity House is a women's recovery home in Phoenix, Arizona, in Maricopa County, serving women rebuilding their lives after sexual exploitation, domestic violence and addiction. It is operated by Dignity House Recovery Homes, founded by Kathleen Mitchell after more than a decade working directly with women in recovery. The program pairs housing with structured support, and that combination is the reason a woman leaving a shelter or a court-ordered program might choose it over a room with no services attached.
A Women's Recovery Home for Survivors and Women in Addiction Recovery
Dignity House takes women moving past sexual exploitation, domestic violence and substance use, often at the same time. Housing that treats those three histories as connected, rather than three separate intake forms, is not something every recovery residence in the Phoenix area offers. Every resident here is a woman, which keeps meetings, common space and staff interactions consistent for a population that often needs exactly that consistency after leaving unstable or unsafe housing.
Case Management and Therapy at This Phoenix Sober Living Home
The program built around the house has three parts: group therapy, individual therapy, and case management aimed at independent living. Group sessions give residents a peer structure that mirrors twelve-step and trauma-recovery models. Individual therapy addresses what a shared group setting cannot. Case management is the piece that turns a stay here into a plan, connecting residents to housing, employment and benefits so the goal is a lease of their own, not an open-ended stay.
Why This Recovery Residence Keeps Its Address Private
Dignity House Recovery Homes does not publish a street address for this location, and that is deliberate. A residence built around survivors of trafficking and domestic violence has a safety reason most sober houses do not: an abuser or trafficker with the address is a real risk to the people living there. Prospective residents and referring agencies reach the house through Dignity House Recovery Homes directly, and placement is arranged from there rather than by walking up to a listed door.
What Arizona Recovery Housing Certification Establishes
Arizona's voluntary certification body, the Arizona Recovery Housing Association, holds member residences to a published code of ethics, written fee and rule disclosure, and an outside complaint process. AzRHA does not license anything and does not replace the state's separate licensing track for sober living homes through the Arizona Department of Health Services. The two credentials answer different questions, one about ethics and operating standards, the other about a state license to operate. Anyone comparing recovery housing in Arizona benefits from asking which one, if either, a given residence holds.
Recovery Housing in Phoenix and Maricopa County
Phoenix is both the state capital and the seat of Maricopa County, and that puts an unusually large share of Arizona's shelters, courts and outpatient providers within the same city. For a woman coming out of a shelter placement, a diversion program or a residential treatment stay, that concentration matters: fewer of the appointments a case plan requires happen in a different city entirely. Dignity House sits inside that network rather than at its edge.
Reaching Dignity House Recovery Homes in Phoenix
Referrals and applications go through Dignity House Recovery Homes directly. Because the program combines housing with clinical and case management support, the intake conversation covers more ground than a typical sober house application: safety history, current legal or shelter status, and what support is already in place. That conversation, more than an address, is what determines whether the house is the right fit.
More on our Sober House
Our sober house goal is to eradicate the devastating effects of sexual exploitation and domestic violence through stability and safe housing. Our vision is borne from the empathy and understanding we have for the devastating effects these damaging lifestyles have on sober living women, as well as the great hope and certainty we place in the healing process.
