About this Sober House
Community of Hope - Groton is a women's recovery home in Groton, Connecticut, in New London County. Community of Hope Inc. operates it as Hope House, a twelve-bed residential recovery home for women, and it appears on the Connecticut DMHAS supported recovery housing roster.
A Twelve-Bed Women's Recovery Home in Groton
Twelve beds is a small house, and the size sets the character of the place. The operator describes it as family-style living, where residents share meals and share responsibility for the household. In a house that size, an absence is noticed the same day. Everyone knows everyone's schedule, and the accountability comes from the other women in the building as much as from any rule. The residence serves women only, so the household, its rules and its shared space are built around one population. The street address is not published, and placement runs through the operator.
Recovery Housing at No Cost to Residents
Community of Hope publishes something almost no Connecticut sober house can: residents pay nothing. Hope House is operated by a 501(c)(3) public charity and funded through donations and grants instead of weekly resident fees. For a woman leaving treatment with no income, no savings and often no credit, the weekly fee is the reason she ends up back in the environment she was trying to leave. Removing it changes who can actually access recovery housing in southeastern Connecticut, and it is the most consequential fact on this listing.
A Faith-Based Sober Living Home That Does Not Require Faith
The program is faith-based and describes itself as non-denominational and spiritually grounded, welcoming women from all religious backgrounds and from none. Participation in the spiritual side is optional. That combination is worth understanding before applying. A resident who wants a recovery environment with a spiritual dimension will find one here. A resident who does not is not being asked to adopt one to keep her bed, which is a distinction many faith-based houses do not draw as clearly.
Structure, Life Skills and Recovery Coach Training
The house runs on structured support, mentoring, life skills work and vocational training, with residents working toward independent living. Recovery coach certification through the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery is available to residents and graduates, which turns a stay into a credential someone can carry into paid work in the recovery field. Women who came through the house and then trained as coaches become the mentors for the ones arriving next, and that loop is the operating model of the place.
Sober Living in Groton and New London County
Groton sits on the east bank of the Thames River, across from New London. Naval Submarine Base New London and General Dynamics Electric Boat are both here, and between them, the hospitals and the casinos twenty minutes inland, southeastern Connecticut has a deeper entry-level job market than most of the state outside the cities. New London, the county seat, is a bridge away and holds the courthouse, Lawrence and Memorial Hospital, Amtrak and Shore Line East service, and most of the region's outpatient providers. Southeast Area Transit connects the towns. For a woman rebuilding a work history, this stretch of shoreline gives her somewhere to do it.
What Connecticut Certification Would Add to This Recovery Home
This program is listed by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services as supported recovery housing, which establishes a state referral relationship. Connecticut does not license sober houses, and certification of recovery residences is voluntary, granted by CTARR, the Connecticut Alliance of Recovery Residences. Certification commits a house to a published code of ethics, written disclosure of rules before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, and complaint review from outside the house. It is the record a family can check from a distance, and it is a fair question to put to any residence.
