Pearl Street House Men's Sober House

About this Sober House

Pearl Street House is a men's sober house on Pearl Street in Middletown, Connecticut, the seat of Middlesex County. All-In Recovery Homes operates it as part of a seven-house Connecticut network.

A Men's Sober House on Pearl Street

Men in recovery live here. Pearl Street sits in a residential block of Middletown within walking distance of the Main Street corridor, which is where most of the city's jobs, services and meetings are. Single-gender housing keeps one set of expectations across the household and removes a set of complications from the first weeks after treatment, when a resident's attention is better spent on work and appointments. The house is a place to live, and the clinical work happens with providers elsewhere in the city.

Middletown Recovery Housing and Middlesex County

Middletown is the county seat and the service center for all of Middlesex County, and that concentration is unusual for a Connecticut city of its size. Middlesex Health runs the region's hospital here. Wesleyan University and Middlesex Community College sit inside the city. Connecticut Valley Hospital, the state psychiatric hospital operated by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, occupies a large campus on the south side of town, which puts a significant share of the state's public behavioral health workforce and referral network in one place. Middletown Area Transit covers the city, and Route 9 connects it to Hartford in one direction and the shoreline in the other.

What the DMHAS Roster Establishes for This Recovery Home

This house appears on Connecticut's supported recovery housing roster, published by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. That listing means the state knows the operator, knows the program, and directs people leaving publicly funded treatment toward it. It is a service listing. Voluntary certification of recovery residences in Connecticut is a separate process handled by CTARR, and the two records answer different questions for someone comparing addresses.

Medication-Assisted Treatment and This Sober Living Home

The operator states that it supports medication-assisted treatment for residents. In a city that hosts as much of Connecticut's public treatment system as Middletown does, a large share of the men looking for housing arrive on a prescribed medication. Housing that accepts them keeps the address and the treatment aligned, and it means a man does not have to conceal a prescription to keep a bed.

All-In Recovery Homes Beyond Middletown

All-In runs three men's houses in New Britain, on Park Place, Steele Street and Omo Street, a men's house on Stearns Street in Bristol, and a women's house on Valley Street in Willimantic. A man whose work or family pulls him toward Hartford County can raise a transfer with an operator that already holds his history in the house, and the fee structure and expectations travel with him.