About this Sober House
Recovery 12 Solutions - Norwich II is a women's sober house in Norwich, Connecticut, in New London County. It is the operator's women's residence in the city, part of a twelve-step recovery community that also runs houses in Groton and New London.
Women's Sober Living in New London County
Women's beds are the scarcer half of Connecticut's recovery housing, and in the eastern counties the shortage is acute. This house serves women only. For someone leaving treatment at a facility in Norwich, Groton or New London, a women's sober house inside the same county is often the difference between staying near a support network and moving to Hartford to find a bed.
A Twelve-Step Recovery Home for Women
The operator runs a twelve-step recovery community, and residents are expected to be working a program. Houses are kept separately for people new to recovery and for people with clean time, so a woman is placed by where she actually is. In practice the household around her is doing the same work at the same pace, and the accountability is peer accountability. Nobody is monitoring the house at three in the morning except the women living in it.
Getting Around From a Norwich Sober House
SEAT covers Norwich, New London, Groton and the casino corridor, which is where most of the region's entry-level hiring happens. Backus Hospital is in the city. Three Rivers Community College is in the town. The operator does not publish this house's street address, and the city is compact enough that its services sit within a few square miles regardless. A woman without a car can hold a job, keep an appointment and get to a meeting here on the same fare.
How Connecticut Records Recovery Residences
The state's DMHAS availability roster lists supported recovery housing programs, and this house is on it. That record is separate from certification, which the Connecticut Alliance of Recovery Residences grants to recovery residences that agree in writing to a code of ethics, up-front disclosure of fees and rules, a relapse and discharge policy, and outside complaint review. Two different systems, two different things to verify.
What to Ask This Women's Recovery Home
Applications go through the operator. Ask what the weekly fee covers, what a deposit is refunded against, whether a house manager lives on site, how many women share a bedroom, whether children can visit, what the relapse policy says in writing, and whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted. The visitation question gets skipped more than any other, and for a mother it decides the whole thing.
