About this Recovery House
The Cottage is a women's sober house on N. Margaret Street in Georgetown, Delaware, in Sussex County. Serenity Properties LLC publishes it under both names, the street and the house name, and it is one of the operator's three women's residences in the town.
Where The Cottage Sober House Sits in Georgetown
North Margaret Street lies in the older residential grid north of The Circle, a few blocks off the town center. Georgetown is compact, and that compactness is the practical argument for a sober house here. The courthouse, the county offices, the library, the shops and most of the town's employers fall inside a walkable radius, and DART First State covers what falls outside it. Women living at The Cottage can hold a job and keep appointments before a car is realistic, which is the stretch when most people in early recovery lose their footing.
Twelve-Step Fellowship at This Women's Recovery Home
Serenity Properties asks residents to become active members of a twelve-step fellowship, naming Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and Chemically Dependent Anonymous. Active means something specific here. A resident attends meetings regularly, gets a sponsor and settles on a home group. The distinction between showing up at meetings and belonging to a fellowship is the whole point of the requirement, and it is the part of the program that outlasts the tenancy. Someone who leaves The Cottage with a sponsor and a home group leaves with the structure still intact.
A Small Operator Running Several Sober Living Homes
Rick Greenberg founded Serenity Properties after three decades in the recovery community, and he stays in direct contact with residents across the houses. For a woman applying, the size of the operation cuts a particular way. Decisions about admissions and discharge are made by someone reachable who knows the household, and a resident who needs a different set of housemates can raise it with that same person. The operator keeps men's and women's houses as entirely separate households.
Recovery Housing in the Sussex County Seat
Georgetown holds more recovery housing than any other town in Delaware, and being the county seat explains most of it. Sussex County's courts, its administration and Delaware Technical Community College's Owens Campus all sit here, and the treatment providers serving southern Delaware orient toward the same crossroads. A woman coming out of treatment in Seaford, Millsboro or one of the beach towns often finds that Georgetown recovery housing is the nearest address within reach of everything she has to keep up with.
Questions to Ask This Georgetown Sober House
Applications go to Serenity Properties, which admits to all of its houses. Ask what rent covers and how it is paid, how quickly a bed opens, whether anyone manages the house on site, how the employment expectation is handled for someone starting on part-time hours, and what the policy is on prescribed medication for opioid use disorder. Delaware's First State Alliance of Recovery Residences certifies recovery residences in the state, and its public register is the place to check the standing of any house under consideration.
Sober living homes are group residences for people who are recovering from addiction. In most instances, people who live in sober homes have to follow certain house rules and contribute to the home by doing chores. Most importantly, residents must stay sober throughout their stay in the home.
