About this Recovery House
W. Market Street Women's House is a sober living home for women in Georgetown, Delaware, the seat of Sussex County. Serenity Properties LLC operates it as one of three women's houses it runs in the town. Admissions are handled by the operator itself, and the house shares one set of expectations with every other address in the portfolio.
A Women's Sober House on West Market Street
West Market Street runs west out of The Circle, the small park at the center of Georgetown where the Sussex County Courthouse and the county administrative offices sit. That places this sober house inside walking distance of the county's civic core, which matters more than it sounds. Probation appointments, court dates and county services are the obligations most likely to derail someone's first month out of treatment, and here they are a walk from the door. The house serves women only, so bathrooms, house meetings and shared space are all single-gender and one set of rules covers the household.
Living in a Serenity Properties Sober Living Home
Residents pay rent on a schedule and are expected to keep up with obligations outside the house as well, including child support and anything outstanding in the courts. Chores and house functions are divided among the household. Neither expectation is unusual in recovery housing, and together they describe what the model is for. A woman leaving treatment with money problems, a court file and no routine gets a structure that treats all three as part of staying sober, and a household that notices when one of them slips.
Recovery Housing in Georgetown and Sussex County
Georgetown holds the densest concentration of recovery housing in Delaware, and the reason is administrative. As the county seat it carries the courthouse, the Sussex County offices and the Delaware Technical Community College Owens Campus, and DART First State connects it to Seaford, Millsboro, Lewes and the rest of the county. Sussex County recovery housing tends to cluster here because a resident without a car can still reach a job, a class, a meeting and a court date from one address. Delaware's Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health maintains statewide treatment and recovery resources through the Department of Health and Social Services.
What Delaware's Recovery Housing Law Establishes
Delaware certifies recovery residences through the First State Alliance of Recovery Residences, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences and the certifying body named in state law. Certification binds a residence to a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and house rules before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint process that runs outside the house. Anyone comparing women's sober houses in Sussex County can search that public register directly, and the standing of a particular address is a fair question to put to any operator.
Applying to This Georgetown Women's Recovery Home
Applications go through Serenity Properties, which admits to all of its houses. The questions worth asking before signing are practical ones: what rent covers and when it is due, how rent and any deposit are documented, how bedrooms are assigned, what happens after a relapse, and whether medication prescribed for opioid use disorder is accepted. An operator running several houses in one town should have those answers ready in writing.
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.
