Sharon's Place Men's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Sharon's Place is a men's sober house in Middletown, Delaware, serving New Castle County. It holds eleven certified beds and is one of two Aquila of Delaware recovery residences in the town, the men's counterpart to the operator's women's house.

An Eleven Bed Men's Sober Living Home

Eleven men under one roof is a middle size for recovery housing. It is large enough that the household does not depend on any one resident and small enough that people know each other's names inside a week. The house is single gender throughout, so one set of rules covers everyone and the friction of a mixed building in early recovery never arises. Men who move in are expected to be building a day with a shape to it, which in Middletown usually means work.

Placement and the Unpublished Address of This Sober House

The street address of this recovery home is not published anywhere. Aquila holds it and releases it at placement, and Delaware's state treatment directory carries the same note against every certified residence in the state. The city, the county, the bed count and the certification are all matters of record, and those are the facts that decide whether a house is worth an application in the first place. Anyone comparing options in Delaware should treat a private address as ordinary here.

Delaware Law Behind This Certified Recovery Residence

Delaware certifies recovery housing under the Matthew Klosowski Act, and the First State Alliance of Recovery Residences is the only body the state has approved to do it. That makes certification a genuine gate. An operator cannot shop around for a cheaper credential and still list as certified in Delaware. A certified men's sober house has agreed to a published code of ethics, to written disclosure of fees and rules before move in, to a written relapse and discharge policy, and to an outside complaint process. An uncertified rooming house in the same town has agreed to none of it and can still call itself sober living.

A Men's Recovery Home in the Middletown Area

Middletown sits at the head of the Route 299 corridor in southern New Castle County, and the town has absorbed much of Delaware's population growth over the last two decades. The practical effect for a man in early recovery is a labor market. Distribution centers, construction, the trades, retail and health care all hire in and around the town, and the Route 1 and US 13 corridors put New Castle, Dover and the Delaware City industrial area within commuting range. The town is also close enough to Wilmington that a resident with a court obligation or a specialist appointment at the top of the county can keep it.

Sharon's Place Within Aquila's Recovery Housing

Aquila of Delaware runs six recovery residences in New Castle County and is a licensed behavioral health provider as well as a housing operator, with outpatient and residential treatment programs in Bear. A resident who finishes one of those programs and moves into this sober house keeps the same clinicians and the same county. A man who later needs a different household can raise it with people who already know him, since the operator runs other houses in Newark, Bear and Wilmington.