About this Recovery House
Roots to Recovery Women's Recovery House is a sober living home for women in Delray Beach, Florida, in Palm Beach County. It is the second Delray Beach residence run by Roots to Recovery, a local operator providing transitional housing for women in the western part of the city.
Women's Recovery Housing in Delray Beach
Everyone living here is a woman, and the house is organized on that basis. Sharing a household with people facing the same set of problems removes a running negotiation from every day, and it is the reason single-gender housing remains the standard model in recovery residences. The street address is not published for this location, and placement runs through the operator, so the useful things to weigh before applying are the city, the household and the terms.
Palm Beach County Recovery Homes and the Delray Corridor
Delray Beach holds one of the largest concentrations of recovery housing in the country, and it sits in the middle of a twenty-mile stretch of the Palm Beach and Broward coast that includes Boynton Beach, West Palm Beach and Boca Raton. West Palm Beach is the county seat, roughly fifteen miles north, and it holds the courthouse, the county health department and the largest cluster of outpatient providers in the region. Tri-Rail runs that corridor with stations in Delray Beach and Boynton Beach, Palm Tran covers the local streets, and Interstate 95 and US-1 run parallel the length of it. A woman without a car can hold a job and keep appointments here in a way that is difficult in most of Florida.
What Certification Establishes for a Florida Recovery Residence
Certification in Florida is voluntary and administered by the Florida Association of Recovery Residences, which the Department of Children and Families has approved as the state's sole credentialing entity for this housing. What it buys a resident is enforceable process: a signed code of ethics, fees and rules disclosed in writing before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint route that leaves the household. Because it is optional, absence from a list says nothing about a house. Ask the operator directly about the current status of the residence you are considering.
Applying to This Delray Beach Sober Living Home
Applications go through Roots to Recovery. The questions worth putting to the operator are concrete: what the weekly fee includes, what the deposit is and under what circumstances it is returned, how many women share a room, whether a house manager lives on site, how curfew and drug testing are handled, and whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted. Ask also how the two Delray Beach houses differ, because moving between them is easier than moving between operators.
More on the sober house
Expectations during and after the sober living program
-Strong sense of structure that helps residents build self-confidence.
-Expand life skills, and develop long-lasting relationships despite addiction.
-Medication maintenance accepted under physician care
-Fully trained staff, Security measures including surveillance and Alert system.
-Relapse and Violence Prevention education and tools
-Tools for Smoking Cessation
-Person-Centered Care, One-on-one, Group, and Family interaction.
-Go beyond the typical evidence-based treatments with use of "The Phase Program"
