Da Vinci Recovery Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Da Vinci Recovery is a women's sober living home on Springer Drive in Port Richey, Florida, in Pasco County. It runs a structured household organized around animal care, serving women on the Gulf Coast north of the Tampa Bay metropolitan area.

A Women's Sober House Built Around Animal Care

Most recovery residences ask residents to keep a schedule. This one attaches part of that schedule to animals, which changes how the requirement lands. An animal has to be fed whether or not a resident feels like getting up, and it responds to consistency in a way that a chore chart does not. For a woman whose early sobriety keeps stalling on the flat hours between obligations, a household with a living thing depending on her fills those hours with something she can see the point of.

A Women's Recovery Residence in Port Richey and Pasco County

Port Richey sits on the Gulf Coast about forty miles northwest of Tampa, on the US Highway 19 corridor that carries most of west Pasco County's traffic, jobs and services. Dade City is the county seat and sits inland on the other side of the county. The coastal side of Pasco is where the population, the retail and service employment, and the outpatient providers are concentrated, so a resident here is inside reach of work and appointments without a long drive across the county.

Single-Gender Recovery Housing on Florida's Gulf Coast

The house serves women. That decision does more than most people expect in a small household: bathrooms, common space and the weekly house conversation are all organized around one population, and a woman who left a mixed setting because of what happened in it can be certain of the arrangement before she applies. Pasco County has far less recovery housing stock than the state's southeast coast, and a women's specific residence in the county is a short list item.

How Florida Certifies a Recovery Residence

Certification for recovery residences in Florida is voluntary and runs through the Florida Association of Recovery Residences, the only credentialing entity approved by the state's Department of Children and Families for residences. A certified house discloses fees and rules before move-in, keeps a written relapse and discharge policy, and answers complaints through a process outside its own walls. Because the program is voluntary, absence from a list says nothing about a house, and the questions to put to any Gulf Coast operator are the same either way: what the weekly fee covers, whether a manager lives on site, how the household handles a relapse, and whether prescribed medication for opioid use disorder is accepted.