About this Recovery Home
Tabatha Dickson Freedom House, Decatur, Illinois, is a sober living home for women in Macon County and the women's house of Freedom House Recovery.
The Women's House of a Two-House Organization
Freedom House Recovery publishes this West Decatur Street address as its women's facility, the Tabatha Dickson Freedom House. The distinction matters to anyone searching: the organization's name and this house's name are not the same, and it is this address that identifies the women's residence.
How Cost Works at Intake
Freedom House Recovery charges a weekly fee, and a resident's cost accrues until she is able to obtain employment. After employment is secured, clients work out a repayment plan while keeping their current cost updated. The practical effect is that a woman can move in before she has a paycheck. That sequence decides who can actually use the house: someone leaving treatment with no income and no savings is admitted on the same terms as someone already working, and the balance she builds up is settled out of wages once there are wages to settle it from.
Zero Tolerance and Who Is Accepted
The Tabatha Dickson Freedom House runs on zero tolerance for any substance use, the boundary that separates recovery housing from ordinary rooming. Freedom House Recovery states that no sex offender and no offender convicted of violence against youth is accepted as a client, which makes the household's admission standard a matter of published record. A woman considering the house therefore knows both rules in advance, and so does the counselor or probation officer arranging the referral.
Shared Rooms and Common Space
This house is organized around shared rooms. Kitchens, full baths and washers and dryers are used in common, alongside good size common areas and large yards. Wi-Fi is provided and rooms have their own televisions. Shared space of that kind is the mechanism of a recovery residence rather than an economy: a woman who cooks and does laundry in company stays in daily contact with the household instead of behind a closed door.
A Companion House for Men Across Town
Freedom House Recovery also runs a men's house in Decatur, the Shawn David Freedom House on West Macon Street. The two addresses let the organization keep single-gender households while serving both men and women in the same city.
Recovery Housing in Decatur
Macon County's seat is Decatur, which keeps county offices, courts and local services close to this address for a resident who has no car. The city stands on the Sangamon River in central Illinois and is the county's largest city, so the services a woman needs are concentrated in the same municipality she lives in. Anyone weighing sober living options in Decatur, or comparing Macon County recovery housing more broadly, will find the Tabatha Dickson Freedom House named by its operator as the women's residence of the two.
ABOUT US
Our Vision is to provide a Stable Safe and comfortable living situation that promotes the use of individual accountability through Self-Motivated aftercare programs set up by the various rehabilitation facilities and their workers while encouraging the use of 12 step programs in the local area of each individual Freedom House to being utilized. The Freedom House Strives to provide life experiences that promote a successful and productive return to society through you Program.
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.
