Stepping Forward for Women Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Stepping Forward for Women is a women's sober living home in Evansville, Indiana, on East Chestnut Street in Vanderburgh County, holding Level IV recovery residence designation and run by Southwestern Behavioral Healthcare.

A Women's Recovery Home on East Chestnut Street

East Chestnut Street sits on Evansville's east side, and Stepping Forward for Women gives female residents a dedicated address separate from the operator's clinical campuses elsewhere in the city. A single-gender household keeps meetings, staffing and daily structure built around women specifically.

What Level IV Designation Establishes

Stepping Forward for Women holds Level IV designation on Indiana's DMHA Recovery Residence Designation list, reviewed against the standards of the Indiana Affiliation of Recovery Residences, the state's NARR affiliate. Level IV is the most clinically integrated tier the state designates, built for residents who still need close coordination with a treatment provider, which fits naturally with an operator that runs its own outpatient and residential treatment programs.

Backed by a Regional Behavioral Health System

Southwestern Behavioral Healthcare has served Gibson, Posey, Warrick and Vanderburgh counties for decades and is accredited by the Joint Commission, with more than a dozen locations across the region. A resident at Stepping Forward for Women can draw on that same system for outpatient counseling, medication management and crisis services without switching providers.

Recovery Housing in Evansville and Vanderburgh County

Evansville is the seat of Vanderburgh County and the largest city in southwestern Indiana, and Southwestern Behavioral Healthcare's presence throughout the region means women referred from Gibson, Posey or Warrick counties can move into Stepping Forward for Women without losing continuity with a provider they may already know.