Victory House Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Victory House is a women's sober living home in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in Allen County. It is a certified recovery residence operated by Victory House, which partners with Indiana's Division of Mental Health and Addiction to extend case management, employment support and skills training to residents.

A Women's Sober House on Madison Street

This sober house in Fort Wayne offers apartment-style housing with a 25-bed capacity, currently limited to women, with the organization stating plans to add a men's location in the future. The apartment format gives residents more independence day to day than a traditional shared-bedroom sober house, while still keeping everyone inside one certified program.

Operated by a Certified Sober Living Operator

Victory House is operated by a certified operator and appears on Indiana's own Recovery Works provider list, the program that funds treatment and housing support for Hoosiers with substance use and mental health disorders. That listing requires the underlying recovery residence to carry state designation, which gives a prospective resident or referring agency a record to check.

Confronting Stigma as Part of the Program

Victory House frames its work around three forms of stigma facing people with mental health and addiction diagnoses: structural stigma from institutions, public stigma from community attitudes, and the self-stigma that grows out of both. Building that framing into the program is meant to give residents language for what they are up against beyond simply staying sober.

Partnerships With Law Enforcement and Reentry Programs

Victory House works with federal, state and local law enforcement and reentry organizations, along with outside treatment providers, and accepts government funding to support residents working toward recovery. That network gives residents coming out of the justice system a housing option built to work with the agencies already involved in their case.

Recovery Housing in Allen County

Fort Wayne is the seat of Allen County and the largest city in Northeast Indiana, with a concentration of outpatient treatment providers, courts and employers that a smaller Allen County town cannot match. That scale is part of why Fort Wayne recovery housing draws women from across the region.