Heart Rock Justus Family Recovery Center 1 Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Heart Rock Justus Family Recovery Center 1 is a sober living home for women in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Winthrop Avenue in Marion County, holding Level III recovery residence designation and run by Heart Rock, a program of Overdose Lifeline.

A Women's Sober House on Winthrop Avenue

This Winthrop Avenue residence is built specifically for pregnant and parenting women, and that focus shapes everything about how the house runs. Children under two may live on site with their mothers, with onsite childcare available while residents attend group therapy and structured programming, a design most sober living homes do not offer.

What Level III Designation Establishes

Heart Rock holds Level III designation on Indiana's DMHA Recovery Residence Designation list, reviewed against standards set by the Indiana Affiliation of Recovery Residences, the state's NARR affiliate. Level III describes housing with on-site oversight and coordination with outside clinical services, above simple peer-run housing. For a family evaluating a residence for a pregnant relative, that designation is a record they can check independently.

A Long-Term, Trauma-Informed Program

The average stay at Heart Rock runs twelve to eighteen months, considerably longer than a typical sober living program, because the organization's case managers are working toward stability for a mother and child together, not just abstinence. Residents take part in individual and group trauma therapy, twelve-step meetings, nutritional counseling and job-skills training, with a case manager assigned to coordinate services both during the stay and after discharge.

Subsidized Housing Tied to Income

Heart Rock prices its program on a sliding scale tied to a resident's monthly income, with financial assistance available for women who qualify. That structure is part of how the program keeps itself accessible to women who are also supporting a child.

Recovery Housing in Indianapolis and Marion County

Indianapolis is the seat of Marion County and the state capital, and its concentration of hospitals, outpatient providers and family services gives a program built around mothers and young children the referral network it needs. Women coming from residential treatment or a hospital discharge elsewhere in central Indiana are commonly referred to Heart Rock through that same network.