Pathway to Recovery Coed Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Pathway to Recovery is a coed sober living home on Alabama Street in Indianapolis, Indiana, in Marion County, run by a nonprofit that has housed Hoosiers recovering from homelessness, addiction and mental illness since 1991.

A Coed Sober House on Alabama Street

This recovery residence in Indianapolis houses men and women together as part of a program built around shared responsibility for the property itself. Pathway to Recovery's model transforms formerly vacant, boarded-up buildings into substance-free housing, and residents help sustain the program financially and physically once they are further along in recovery.

A Peer-Driven Model of Recovery Housing

Pathway to Recovery runs its six programs with only four full-time staff, relying heavily on program graduates who return as volunteers and peer support for newer residents. Someone moving into the Alabama Street house is joining a pipeline where the person managing intake may well have gone through the same program.

From Entry-Level Housing to Permanent Stability

Pathway's continuum runs from a 24-bed entry-level program for people arriving with almost nothing to substance-free permanent housing at the far end. The Alabama Street address sits inside that broader system, meaning a resident who needs a different level of structure later has somewhere else in the same organization to go.

Recovery Housing in Marion County

Indianapolis is the state capital and the seat of Marion County, and it carries the largest concentration of treatment providers, courts and public transit in the state. A coed sober house here draws residents from smaller Indiana counties with fewer housing options of their own.

ABOUT US Pathway was the result of a task force created to look at the needs of the homeless in Indianapolis. The task force discovered that homeless individuals suffering from an addiction and mental illness were the most at risk undeserved group within our city's homeless population. They were left to advocate and case manage for themselves within a fragmented service delivery system. We had mental health programs for the mentally ill and we had substance abuse programs for the addicted, but we didn't have anything for those who suffered from both. These individuals were recycled through jails, missions, hospitals, psychiatric units and other institutions.stuck in a perpetual cycle of chronic homelessness. Pathway was created to address this need.