Lotus House Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Lotus House is a women's sober living home in Marion, Indiana, in Grant County. It carries Level III designation on the state's DMHA Recovery Residence list and is operated by Family Ark, a nonprofit that lets mothers in recovery live with their own children on site while they receive substance use treatment.

A Women's Sober House Built Around Family Reunification

This sober house in Marion houses women with substance use disorder alongside their children for up to a year, with each family given its own bedroom instead of shared housing. Referrals typically run through a Family Case Manager with the Indiana Department of Child Services, and the program's stated goal is keeping families together, treating housing and reunification as one problem instead of two.

Medication-Assisted Treatment and Clinical Support

Family Ark provides medication for addiction treatment alongside supportive case management at Lotus House, along with attendance at postpartum and well-child visits, safe sleep and CPR education, and parenting groups built on trauma-informed practice. Pairing clinical treatment with housing keeps a mother from having to choose between her recovery plan and her children.

What Level III Designation Establishes

Indiana's DMHA Recovery Residence list designates Lotus House at Level III, the tier for supervised, program-based housing with structured staff involvement. The designation reflects state review of the level of oversight Family Ark provides at this address.

No Cost to Residents

Family Ark covers living expenses at Lotus House, and residents are not required to hold a job during their stay, though vocational support is available. That removes one of the more common barriers to entering a residential recovery program with young children.

Recovery Housing in Grant County

Marion is the seat of Grant County in North Central Indiana, and Lotus House operates there as a satellite location of Family Ark, which is based in Jeffersonville. Referrals draw from the surrounding Grant County child welfare and treatment network as much as from Marion itself.