LoSam House Coed Recovery House

About this Recovery House

LoSam House is a certified sober living home in Pendleton, Indiana, in Madison County. It carries Level III designation on Indiana's DMHA Recovery Residence list and is operated by LoSam, on Isla Sorna Avenue in Pendleton.

A Sober House on Isla Sorna Avenue

LoSam House sits in Pendleton, a small Madison County town along the West Fork of the White River. A residential address here puts a resident within a short drive of Anderson, the county seat, and within commuting distance of the Indianapolis metro area to the south, without the cost or pace of living inside either city.

What Level III Designation Establishes in Indiana

Indiana requires state designation only from a house that takes state reimbursement or uses the words recovery residence in its own name, so its absence from the list means nothing about a house that has chosen not to seek it. LoSam House has sought it, and appears at Level III, the tier for structured peer housing without live-in clinical staff, through the Indiana Affiliation of Recovery Residences. That designation commits the house to published fees and rules and to a complaint process a resident can use outside the house itself.

Recovery Housing in Madison County

Anderson, the county seat, sits a short drive north of Pendleton and carries most of Madison County's outpatient treatment providers and court services. Pendleton itself is small enough that residents at LoSam House are likely to know their neighbors, a change of pace for someone coming out of a larger treatment setting or a period of incarceration in a bigger city.

What to Ask Before Applying to LoSam House

Applications go directly to LoSam. The questions worth asking are the ones Level III designation obliges an answer to: what the weekly fee covers, whether a house manager lives on site, how bedrooms are assigned, and what happens if a resident relapses. A designated recovery residence has to put those answers in writing before anyone signs a lease or an agreement.