About this Sober House
Haven4Change, Parkside Drive is a women's sober living home in Bowling Green, Kentucky, in Warren County. The house takes in women recovering from substance use along with their children, and it is operated by Haven4Change, a transitional living program based in Bowling Green. The house is built around keeping a mother and her children together while she rebuilds stability.
A Women's Sober Living Home on Parkside Drive
This sober living home in Bowling Green serves women only, and it accepts children living with their mother instead of placing that requirement outside the program. Parkside Drive sits in a residential section of the city, within reach of the services a resident needs day to day: grocery stores, a pharmacy and Bowling Green's public bus routes. For a mother trying to hold a job, get her children to school and keep her own recovery on track, staying inside the city limits removes one layer of logistics.
Recovery Housing for Women and Their Children
Haven4Change describes its work as transitional living for women recovering from substance use and their children, with a structured environment paired with connections to outside services: food assistance, vocational programs, counseling and the kind of case management a family court or custody proceeding often asks about directly. Demonstrating stable housing matters for women working toward reunification with children who are not yet living with them, and a program built around keeping the family unit intact addresses that directly.
What Kentucky's Sober Living Certification Law Requires
Kentucky is one of a small number of states that makes recovery residence certification mandatory. State law bars courts, state agencies and health providers from referring anyone to an uncertified recovery residence, so certification through the Kentucky Recovery Housing Network is what allows a house to receive those referrals at all. Anyone evaluating a Kentucky sober living home should ask directly where a particular address stands with KRHN.
Recovery Homes in Bowling Green and Warren County
Bowling Green is both the largest city in south-central Kentucky and the seat of Warren County, and that combination puts a wide range of resources inside a short drive of Parkside Drive: outpatient treatment providers, the Warren County Justice Center, Western Kentucky University and a labor market anchored by manufacturing and healthcare employers. Women coming out of treatment from smaller towns in south-central Kentucky often find Bowling Green is the nearest city with the full range of family and recovery services in one place.
Applying to This Bowling Green Sober Living Home
Applications go directly to Haven4Change. Because the program is built around mothers and children, the intake questions worth asking go beyond the usual house rules: what documentation a custody or family court proceeding needs from the program, how the house handles school enrollment for children moving in mid-year, and what the weekly structure looks like for a parent balancing work, recovery meetings and a child's schedule.
Haven4Change is for women wanting a drug-free lifestyle.
Haven4Change offers women the opportunity to reunite with their children and demonstrate that they are able to resume custody.
For those who are financially or emotionally bankrupt, they can connect with social services for food stamps, vocational services for job development, and counseling services for their mental and relational problems.
Our goal is to assist these women in becoming productive members of society while living a drug-free lifestyle.
