About this Sober House
Southern Care Mollylea House is a women's sober living home on Mollylea Drive in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in East Baton Rouge Parish. It is the women's residence in Southern Care Sober Living's three-house Baton Rouge portfolio, and the operator runs it at low occupancy with individual bedrooms.
A Women's Sober House on Mollylea Drive
Mollylea Drive sits in the Broadmoor area of east Baton Rouge, off the Florida Boulevard and Goodwood corridors. The neighborhood is residential, built out in the postwar decades, and close to the retail and service employers that hire quickly. Capital Area Transit System routes run the Florida Boulevard corridor, and the East Baton Rouge Parish Library's main branch is a short distance away. A woman without a car can hold a job, get to an appointment and make an evening meeting from this address.
A Women-Only Recovery Residence and Private Rooms
Two things distinguish this house. It serves women only, so the household, the bathrooms and the house meetings belong to one population. And residents get their own bedrooms in a house the operator deliberately keeps under-filled. Women leaving residential treatment or a parish jail often arrive having shared a room with strangers for months, and a door that closes is the first thing they ask about.
Freedom and Rules in This Sober Living Home
Southern Care describes its residents as free to come and go while holding to a fixed foundation of house rules, and its staff are people with their own recovery behind them. Nobody manages a resident's calendar. Nobody supervises her day. What the house guarantees is that the rules mean the same thing on a Tuesday as on a Saturday, and that the person enforcing them has been where she is. Women who need clinical supervision on site should look at a licensed treatment setting instead.
What Certification Establishes for Louisiana Recovery Housing
There is no state license and no state register for a recovery residence in Louisiana. The Louisiana Association of Recovery Residences certifies voluntarily and states that it is not a licensing authority, and it publishes no directory. That absence puts the burden on the applicant, and it also makes the questions simple. A house that produces its fees, its rules and its relapse policy in writing before move-in is doing what certification would require of it.
Women's Recovery Homes in East Baton Rouge Parish
Baton Rouge is the parish seat and the state capital, and women's recovery housing in the Capital Region is scarcer than men's. That imbalance is worth understanding before starting a search: a woman looking for a certified or reputable house in East Baton Rouge Parish is working from a short list, and the houses that do exist fill fast. Outpatient providers, the Nineteenth Judicial District Court, Woman's Hospital and Our Lady of the Lake are all inside the city, so a resident here can keep every obligation without leaving the parish.
Applying Through Southern Care Sober Living
Applications go to the operator, which also runs two men's houses in Baton Rouge. Ask what the weekly rate covers, how the deposit is refunded, how bedrooms are assigned, what the drug testing schedule looks like, and whether prescribed medication for opioid use disorder is accepted. Those five answers separate houses that look identical from the outside.
