About this Sober House
Southern Care Trenton House is a men's sober living home on Trenton Avenue in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in East Baton Rouge Parish. Southern Care Sober Living publishes it as one of its three Baton Rouge residences, alongside a men's house on Gebhart Drive and a women's house on Mollylea Drive.
A Men's Sober House on Trenton Avenue
Trenton Avenue lies in south Baton Rouge inside the loop formed by Perkins Road and Government Street, a few minutes from the LSU campus. It is a walkable part of the city by Baton Rouge standards, with sidewalks, small commercial strips and a heavy concentration of twelve-step meetings within a short drive. For a man in his first months out of treatment, the address does real work: hourly employment along Perkins and Government Street is close, and Capital Area Transit System routes cover both corridors.
Individual Bedrooms in a Low-Occupancy Recovery Residence
Southern Care runs its houses at low occupancy and gives residents their own bedrooms. In a state where three and four men to a room is ordinary, that is the most concrete difference on offer. It costs more per week, and what it buys is somewhere to be alone at the end of a shift, room for a sleep schedule that does not match the house, and the privacy to take a call from a sponsor without an audience.
A Sober Living Operator Staffed by People in Recovery
The operator's staff come out of recovery themselves, and the house is run on that footing. Residents keep their own outpatient providers, prescribers and meetings, and they are free to come and go inside a fixed set of house rules. There is no clinical program on site. The house supplies a stable address, housemates who are doing the same work, and consequences that arrive when the rules are broken.
Certification of Sober Houses in Louisiana
Louisiana does not license, register or inspect recovery residences. Certification through the Louisiana Association of Recovery Residences is voluntary and the association publishes no list of the homes that hold it. Because there is nothing to look up, the intake call carries the weight. Ask for the fee schedule and house rules in writing before signing anything, ask what happens after a positive test, and ask who a complaint goes to above the house.
Recovery Housing in the Capital Region
Baton Rouge is the seat of East Baton Rouge Parish and the state capital, which concentrates the services a resident needs into one city: parish court, state probation and health offices, two large hospital systems, the community college and LSU. Men finishing treatment in Ascension, Livingston or West Baton Rouge Parish frequently move into Baton Rouge recovery housing because it is the closest place where a job, a court date and a meeting all fit in one day.
Applying to This Southern Care Sober House
Applications go through Southern Care Sober Living, not the house itself, and a man applying here is also considered for the operator's other men's residence in the city. Louisiana's Department of Health maintains the state directory of licensed treatment and outpatient providers for anyone who needs clinical care running alongside the housing.
