About this Sober House
Woodlake Alberta House is a coed sober living home on Alberta Drive in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in East Baton Rouge Parish. It is one of the transitional living houses operated by Woodlake Transitional Living, the recovery housing arm of a Baton Rouge addiction recovery center, and it takes men and women.
A Coed Sober House on Alberta Drive
Alberta Drive runs off the Perkins Road corridor in south Baton Rouge, close to the LSU campus and inside one of the older built-out parts of the city. The location has a specific advantage for a resident in transition: employment along Perkins Road and Government Street, transit on both corridors, and a heavy concentration of twelve-step meetings within a couple of miles. Someone leaving a treatment episode with no car and no local network can build a week's routine from here.
Transitional Living Attached to a Treatment Provider
Woodlake Transitional Living sits alongside a clinical organization, which makes this a different proposition from a standalone peer-run sober house. Residents can hold housing and outpatient care under one roof organizationally, and step-downs from a higher level of care do not require finding a new provider from scratch. The trade is that the housing carries more program involvement than a purely peer-run house. Anyone comparing options should ask what is required of a resident here and what is simply available.
Coed Recovery Housing and How It Is Structured
The house takes men and women, which is less common in Louisiana recovery housing than single-gender arrangements. Coed housing widens the pool of available beds, and it makes the house's rules about relationships, visitors and sleeping arrangements the thing to ask about first. Operators who run coed houses well have those policies in writing, and the policies are specific.
Certification of Recovery Residences in Louisiana
Louisiana licenses clinical treatment facilities and does not license recovery residences. Certification through the Louisiana Association of Recovery Residences is voluntary, the association is explicit that it is not a licensing authority, and no public directory of certified homes exists. Because the clinical side of an organization like this one does fall under state oversight, it helps to be precise about which entity a claim refers to. Ask whether the license or credential being described belongs to the treatment program or to the house.
Sober Living in Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish
Baton Rouge is the state capital and the seat of East Baton Rouge Parish, and its concentration of courts, hospitals, outpatient providers and entry-level employers is what makes it the default destination for people leaving treatment across the Capital Region. The Nineteenth Judicial District Court, Our Lady of the Lake, Baton Rouge General and Baton Rouge Community College all sit inside the city. Residents arriving from Livingston, Ascension or Iberville Parish generally find that the nearest workable address is in East Baton Rouge Parish.
Woodlake Recovery Homes Across South Louisiana
Woodlake Transitional Living runs houses across Baton Rouge, Livingston Parish and Acadiana, which gives a resident options that a single-house operator cannot offer. A move for a job, a family situation or a change of scene can happen inside the same organization, with the same intake staff and the same expectations. Louisiana's Department of Health maintains the state's directory of licensed treatment providers for anyone who needs the clinical layer alongside the housing.
Woodlake Sober Living was founded to help recovering drug addicts who are just leaving treatment with a safe place to stay.
Most of our clients leaving treatment have no where to go so we provide designated sober living homes, transitional housing locations, and sober living facilities.
Sober Living Homes and Apartments in Baton Rouge
Serving all of Baton Rouge and surrounding areas, we utilize halfway houses and sober living apartments for female and male clients to help with the transition process of leaving our treatment center and returning to society.
We are devoted to providing all recovering drug addicts, regardless of status or background, the absolute best, most affordable, and safest halfway house and sober living apartments in Baton Rouge.
