About this Sober House
Woodlake Transitional Living House is a coed sober living home on Jefferson Highway in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in East Baton Rouge Parish. The operator publishes this address as its transitional living location, and it serves men and women.
A Coed Sober Living Home on Jefferson Highway
Jefferson Highway runs south and east from Perkins Road through some of the most developed commercial ground in Baton Rouge, and the practical effect is a short distance to almost everything a resident needs. Retail and restaurant employment along the highway hires steadily. Outpatient providers, pharmacies and grocery stores are within a mile in either direction. The Capital Area Transit System covers the corridor. For someone rebuilding a week from nothing, a busy commercial road is an asset.
The Transitional Living Model in Recovery Housing
Transitional living describes a stage more than a building. A resident has completed or is stepping down from clinical care, needs a sober address with rules and housemates, and needs it to hold while work, court obligations or school get re-established. This house is the operator's namesake location for that stage. The expectations are somewhere between a treatment program and an ordinary lease, and the useful question at intake is where exactly on that spectrum this house sits.
Coed Housing and the Policies That Matter
Men and women live here together. In a coed recovery residence the visitor policy, the relationship policy and the bedroom assignment policy carry more weight than in a single-gender house, and all three should be handed over in writing before anyone commits to a move-in date.
How Louisiana Handles Recovery Residence Certification
The state licenses clinical treatment providers and does not license recovery residences. Certification through the Louisiana Association of Recovery Residences is voluntary, the association holds no licensing authority by its own account, and there is no searchable list of certified Louisiana homes. Because this operator has a clinical arm as well as a housing arm, it is worth being specific about which entity any credential belongs to when asking.
Sober Living in the Capital Region
Baton Rouge is the seat of East Baton Rouge Parish and the capital of Louisiana, which concentrates courts, hospitals, treatment providers and entry-level employers into a single city. Residents arriving from Livingston, Ascension, Iberville or the smaller Florida Parishes towns generally find that this is the closest place where a job, a meeting and a court date fit into one day without a car.
Woodlake Recovery Homes Beyond Baton Rouge
The operator maintains houses in Baton Rouge, Denham Springs, Lafayette, New Iberia and Abbeville. A resident who needs to relocate for work or family can do it inside one organization, keeping the same intake staff and the same house standards. Louisiana's Department of Health publishes the state directory of licensed treatment and outpatient providers.
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 nowhere to go so we provide designated sober living homes, transitional housing locations, and sober living facilities.
Sober Living Homes 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.
