About this Sober House
Grace House Sober Living is a women's recovery residence in New Orleans, Louisiana, in Orleans Parish. It is the women's side of Bridge House and Grace House, a New Orleans nonprofit providing substance use disorder treatment for more than 65 years, and it sits at 6321 Stratford Place in the 70131 ZIP. The organization treated 279 women through its long-term residential programs in 2025.
A Women's Recovery Residence on Stratford Place
Stratford Place lies in the 70131 ZIP on the West Bank side of Orleans Parish, across the Mississippi River from the organization's men's campus on Earhart Boulevard. Keeping the two populations on opposite banks is a deliberate arrangement in a program that runs long residential stays. Women in the program are not sharing space, meetings or a schedule with the men's side, and the household they live in is entirely their own. The setting is an ordinary residential one, in a quiet section of the parish reachable from the Westbank Expressway corridor.
Priority Admission for Pregnant Women in This Recovery Home
The organization gives priority admission to pregnant women. That single policy is one of the most useful facts on this listing, because a pregnant woman with a substance use disorder is the applicant most often turned away in recovery housing and the one for whom delay carries the highest cost. Prioritizing her means the program has decided in advance that her application moves to the front, and it means the staff expect to coordinate residential care with prenatal care. A woman calling from a hospital, a jail or a detox bed can ask about that pathway directly.
Grace House and the Bridge House Sober Living Network
Grace House operates under the same nonprofit as Bridge House, which puts a shared administration, a shared clinical approach and a shared referral network behind both. A woman entering here is entering an organization that has run residential programs in New Orleans for over six decades and that treated 279 women in 2025 alone. The organization also runs thrift stores and a used car lot, at 4243 Earhart Boulevard and 7901 Airline Drive, whose proceeds support its work. That funding model is why a nonprofit of this size can hold long-term beds for women arriving with nothing.
What CARF Accreditation Establishes for This Recovery Housing
Bridge House and Grace House holds CARF International accreditation. Because Louisiana has no licensure, registry or mandatory certification for recovery residences, an outside accreditation carries more weight here than it would in a state with a public registry. CARF review examines how a program documents its services, how it tracks outcomes and how it handles complaints and satisfaction from the people it serves. For a woman comparing New Orleans options, or a family doing it from out of state, that is a check performed by somebody other than the organization itself.
Women's Recovery Housing on the West Bank of Orleans Parish
New Orleans is the largest city in Louisiana and coextensive with Orleans Parish, and it holds the region's hospital systems, courts, outpatient providers and the bulk of its residential treatment capacity. Baton Rouge is the state capital, and for a woman on the West Bank the practical reality is that almost everything she needs is on this side of the river or one bridge away. Women's beds in long-term residential programs are the scarcest category in Louisiana recovery housing, and a nonprofit that has held them for six decades is not a small thing in a market this thin.
Reaching Grace House Sober Living
Admission runs through the organization's intake process. Worth asking: how long a residential stay typically lasts, how the program handles pregnancy and prenatal appointments, whether children can be accommodated or visit, what the program costs and what funding applies, whether medication for opioid use disorder is supported, and what housing looks like at discharge. Louisiana's Department of Health maintains statewide treatment and recovery resources for anyone still deciding on a level of care.
The Grace House program is divided into two phases. During the Intensive Therapeutic Phase (first three months) clients attend the following:
Daily: Therapeutic groups
-12 step meetings
-12- step groups
-Meditation
-Exercise
-Journaling
-Weekly: Individual Therapy
-Nutrition group
-Art Therapy
-Drug Education
-Women's Issues group
-Moral Recognition Therapy
-Parenting Class
During the Re-Entry Phase (last three months) clients are required to work full-time, attend schooling full-time or participate in a vocational training program. Clients are provided with educational guidance, employment assistance, independent living skills, and housing assistance.
No client is turned away due to inability to pay. Payment plans are in effect to serve those without income or insurance.
