About this Sober House
Ladies House is a women's sober living home in West Monroe, Louisiana, in Ouachita Parish, operated by Sober Nest Recovery Homes. It is the women's residence in a group of houses the nonprofit has run in the Monroe area since 2004.
A Women's Sober House in West Monroe
Only women live here. Sober Nest runs coed houses as well, so the choice to keep one residence single gender was deliberate, and it answers a question many women ask first when they call about a sober house. Bathrooms, bedrooms, house meetings and the whole social weather of the household are women only.
What a Single Gender Recovery Home Settles
A women's house removes a set of problems before they start. Nobody has to negotiate a visitor policy across genders. A woman leaving a violent relationship or a residential program is not the only woman in the building. House conversations about children, custody hearings, pregnancy and postpartum recovery happen among people who have been through them. Those are the reasons women's recovery housing fills faster than coed housing in most Louisiana markets, and the reason an open bed in one is worth calling about the day you hear of it.
Sober Nest Recovery Homes in Ouachita Parish
Sober Nest is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a Louisiana charity charter, in operation since 2004. It maintains several houses in West Monroe and Monroe and does not publish a street address for each one, so placement runs through the organization. A woman applying is considered for the residence that has room, and the operator's standards are the same at every address it holds.
Twelve Step Structure in This Sober Living Home
The recovery program is twelve step based: Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous or Celebrate Recovery, with the fellowship left to the resident. Meetings are the spine of the week. Everything else in the house, the chores, the curfew, the expectation that a resident has somewhere to be during the day, exists to keep that spine intact.
Questions for a Women's Recovery Residence in Northeast Louisiana
Louisiana licenses no recovery residences and keeps no registry, so what an applicant can check is what the operator puts in writing. Ask what the weekly fee covers, how many women share a room, whether children can visit or stay, whether a house manager lives on site, and what the policy is on medication for opioid use disorder. Ask also whether the operator holds certification through the Louisiana Association of Recovery Residences, which binds a residence to disclosed fees, a written discharge policy and an outside complaint process.
The Ladies House
-Capacity: 7
-One three-person room
-Two two-person rooms
-Walking distance to meetings and bus line
