About this Sober House
Beth's House - Auburn is a co-ed sober living home in Auburn, Maine, in Androscoggin County. The Lewiston nonprofit An Angel's Wing operates it as one of its LGBTQ+ inclusive co-ed residences, and the Maine Association of Recovery Residences certifies it at Level 2.
An LGBTQ+ Inclusive Co-Ed Recovery Residence in Auburn
An Angel's Wing presents its Auburn and Portland homes as LGBTQ+ and co-ed. Most recovery housing in Maine is either a men's house or a women's house, so a co-ed residence is already unusual in this market, and one where being openly LGBTQ+ is unremarkable is scarcer still. For a resident who has had to weigh whether a house is safe to be honest in, that is the first thing this listing settles. Residents live alongside adults of both genders under one set of house expectations.
Level 2 Certification and What It Commits This Recovery Home To
MARR certifies residences one address at a time and publishes the level each holds. Level 2 describes a monitored house: written rules, a manager or senior resident accountable for the household, and clinical services coming from providers outside it. Certification also creates an external check, which carries particular weight in a house serving people who have been pushed out of housing before. A certified residence signs a code of ethics, discloses fees and rules in writing before anyone moves in, keeps a written relapse and discharge policy, and answers to a complaint process that someone outside the house reviews.
Housing and Outpatient Care From One Recovery Housing Provider
An Angel's Wing does more than housing. The nonprofit runs an intensive outpatient program for people living at home, provides medication assisted treatment inside that program, and offers individual substance use and alcohol counseling. It distributes naloxone and harm reduction supplies, helps with treatment placement and the transportation barriers around it, and hosts weekly Nar-Anon groups. For someone living in the Auburn house, housing and clinical support can come from one organization based across the river in Lewiston.
Sober Living in Auburn, the Androscoggin County Seat
Auburn is the seat of Androscoggin County, and Lewiston sits directly across the river; together they make the largest population center in Maine outside greater Portland. The courthouse and county offices are in Auburn, Central Maine Medical Center and most of the area's outpatient providers are in Lewiston, Central Maine Community College is in Auburn, and citylink buses run between the two, so appointments, court dates, classes and shifts are all reachable from one address. An Angel's Wing funds its work through thrift stores and opened its second Auburn store at the Auburn Mall, so the organization behind the house is visible in the city itself.
Applying to This Auburn Recovery Home
Applications go to a particular house, and a telephone screening comes before approval. Residents must be 18 or older and in recovery. The street address of this residence is not published, so it comes with the placement. The questions to ask are the ones certification obliges an answer to: what the fee covers, who is on site and when, how the house handles a relapse, whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted, and how the household handles conflict, which is the question that matters most in a co-ed house.
