About this Sober House
Restoration House is a women's sober living residence on Main Street in North Berwick, Maine, in York County. It is one of two houses run by Recovery Maine, which describes its work as state-licensed, abstinence-based housing and substance use disorder treatment at two locations in southern Maine. Restoration House is the women's side of that operation, and the only one of the two in North Berwick.
A Women's House on Main Street
North Berwick is a small inland town in southwestern York County, close to the New Hampshire line, and Main Street is its central spine. A women's house in a town of that size offers something a city address cannot: a quiet setting, a short and legible geography, and enough distance from a previous life for the early months to be genuinely different. It also asks something in return, because rural southern Maine has fewer buses and fewer services than Portland, and a plan for getting to work or appointments is worth having before arrival.
Who Restoration House Is For
The house serves women. It is abstinence-based, which is Recovery Maine's own framing of the program, and the organization pairs it with clinical services rather than leaving treatment to be arranged elsewhere. Women who want housing and treatment through one provider, in one place, are the natural fit. Women who already have an established outside treatment relationship and want housing alone would be comparing this listing against the independent recovery residences elsewhere in this directory, which are a different kind of arrangement.
Support and Oversight at the House
Recovery Maine describes outpatient counseling and DEEP completion-of-treatment services delivered by state-certified clinicians, along with 24-hour monitoring and random screens. That level of oversight sits at the structured end of what recovery housing in Maine looks like. Treatment directories index Restoration House under residential treatment rather than as a stand-alone sober house, which is a fair reflection of the model. For someone leaving detox or a residential stay, that continuity of supervision is often exactly the point.
North Berwick and the York County Recovery Community
York County stretches from Kittery and the New Hampshire border north along the coast toward Portland, taking in Biddeford, Saco and Sanford as well as inland towns like North Berwick, Berwick and South Berwick. Recovery services in the county are spread rather than concentrated, and many people move between towns for meetings, work and appointments. Staying inside York County has practical value for women with children in local schools, a job in the area, or family nearby, and that is one of the reasons a house in a small town continues to matter alongside the larger programs in Cumberland County.
It is also worth being clear about what kind of listing this is. A recovery residence and a residential treatment program are different things, and they suit people at different points. Someone coming directly out of detox or an inpatient stay often needs the closer supervision that a licensed program provides. Someone who has already been stable for a while, working and attending outside treatment, may find the same supervision more than they need. Restoration House sits at the more structured end of that range, and that is the main thing to weigh before applying.
Applying to Restoration House
Applications run through Recovery Maine rather than through the house directly, since housing and treatment come from the same organization. The Recovery Maine operator page in this directory sets out the wider program, the services and the licensing position. Its sibling listing, Innovation House in Saco, is the men's house under the same organization. This page covers Restoration House itself: a women's residence on Main Street in North Berwick, in the southwest corner of York County, Maine.
Restoration Men's Sober Living Recovery House- Maine
Recovery Maine Inc. offers state-licensed, abstinence-based housing at the heart of historic North Berwick, ME called Restoration House. As a newly renovated home, Restoration House has convenient access from all directions and includes full residential amenities including television, free laundry and WiFi. It's located 6 miles away from southern Maine beaches, recreation areas, and walking distance to groceries and dining. With the comfortable environment and great location, residents are able to focus on their recovery. Restoration House is monitored 24 hours by an on-site manager.
As Restoration House is a drug and alcohol free campus, random drug testing is performed to ensure compliance with a strict zero-tolerance drug/alcohol policy.
Sober living homes are group residences for people who are recovering from addiction. In most instances, people who live in sober homes have to follow certain house rules and contribute to the home by doing chores. Most importantly, residents must stay sober throughout their stay in the home.
