About this Sober House
Sunrise Place Sober Living is a women's sober living provider on Brighton Avenue in Portland, Maine. The listing sits in Cumberland County, and the Brighton Avenue address is described in housing listings as the organization's main office location, with the identified Sunrise Place residence being a women's house on River Road in South Windham.
Brighton Avenue and the Portland Address
Brighton Avenue is one of Portland's main arterial roads, running west off the peninsula through a mixed stretch of housing, small businesses and clinical offices. The Sunrise Place address there is an office rather than a residence, and it shares the building with Awakenings Recovery Center, an outpatient mental health and substance use clinic that offers drug rehabilitation along with intensive outpatient and outpatient levels of care. Anyone searching the address will find both, and it is useful to know in advance which of the two you are looking at.
Who Sunrise Place Serves
Sunrise Place is women's housing and is listed as such. Women-only recovery housing does something a mixed house cannot, which is why so much of Maine's sober living stock is single-gender. It allows a house to be built around one population, and for many women, particularly those whose substance use has run alongside trauma, that single fact determines whether a placement works at all. Cumberland County carries a good share of the women's listings in this directory, and this is one of them.
The House in South Windham
The residence identified under the Sunrise Place name is on River Road in South Windham. South Windham is a village within the town of Windham, inland from Portland along the Presumpscot River, still inside Cumberland County. It is a quieter setting than the city, on the corridor between Portland and the Sebago Lake region, and it appeals to women who want to stay in the county without living in the middle of it. The practical trade is the usual one for inland Maine: a calmer street, and a greater need to plan transport for work and appointments.
Women's Recovery Housing in Cumberland County
Cumberland County runs from Portland and the Casco Bay coast inland through Windham, Gray and Standish to the Sebago Lake towns, and more of this directory's Maine listings sit there than in any other county. That means a woman looking for a place in the county genuinely has options, and it is worth comparing several. The questions that separate them are consistent: whether the house is certified by the Maine Association of Recovery Residences under the state's voluntary standard, whether it is a residence or part of a treatment program, how much structure the house imposes, and where it sits relative to work, family and services. Sunrise Place answers the first of those as an independent provider with an office in the city and a house outside it.
One further point specific to this listing: because the office and the house are in different towns, an address search will not show you the residence. Anyone assessing the setting should ask about the house itself rather than judging by the Portland address, which is an office on a busy arterial road and tells you nothing useful about where you would actually be living.
Getting in Touch
Because the office and the residence are at different addresses, an inquiry starts with the organization rather than at the house. Anyone considering Sunrise Place should confirm current availability directly, and ask about the South Windham house specifically, before making any plans at all. The Sunrise Place Sober Living operator page in this directory covers the organization; this listing covers the housing itself.
About Our Women's Sober Living Addiction Recovery Residence
House members will be adult alcoholics and addicts who are motivated to continue their recovery, committed to staying sober, and agree to remain active in their recovery program.
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.
