About this Sober House
Twilight Drive Recovery House is a recovery residence for men in Scarborough, Maine, operated by Volunteers of America Northern New England. It stands in Cumberland County, in what the operator describes as a quiet country setting, and it is a Level III recovery residence providing temporary housing to men with a history of chronic drug and alcohol use.
About Twilight Drive Recovery House
The operator calls it the home where hope lives for men making the difficult journey toward sobriety and who historically have little community support. That last phrase is the clearest statement of what the house is for. It is aimed not simply at men leaving treatment, but at men who arrive without much of a network behind them, which is the group for whom the structure of a recovery residence tends to matter most. The house welcomes men on all pathways of recovery who want to maintain their sobriety, so no single program or method is required as a condition of living there.
Who Twilight Drive Serves
The residence is for men with a history of chronic drug and alcohol use. Its all-pathways position is worth understanding for anyone choosing between recovery residences in southern Maine: some houses are organized around a particular fellowship or approach, while Twilight Drive is framed around the shared goal of maintaining sobriety rather than the route a resident takes to it. The support model is peer recovery based, meaning the household itself, men in recovery living together under a common set of expectations, is the main source of day-to-day support.
House Expectations at Twilight Drive
The published expectations for residents are specific, which is useful when comparing houses. They are:
- A zero tolerance drug and alcohol policy
- A work or school requirement within three weeks of entry
- Two house meetings each week
- Four outside meetings each week
- House chores
Taken together these describe a house built around structure and accountability. The work or school requirement in particular signals what the residence is for: it is a place to rebuild an ordinary working life in early recovery, not a place to wait.
A Level III Recovery Residence Certified by MARR
Twilight Drive Recovery House is a Level III recovery residence and appears on the Maine Association of Recovery Residences register of certified residences, listed under Volunteers of America at Level 3 in Scarborough. MARR's register is the reference point for certification in Maine, and a certified listing is what distinguishes a recovery residence operating to a recognized standard from an uncertified sober house.
Sober Living in Scarborough, Cumberland County
Scarborough is in Cumberland County, Maine's most populous county, on the coast immediately south of Portland. That location gives the house both of the things people usually want and rarely get together: the operator's quiet country setting, and access to the treatment providers, employers and recovery meetings concentrated in the Greater Portland area. For men coming out of treatment in southern Maine, a residence in Scarborough keeps them within the same region as their providers and their support rather than relocating them.
The house is run by Volunteers of America Northern New England, a nonprofit that operates it as the single recovery residence within its recovery services line, alongside a wider set of housing, behavioral health and community programs. Inquiries about a place are handled through the organization, which publishes the house's expectations and its certification status openly, so a prospective resident or a referring worker can see the terms before applying. Because the residence sits inside a larger organization, there is also an operator behind it with long-standing programs in housing, behavioral health and homeless services across the region.
