About this Sober House
Alcott House is a women's sober living home in Boston, Massachusetts, in Suffolk County. It is one of two residential programs run by Granada House, a nonprofit that has provided recovery housing in Boston since long before Alcott House opened as its newer, women-focused location.
A Women's Residential Program in Boston
Alcott House gives women in recovery a residential treatment program built around a holistic approach, addressing physical, mental and spiritual well-being together. Residents live, work and heal together, and the organization describes an inclusive policy that welcomes women regardless of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability, health or sexual orientation.
Structure Built Around Community
The program's language, residents living, working and healing as a family, reflects a house-level structure where accountability comes from the people a resident lives alongside every day, not only from staff. That peer structure is common to residential recovery programs, and Alcott House builds its daily rhythm around it.
Expanding Granada House to Women
Alcott House opened as an addition to Granada House's long-running men's program, extending an established Boston recovery organization's residential capacity to women for the first time. For a woman comparing options, that history means the house is backed by an organization with an existing track record in the city, not a standalone startup.
Recovery Housing in Suffolk County
Boston is the seat of Suffolk County and the state's largest concentration of outpatient treatment, courts and social services. A women's residential program based in the city puts residents inside that network directly, which matters for anyone coordinating outpatient care, legal appointments or employment alongside residential recovery.
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.
Residents are required to attend five AA or NA meetings per week. They must go on at least one commitment a month with a local AA group. They must have a sponsor, join a local group, and actively participate by having a job within that group.
Once a week, an in-house discussion meeting is held in which the residents are given a chance to talk about issues affecting recovery and life.
Residents are encouraged to have a bank account and save for an apartment for after they leave Alcott Street.
