Interim House Men's Sober House

About this Sober House

Interim House is an eighteen-bed men's sober living home in the Dorchester section of Boston, Massachusetts, in Suffolk County, operating since 1972.

A Men's Recovery Home in Dorchester

Interim House Inc has run this Waldeck Street residence for more than five decades, making it one of the longest continuously operating men's recovery homes in the city. The program is licensed as a long-term residential recovery home built around treatment, with capacity for eighteen residents.

Treatment Approaches Used On Site

Interim House builds its programming around cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, relapse prevention, substance-abuse counseling and twelve-step facilitation, along with brief intervention for men newly arriving in recovery. That range lets the program serve men at different points in early sobriety instead of a single fixed track.

Who the Program Serves

Interim House accepts adult men broadly, including veterans, older adults, transitional-age young adults, people with co-occurring mental health conditions, and men referred through the court system. A house built around that range of referral sources tends to run with more structure and staff oversight than a peer-run sober house.

Dorchester and Suffolk County

Dorchester is Boston's largest neighborhood, with its own dense network of outpatient providers, transit and courts inside Suffolk County. A resident at Interim House can reach treatment appointments, meetings and entry-level work across Boston without leaving the neighborhood for basic services.

Reaching Interim House

Applications and referrals go through Interim House Inc directly. Given the program's licensed, long-term structure, the relevant questions are less about verifying legitimacy and more about fit: what stage of recovery the program is designed for, how long a typical stay runs, and how referrals from courts or other agencies are processed alongside self-referrals.