Summit Avenue Men's Sober House

About this Sober House

61 Summit Avenue is a men's sober living home in Chelsea, Massachusetts, in Suffolk County, operated by Chelsea's House and certified at Level II by the Massachusetts Alliance for Sober Housing.

A Men's Sober House on Summit Avenue

Summit Avenue is one of three Chelsea's House properties in the city of Chelsea, alongside Webster Avenue and Louis Street. Residents share bedrooms, which keeps the weekly cost down and puts everyone within reach of the house manager. Chelsea's compact layout and its Silver Line and bus connections make errands and outpatient appointments possible without a car.

A Curfew and a Weekly Meeting Schedule

Summit Avenue runs on the same structure as the rest of the network: a mandatory house meeting each week, three outside recovery meetings, drug testing twice weekly on a random schedule, and a nightly curfew, earlier on weeknights than on weekends, with no overnight guests.

Level II Certification

The Massachusetts Alliance for Sober Housing certifies this house at Level II, meaning Chelsea's House has agreed to a published code of ethics, disclosed its fees and rules in advance, and accepted an outside complaint process for every house it runs, including this one.

One of Twelve Chelsea's House Properties

The operator, named for longtime recovery figure Robert "Chelsea Bob" Hinckley, runs twelve certified houses across Lynn, East Boston, Chelsea and Malden. A resident at Summit Avenue who eventually wants a change of city keeps the same admissions process and the same house standards.

Suffolk County Recovery Housing

Chelsea is a small, dense Suffolk County city pressed between East Boston and the water, and it now carries three of the twelve Chelsea's House addresses. That cluster gives Suffolk County recovery housing searchers more than one certified option within the same short radius.