717 Pleasant Street Coed Sober House

About this Sober House

717 Pleasant Street is a coed sober living home in Worcester, Massachusetts, the seat of Worcester County.

A Coed Sober House on Pleasant Street

This sober house in Worcester houses both men and women in recovery, which typically means separate floors, bathrooms and sleeping areas within one building rather than fully shared space. Pleasant Street runs through one of Worcester's established residential corridors, within reach of the city's bus network and its concentration of outpatient providers.

What Massachusetts Sober House Certification Establishes

Massachusetts leaves certification of sober homes voluntary, and this residence is not currently listed as certified through the Massachusetts Alliance for Sober Housing, the state's NARR affiliate. A certified residence commits to a published code of ethics, discloses its fees and rules in writing before move-in, keeps a written relapse and discharge policy, and accepts outside complaint review. Certification is optional, so its absence here says nothing about how the house is actually run, but it does mean there is less of a public record to check before applying.

Recovery Housing in Worcester and Worcester County

Worcester is the seat of Worcester County and the second-largest city in Massachusetts, with a hospital and outpatient treatment base that serves a wide swath of central Massachusetts. That concentration of services is a large part of why sober housing in the city draws residents from smaller towns throughout the county.

What to Ask Before Moving Into This Worcester Sober House

Applications for this address go directly to the house. The questions worth putting to any uncertified Worcester sober house apply here: what the weekly cost covers, whether a house manager lives on site, how bedrooms and shared space are divided between men and women, and what the discharge process looks like after a relapse.