Stepping Stones Women's Sober House

About this Sober House

Stepping Stones is a women's sober living home on Wellesley Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in Ramsey County. It operates as an independently run recovery residence serving women rebuilding stability after treatment.

A Women's Sober House on Wellesley Avenue

This sober house in Saint Paul serves women in recovery from a residential property on Wellesley Avenue, in a settled residential stretch of the city's Highland Park area. A single-gender household keeps shared space, house meetings and accountability structured around one population, which is usually the first thing a woman comparing sober living options is trying to confirm.

Recovery Housing Outside the MASH Registry

Minnesota certifies sober homes through the Minnesota Association of Sober Homes on a voluntary basis, and Stepping Stones does not currently appear on that registry. That is common for smaller, independently run houses and is not a reflection of how the house is managed day to day. A prospective resident can ask the operator directly about house rules, staffing and fees.

Recovery Housing in Ramsey County

Saint Paul is the seat of Ramsey County, and Wellesley Avenue sits within reach of the county's outpatient providers, Metro Transit bus routes and human services offices. That proximity matters for a resident managing appointments and early employment without a car.

Applying to Stepping Stones

Applications go directly to the operator of Stepping Stones. Questions worth asking before moving in include how bedrooms are assigned, what the weekly cost covers, and how the house responds to a relapse, since none of it is standardized by an outside certifying body for a house not on the MASH list.

Each Stepping Stones sober house has a dedicated house manager whose responsibility is to ensure the well being of the house occupants. All with at least one year of sobriety, the house managers show a commitment to working a 12-step program in their daily lives and demonstrate through their actions that they can lead by example. Typically having gone through one of the sober houses, house managers encourage house members to talk about what is going on with their lives and recovery and to help house residents to be accountable to one another.