Marsh House Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Marsh House is a women's recovery residence in Kansas City, Missouri, operated by New Beginning Sanctuary in Jackson County. Independence is the county seat, and the house sits inside the Missouri half of the metro.

Women's Recovery Housing in the Kansas City Metro

New Beginning Sanctuary runs single-gender homes everywhere it works, and this one houses women. The operator brought a model built in the Ozarks to Kansas City: long stays, leadership on site around the clock, shared meals and house meetings, and residents responsible for their own employment and bills from the first month.

Daily Expectations in This Sober Living Home

Work, pay, volunteer, attend. Access to phones, television, computers and WiFi is limited, and drugs and alcohol carry zero tolerance. Faith-based and secular pathways are both offered, so a resident is not obliged to adopt a spiritual framework she does not hold in order to keep a bed.

Medication-Assisted Recovery and Kansas City Sober Houses

Medication-assisted treatment is part of what this operator supports. For a woman leaving a Kansas City hospital or treatment program on buprenorphine or methadone, a residence that accommodates the prescription means the housing and the medication survive the same move. Plenty of sober living in this metro does not accommodate it, and that single question rules options in or out quickly.

Independence, Jackson County and This Recovery Residence

Jackson County runs court business from Independence and from downtown Kansas City, and the metro's hospitals, community colleges and largest employers are spread across both. That spread makes transit access the deciding factor for most residents. The house address is not published, and applications go through New Beginning Sanctuary.