Women's House of Hope Women's Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

The Women's House of Hope is a women's sober living home at 504 East Phillip Avenue in Norfolk, Nebraska, in Madison County. It is listed with the Nebraska Judicial Branch's transitional living network and accepts residents at both of the service tiers the state's probation system uses.

A Women's Recovery Home in Norfolk

East Phillip Avenue runs through central Norfolk, close to the commercial corridor and within reach of the hospital, the community college and the city's employers. Norfolk is compact, and a central address means most of a resident's week is walkable in a region where public transit barely exists.

Women's Sober Living in a Region With Almost None

This is one of very few women's recovery homes in the northeast quadrant of Nebraska. For a woman leaving treatment or custody in one of the farm communities around Norfolk, the alternative is usually a bed in Omaha or Lincoln, two or three hours away from her children, her family and any job she already has. A single-gender house in her own region changes what recovery costs her.

What a Women-Only Recovery Residence Settles

Bathrooms, common space and house meetings are single-gender, and one set of expectations covers everyone living there. For women whose substance use ran alongside abuse or exploitation, that is often the condition on which any placement works at all.

Referrals and Oversight in Madison County

Placements come through probation, parole, problem solving courts and corrections, usually with a voucher and a case manager attached, and the house takes residents at either service tier. Nebraska certifies no recovery residences and keeps no registry, and it has no affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences, so the state probation listing is the external record that exists here. Norfolk is the largest city in Madison County, with the county seat at Madison to the south.