About this Sober House
Live Free Structured Sober Living - Keene is a coed sober living home on Marlboro Street in Keene, New Hampshire, the seat of Cheshire County. It is one of four New Hampshire houses run by Live Free Structured Sober Living, which also operates men's and women's housing in Manchester.
A Coed Sober House on Marlboro Street
Marlboro Street runs southeast out of downtown Keene toward the Marlborough town line, a mixed residential and commercial stretch within reach of the city center. Keene is compact, which is the practical argument for an address here: downtown, the college, the hospital and the courthouse are all inside a few square miles, and a resident without a car can manage a job, an appointment and an evening meeting on foot or on a short ride. The house accepts men and women, which is less common in New Hampshire recovery housing and depends heavily on written rules and a manager's presence.
Recovery Housing Attached to Clinical Programs
The operator runs partial hospitalization, outpatient treatment and addiction rehabilitation alongside its houses. Someone stepping down from a higher level of care can keep one organization while the intensity of treatment changes, which spares a resident the disruption of moving house and changing providers in the same week. Nobody living here is obliged to use those services. Residents who already have a prescriber and a counselor keep them.
Sober Living in a Small City
Keene has around twenty thousand people and is the only city of consequence in the Monadnock Region. That shapes what recovery housing means here. In Manchester an applicant compares a dozen houses. In Cheshire County the list is short, and the nearest alternative may be an hour away over two lane roads. A house in Keene is often the only option inside reach of the county's courts, its hospital and its employers, so the question for an applicant is less which house than whether this one has a bed.
Recovery Homes in Keene and Cheshire County
Keene is the county seat and holds nearly all of Cheshire County's institutional weight: the superior and circuit courts, Cheshire Medical Center, Keene State College, the county's outpatient providers and its recovery community organization. The city also carries the retail, hospitality and manufacturing jobs that hire people rebuilding a work history. Someone leaving treatment in Winchester, Swanzey or Jaffrey is generally moving toward Keene because that is where all of it is.
Applying to This Keene Sober House
Applications go through the operator, which also runs a men's house on Water Street in Keene and two houses in Manchester. Worth settling first: whether a coed household is the right setting, what the weekly fee covers, whether a manager lives on site, and what happens after a relapse. An applicant who would prefer single gender housing can raise that in the same conversation, since the operator has it.
Live Free Structured Sober Living in Keene, NH has the facility that will set your journey apart. The Keene, NH sober living facility is a 24-bed facility. With 6 beautiful, separate, 2 bedroom apartments you will live in a Sober Home that you can be proud of. Updated kitchens, bathrooms, and large living spaces allow you to feel comfortable in your recovery from drugs and alcohol. They find that if you feel safe in your sober living environment you will feel comfortable doing the sometimes uncomfortable work of healing from addiction.
Keene, NH is very empathic to the current state of the opioid crisis and welcomes sober homes such as Live Free Structured Sober Living in their community. They work with local employers to provide a stable work schedule and environment that is safe and beneficial for those in recovery from Substance Use Disorder.
Downstairs are the offices where they provide support from their staff as well as a large group room. They have outside recovery meetings in Keene, NH come in so all of their sober living residents can meet the local recovery community. Live Free Structured Sober Living Home in Keene, NH wants you to succeed not only in your recovery from addiction but in your life also. A community is a large part of addiction recovery and we want you to be a part of it.
They are proud to be featured in the local paper, The Keene Sentinel.
