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About this Sober House

Live Free Women's Sober Living House is a women's recovery residence on Kelley Street in Manchester, New Hampshire, in Hillsborough County. Live Free Structured Sober Living operates it alongside a men's household at the same Manchester address, and the operation is certified with the New Hampshire Partnership for Recovery Residences.

A Women's Sober Living Home in Manchester

Women in early recovery are often looking for something specific in housing: a household where the other residents are also women, where safety is structural instead of promised, and where a woman rebuilding custody, employment or a health routine is not the only one in the building doing it. A single gender house delivers that by design. Bathrooms and common space belong to one population, house meetings are written for it, and the concerns that come up in them are shared.

Where This Women's Recovery Home Sits in Manchester

Kelley Street is on the city's West Side, a walkable residential grid west of the Merrimack River. Manchester Transit Authority buses connect it to downtown, to the hospitals and to the retail and hospitality employers that hire quickly, which matters in the first months when a car is not yet realistic. Groceries, a pharmacy and meetings are close enough to reach on foot, and that shortens the list of things a resident has to solve before the first paycheck.

What Certification Obliges This Recovery Residence To Do

New Hampshire designates the New Hampshire Partnership for Recovery Residences to certify recovery housing, and certification is a set of commitments a resident can verify. Fees and rules go to an applicant in writing before move-in. A written relapse and discharge policy exists and can be read. A complaint can be raised with someone outside the house. Certified houses are also the only ones the state registry admits, and the registry is the list state funded agencies refer from. In a city with a large and mixed housing stock, that record is what separates a certified women's sober living home from a landlord renting rooms.

Housing and Clinical Care Under One Operator

Live Free runs clinical programming as well as housing, including partial hospitalization and outpatient treatment. A woman stepping down from residential treatment can keep the same organization while the intensity of care drops, and the housing does not change underneath her at the same moment the treatment does. Residents who already have a prescriber and a counselor elsewhere keep them.

Recovery Housing for Hillsborough County Women

Manchester is the seat of Hillsborough County and the largest city in New Hampshire, and women's recovery housing is scarcer statewide than men's. That combination gives a certified women's house in the city a pull well beyond its neighborhood. The courts, Catholic Medical Center, Elliot Hospital, Manchester Community College and the state's densest bus network all sit inside the city, so the obligations that follow someone out of treatment can be met without a car and without leaving the county.