Willows Recovery Women's Sober House

About this Sober House

Willows Recovery is a certified women's sober house on Manchester Street in Manchester, New Hampshire, in Hillsborough County.

A Women's Sober House on Manchester Street

Willows Recovery serves women in recovery, holding house meetings, bathrooms and shared space to a single gender for every resident living there. Manchester Street runs through the city's core, close to the services a resident is most likely to need in the first months of a program.

What NHPRR Certification Establishes

Willows Recovery is certified through the New Hampshire Partnership for Recovery Residences, the sole agency authorized under RSA 172-B to certify recovery housing in the state. Certification requires disclosed fees and rules and an outside complaint process, and it determines eligibility for the state's Voluntary Recovery House Registry.

Support From Families in Transition's Broader Network

Willows Recovery operates under Families in Transition, a Manchester nonprofit with a long history in housing and homelessness services beyond recovery housing alone. That broader base gives the program access to case management and support services that a standalone sober house typically has to build from scratch.

Recovery Housing in Hillsborough County

Manchester is the seat of Hillsborough County and the state's largest city, and its concentration of outpatient providers, courts and employers is a major reason recovery housing clusters here more than anywhere else in New Hampshire.

What to Ask Before Moving Into This Manchester Sober House

Applications go through Families in Transition. Certification obliges written answers to the standard questions: what the weekly fee covers, how bedrooms are assigned, and what the house's relapse and discharge policy says.