Westminster Homes - 214 8th Street Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Westminster Homes – 214 8th Street is a women's sober living home in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in Lehigh County, licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs to house women with children in recovery.

A Recovery Home for Mothers on 8th Street

Westminster Homes of the Lehigh Valley built this location as the anchor of its Mom and Me Sober Living program, a track built for mothers in recovery who want to keep their children with them during treatment. The operator has said publicly that women with children used to apply to its houses and be turned away for lack of space built for that purpose. This address exists to close that gap.

What DDAP Licensure Confirms for This House

Pennsylvania's Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs licenses this property as a recovery house under Act 59 of 2017, and its records classify the population served here as women with children. Licensure does not by itself describe a program's daily structure, but it does confirm the house passed a state inspection and sits inside a system the department can act on if standards slip.

Wraparound Support for Mothers in Recovery

Westminster Homes of the Lehigh Valley has partnered with the Journeys program to provide wraparound services to mothers housed here, layering case management and family support on top of the sober living structure. For a mother in early recovery, that combination addresses two risks at once: losing sobriety and losing custody.

Allentown as a Base for Family Recovery

Allentown, the seat of Lehigh County and the largest city in the Lehigh Valley, carries the pediatric care, schools and social services a mother rebuilding a household needs close by. Keeping a parent and child in the same city they will eventually settle in permanently is part of what makes a program like this one different from a standard sober house.

Applying to This Allentown Sober Living Home

Applications for this house go through Westminster Homes of the Lehigh Valley directly. Mothers considering it should ask how the Journeys partnership works day to day, what documentation custody or family court requires, and how the house's rules apply differently where a child is present.