Westminster Homes - 601 Westminster Street Men's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Westminster Homes – 601 Westminster Street is a men's sober living home in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in Lehigh County, one of two Westminster Homes addresses on this street.

The Second Westminster Street House

A companion men's house sits further down the block at 624 Westminster Street, and both operate under the same rules and the same Executive Director. Two houses on one street let the operator move a resident between them without disrupting a job, a meeting schedule or a bus route.

Weekly Obligations Beyond Sobriety

Residents here volunteer between two and six hours a week, with the exact figure set by whether they are employed, and are expected to secure a sponsor within their first four weeks. Those requirements sit alongside the standard house meeting, community dinner and chore rotation every Westminster Homes address runs.

Act 59 Licensure and State Oversight

The Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs licenses this address as a recovery house under Act 59 of 2017, a status that requires a site inspection and continued compliance with the department's standards. Pennsylvania licensure remains voluntary, so a licensed house has opted into that oversight.

Medication and Prescriptions

Residents on a prescribed medication cannot stop it on their own; any change requires physician authorization, and the house separately prohibits stimulants, narcotics, sedatives and benzodiazepines outside a documented prescription. That distinction matters to anyone weighing a sober house against a program with a blanket medication ban.

Westminster Street in Allentown's Housing Landscape

This stretch of Westminster Street sits inside Allentown, the seat of Lehigh County, within LANTA bus range of downtown employers and the county's outpatient treatment network.