Libertae Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Libertae is a women's recovery residence in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, in Bucks County. It is licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs and has provided residential addiction treatment for women since 1973.

A Women's Recovery Residence in Bensalem

This Bensalem recovery residence serves adult women exclusively, on a campus that has grown from a single farmhouse housing ten residents into a multi-building property along Bensalem Boulevard. Bucks County's largest township surrounds the campus, putting residents within reach of Philadelphia's northeastern suburbs without being inside the city itself.

Gender-Informed Recovery Housing Since 1973

Libertae was founded to address a shortage of addiction treatment built specifically for women, following a gender-informed model developed through the National Institute on Drug Abuse. That founding mission still shapes who the organization prioritizes today: pregnant women, women who inject drugs, and overdose survivors are named specifically among the populations it serves.

Family-Centered Recovery Housing for Mothers and Children

Libertae runs its housing with on-site childcare, so a mother in early recovery does not have to choose between treatment and custody of her children. That combination, residential treatment paired with family support, is unusual among Pennsylvania recovery residences and is central to how Libertae describes its own program.

What DDAP Recovery House Licensure Confirms

Libertae holds licensure from the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs across multiple levels of care, including long-term residential and halfway house services. Holding a license at every level it operates means the organization has been inspected and reviewed across its full continuum of care, not just once. Pennsylvania's Pennsylvania Alliance of Recovery Residences offers a separate, voluntary certification track alongside state licensing.

Bucks County's Recovery Housing Network

Bensalem sits in lower Bucks County, close to the Philadelphia and Montgomery County lines, and Libertae's campus is one of the county's longest-running women's recovery programs. Its nonprofit status and decades of continuous operation give it a track record few recovery residences in the region can match.