EmpowerWorks 256 Recovery House Men's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

EmpowerWorks 256 Recovery House is a men's sober living home on New Street in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in Northampton County.

A Men's Recovery House on New Street

This sober house in Bethlehem serves men in recovery. North New Street runs through a residential section of the city within reach of downtown Bethlehem, where LANTA bus routes, outpatient providers and the Lehigh Valley's larger job market are all a short ride away.

What Licensure Under Act 59 Means Here

Pennsylvania licenses recovery houses through the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs under Act 59 of 2017, and the program is voluntary statewide. A licensed house has passed a state inspection and meets staffing and safety standards that an unlicensed rooming arrangement never has to meet, which is what separates a licensed recovery house from a landlord renting rooms to people in early sobriety. The Pennsylvania Alliance of Recovery Residences, the state's NARR affiliate, runs a separate voluntary certification alongside DDAP licensure, though EmpowerWorks Recovery Houses has not published a certification claim for this address.

Recovery Housing in the Bethlehem Area

Bethlehem is one of the three cities anchoring the Lehigh Valley, alongside Allentown and Easton, and it holds a concentration of outpatient behavioral health providers and employers inside Northampton County. A men's recovery house in Bethlehem puts residents within reach of that network without requiring a move to Allentown.

EmpowerWorks' Approach to Recovery Housing

EmpowerWorks Recovery Houses runs this residence as licensed recovery housing for adult men. Applications go directly to the operator, and the questions worth asking before moving in are the ones licensure obliges an answer to: what the weekly fee covers, whether a house manager lives on site, and how the house handles a relapse.