About this Recovery House
MVP Recovery operates MVP Recovery 17 East 16th Street, a women's sober house in Chester, Pennsylvania, in Delaware County. It is licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs as a recovery house under Act 59 and is operated by MVP Recovery, which has run licensed recovery housing across Delaware and Chester counties since 2014.
Women's Sober Living on 17 East 16th Street
This sober house in Chester serves women in recovery. Chester is the largest city in Delaware County, anchored by Widener University, Crozer-Chester Medical Center, and Subaru Park, home of the Philadelphia Union, on the riverfront. A single-gender household keeps bathrooms, common space, and the weekly house meeting oriented around one population and one set of expectations.
What DDAP Licensure Means for This Sober House
The Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs licenses recovery houses under Act 59 of 2017, and licensure is voluntary in this state, so a licensed house has chosen to operate inside a set of published standards. MVP Recovery is licensed as a recovery house operator, and this residence is one of the homes covered by that license. Licensure does not replace certification by the state's National Alliance for Recovery Residences affiliate, a separate, house-by-house process, but a DDAP license is a real, checkable record that a prospective resident or referring case manager can look up before placing someone.
MVP Recovery's Three-Phase Sober Living Program
MVP Recovery runs its houses on a three-phase program that typically takes nine to twelve months to complete, with outside professional counseling and twelve-step meeting attendance required throughout. The operator also provides recovery coaching, case management, peer support, and employment assistance, pairing the housing with services beyond the address itself. Men and women are housed separately at different locations across the operator's properties, and this women's sober house is one of them.
Support for Medication-Assisted Recovery
MVP Recovery runs a Medicated Supported Recovery track that accepts residents on medication for opioid use disorder, including buprenorphine and methadone. Acceptance is not universal across sober living, and someone who loses housing over a prescribed medication can lose the medication along with it, so a program built to accommodate it keeps a resident's treatment and their address aligned.
Recovery Housing in Delaware County
Chester's riverfront location puts Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Widener University, and SEPTA rail service within reach of most of the city's neighborhoods. MVP Recovery has concentrated its licensed housing in Delaware County and neighboring Chester and Delaware counties, and that regional footprint is part of what a referring provider or a family checks before placing someone here.
