About this Recovery House
Kacie's House is a certified women's sober living home on West Lincoln Highway in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, in Chester County. It has been licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs since October 2022 and is the women's residence of a two-house twelve-step program.
A Women's Sober House on West Lincoln Highway
Women in recovery live here. West Lincoln Highway is the old Lincoln Highway corridor running west out of Coatesville, a mixed stretch of houses, small businesses and services that gives residents somewhere to walk to and a bus route to use. Keeping the house women only means one written policy covers the household, shared space serves one population, and the women in it are working through comparable ground at the same time. For a woman coming out of treatment or out of the county jail, that predictability is most of the value of a certified recovery residence.
What a DDAP License Establishes for This Recovery House
The Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs licenses recovery houses under Act 59 of 2017, and this residence has held a license at full status since October 2022 with a current inspection on file. Licensure is voluntary in Pennsylvania. A licensed house accepts state inspection, has to give residents a written agreement, and can be the subject of a complaint that someone outside the house reviews. The state maintains a public lookup of licensed recovery housing, which means a family member in another state can verify the status of this address without taking anyone's word for it.
Certification Through the Pennsylvania Alliance of Recovery Residences
The house is also certified by the Pennsylvania Alliance of Recovery Residences, the state's affiliate of the national recovery residence standard. Certification adds commitments a license does not: a published code of ethics, disclosure of fees and house rules in writing before move-in, a documented relapse and discharge policy, and peer review from outside the operator. Holding a license and certification together is uncommon in this state, where most recovery houses hold neither, and it gives a prospective resident two independent records to check.
Coatesville Recovery Housing and the Lincoln Highway Corridor
Coatesville is a city of roughly thirteen thousand and the service center for western Chester County. The Coatesville VA Medical Center sits in the city, Amtrak's Keystone Service stops downtown, and the SEPTA regional rail line terminates just east at Thorndale, putting Philadelphia within a rail ride and Lancaster within reach in the other direction. West Chester, the county seat, is about fifteen miles east along the same highway and holds the courthouse and much of the county's outpatient treatment. Chester County recovery housing clusters along this corridor, which makes a Coatesville address one of the few in the county that reaches work, court and treatment without a car.
A Women's Recovery Home in a Two-House Program
Kacie's House is the women's side of a program that also runs a men's recovery residence on Buck Run Road in East Fallowfield, a few miles southwest. Both are licensed, both are certified, and both operate on a twelve-step model built around mutual support and accountability. The two houses stay separate households, so house rules, meetings and shared space are written for one population, and a woman applying here is not the only woman in a mixed building.
Applying to This Chester County Sober Living Home
Applications go through the operator, a nonprofit that has run recovery housing in the county since 2017. Certification obliges the house to answer certain questions in writing, so ask for them: the weekly fee and what it covers, the house rules, the relapse and discharge policy, and how a complaint is escalated. Beyond that, ask whether a house manager is on site overnight, how rooms are assigned, whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted, and whether children may visit.
