Herkey House - South Prince Street Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Herkey House – South Prince Street is a sober house in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Herkey House on South Prince Street is a women's sober living home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in Lancaster County. It is licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs and is one of four Herkey Houses addresses in the city.

A Women's Sober House on South Prince Street

This sober living home serves women only, which means the house meeting, the common rooms and the accountability that comes from living alongside other people in early recovery all run inside one gender. South Prince Street runs through a residential stretch of Lancaster within walking distance of the city's downtown grid.

Why Herkey Houses Carries This Name

Brothers Peter Fitzgerald and Robert Ramos started Herkey Houses after losing their cousin Jimmy Herkey to a combination of alcohol and prescription medication in 2017. Naming the company for him turned a family loss into a mission the brothers apply to every address they run, this South Prince Street house included, and it is the reason admissions questions for the whole company tend to go through Fitzgerald personally.

What a DDAP License Confirms in Lancaster

A Pennsylvania recovery house license under Act 59 of 2017 is voluntary, so its presence says something: the house has been inspected by the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs and remains answerable to the department going forward. Vanderburgh House's guide to Pennsylvania recovery house licensing covers what that process involves.

Recovery Housing in Lancaster County

Lancaster is the county seat and the commercial hub of the surrounding county, with courts, outpatient providers and a public bus network that reaches most of the city without a car. A woman moving into recovery housing here is landing in a city built to handle the appointments and job search that early sobriety usually requires.