Herkey Houses - Pershing Avenue Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Herkey Houses – Pershing Avenue is a women's sober house in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in Lancaster County, operated by Herkey Houses. Pershing Avenue runs through a residential section of the city, and the house is licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs as a recovery house under Act 59 of 2017.

A Women's Sober House on Pershing Avenue

Every resident here is a woman in recovery, which keeps house meetings, shared bathrooms and common areas within one population and one set of expectations. That single-gender structure is standard practice across Pennsylvania recovery housing, and Herkey Houses runs it as a matter of policy at every address it licenses.

Recovery Housing Oversight in Pennsylvania

Licensure under Act 59 means the state has reviewed this house against a set of standards and can revisit that review through inspection. Pennsylvania leaves that licensure voluntary for most recovery houses, so a licensed address has chosen a level of oversight that an unlicensed one has not. Operators who want a second layer of accountability can also pursue certification through Pennsylvania's NARR affiliate, which runs alongside state licensure without replacing it.

Lancaster County's Recovery Housing Network

Lancaster is the county seat and the largest city in Lancaster County, and it carries a concentration of outpatient treatment providers, court services and public transit that smaller towns in the county do not have. A resident at the Pershing Avenue house has access to that network without leaving city limits, which is part of why several recovery housing operators, Herkey Houses among them, concentrate their Lancaster addresses close to downtown.

One of Several Herkey Houses Addresses

Herkey Houses licenses more than one recovery house in Lancaster, in addition to houses it runs in York, Harrisburg and Lebanon. A resident who needs to move between addresses, whether for a different house culture or a different location within the county, can do so within the same organization instead of starting over with a new provider.