The GateHouse - East King Street Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

The GateHouse – East King Street is a women's recovery residence in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in Lancaster County. The GateHouse, a Lancaster addiction treatment and recovery organization, operates the property as a transitional living home for women completing its program.

Transitional Housing for Women on East King Street

This address houses women in recovery, and East King Street sits east of downtown Lancaster in one of the city's older residential corridors. The GateHouse runs its transitional living homes as an extension of its treatment programs, giving residents a structured address after primary treatment ends.

The GateHouse's Role in Lancaster

The GateHouse operates behavioral health treatment and outpatient services from its Lancaster offices, and its transitional living homes, this one among them, house people who have completed treatment and need a structured next step. Housing under an organization that also runs treatment programs gives a resident continuity between clinical care and daily living arrangements.

Licensed as a Pennsylvania Recovery House

This address carries a license from the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs under Act 59 of 2017, the state's recovery house licensing law. Licensure is voluntary in Pennsylvania, and an organization that licenses its transitional living homes has taken on a level of state review most unlicensed rooming arrangements never do.

Lancaster County's Recovery Infrastructure

Lancaster is the seat of Lancaster County, and the concentration of treatment providers, courts and public transit in the city is a large part of why organizations like The GateHouse base multiple transitional homes there. East King Street keeps residents inside that network without a car being a requirement.