First Step Recovery Homes - Penny Street Men's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

First Step Recovery Homes – Penny Street is a sober house in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. First Step Recovery Homes runs a men's recovery house on Penny Street in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, in Allegheny County.

A Men's Sober House on Penny Street

This Penny Street address houses men in recovery under a nonprofit organization that has served the McKeesport area for years. It sits within the same stretch of the city as the operator's second men's residence on Olive Street.

What Nonprofit Recovery Housing Means Here

First Step Recovery Homes operates as a nonprofit, which means its housing program answers to a board and to public accountability requirements that a private landlord does not carry. That structure, paired with a state license, gives a family two separate records to check before choosing a house.

Licensure and Public Accountability

Pennsylvania licenses recovery houses through the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs under Act 59 of 2017. Licensure is voluntary, so a licensed nonprofit operator has chosen a state inspection and a set of staffing and safety standards on top of the accountability its nonprofit status already requires.

Recovery Housing in the Mon Valley

McKeesport anchors the Mon Valley section of Allegheny County, along the Monongahela River southeast of Pittsburgh. Outpatient providers, courts and public transit into the city are concentrated in McKeesport itself, which is why recovery housing in this part of the county tends to sit here rather than in the smaller river towns nearby.

Two First Step Homes in McKeesport

First Step Recovery Homes runs this Penny Street house alongside a second men's residence on Olive Street, both in McKeesport. Applications for either address go through the same nonprofit, and a resident who needs to move between them is dealing with one organization throughout.