Blue Mountain Escape - Frederick Street Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Blue Mountain Escape – Frederick Street is a women's recovery home in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, in Cumberland County, licensed specifically to serve pregnant women in recovery.

A Recovery House for Pregnant Women

Pennsylvania's licensing records list this address as serving pregnant women, a population most recovery housing is not equipped or licensed to take. Housing built around that population has to account for prenatal appointments and medical needs that a standard women's sober house does not plan around, and the license itself is confirmation that the state has reviewed the house on that basis.

A Women's Sober House on Frederick Street

Frederick Street sits in a residential section of Mechanicsburg, a Cumberland County borough with its own downtown and a short commute to Carlisle and Harrisburg.

A Nonprofit Operator Licensed Under Act 59

Blue Mountain Escape runs the Frederick Street house as a nonprofit, and the address is licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs under Act 59 of 2017. Licensure in Pennsylvania is voluntary, which makes a specialized license for pregnant women a deliberate choice by the operator rather than a default status.

Cumberland County's Recovery Housing Network

This is one of seven houses Blue Mountain Escape licenses across Cumberland and Dauphin counties, and the only one in the family serving pregnant women specifically. The operator's other addresses house men and women separately in Mechanicsburg, Carlisle, New Cumberland and Harrisburg.