Merakey Fresh Start - East Tioga Street Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Merakey Fresh Start – East Tioga Street is a sober house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Merakey Fresh Start on East Tioga Street is a women's sober living home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia County, licensed by the state and operated by Merakey, a Pennsylvania nonprofit behavioral health provider.

A Women's Sober House on East Tioga Street

This residence houses women only, in the Kensington section of Philadelphia along East Tioga Street, a residential corridor a short distance north of Frankford Avenue's commercial strip.

Part of Merakey's Fresh Start Housing

Merakey runs its Fresh Start recovery housing under its Addiction Recovery Services line, and this house is one of five licensed Fresh Start addresses the organization operates in Philadelphia, all reviewed by the state under the same standard.

What DDAP Licensure Confirms

The house is licensed under Act 59 of 2017, meaning the state has reviewed it against its recovery-residence standards, a review that is voluntary and not every Pennsylvania sober house carries it.

Kensington's Recovery Housing Corridor

Kensington has become a center of Philadelphia's addiction treatment and recovery infrastructure, putting outpatient providers, case managers and peer recovery services within a short distance of the house.

A Network of Merakey Housing

Because Merakey operates several Fresh Start houses across Philadelphia, a resident who needs a different set of housemates or a change in setting can raise it with an organization that already runs more than one address.