Merakey Fresh Start Foundation 3023 Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Merakey Fresh Start Foundation 3023 is a women's recovery residence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia County, operated under the Merakey Fresh Start Foundation. It is licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs as a recovery house serving adult women.

A Women's Recovery Residence on Frankford Avenue

This recovery residence for adult women sits on Frankford Avenue, one of the long commercial corridors running through Philadelphia's river wards toward Kensington and Frankford proper. The avenue carries SEPTA bus and rail access the length of the corridor, connecting residents to the rest of the city without a car.

Merakey's Footprint in Recovery Housing

Merakey is a large Pennsylvania-based nonprofit provider of behavioral health, intellectual disability and addiction services, operating programs across the state. A residence under the Merakey Fresh Start Foundation name draws on an organization with an established administrative and clinical infrastructure behind a single address.

What DDAP Recovery House Licensure Confirms

Recovery house licensure under Act 59 of 2017, issued by the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs, is voluntary in Pennsylvania. A licensed address has been inspected and keeps written rules and a relapse policy on file, the baseline a prospective resident or referring provider should confirm before a placement. Pennsylvania's Pennsylvania Alliance of Recovery Residences offers a separate, voluntary certification track as well.

Recovery Housing in Philadelphia's Kensington Corridor

Philadelphia is both a city and a county, and the river wards along Frankford Avenue have some of the city's highest concentration of substance use treatment and outreach services. A women's recovery residence in this corridor sits close to that service density.