About this Recovery House
Stop and Surrender - Huntingdon Street is a coed recovery residence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia County. The address belongs to Stop and Surrender Inc., a licensed drug and alcohol services provider that runs its recovery housing network under the name Wayne Avenue Ministries.
A Coed Recovery Residence on Huntingdon Street
This residence sits in North Philadelphia, the same part of the city where Stop and Surrender runs its outpatient clinical program. That overlap means a resident can keep a treatment appointment and come home to the same neighborhood without adding a commute to the day.
Wayne Avenue Ministries and the OAS-Licensed Recovery Houses
Stop and Surrender operates its recovery housing under the name Wayne Avenue Ministries, which lists a small network of houses under Office of Addiction Services licensure: a large men's house, a small men's house, a women's house, a house for LGBTQIA+ residents, and a low-demand women's house. Running several houses under one license and one intake process keeps admissions and house rules consistent from one address to the next.
Support for Medication-Assisted Recovery
Stop and Surrender's clinical program offers Vivitrol, an injectable medication that treats alcohol dependence and helps prevent an opioid relapse after detox. Because the same organization runs both the outpatient clinic and the recovery houses, a resident already in its care can continue that treatment without switching providers or losing housing over a prescribed medication.
What Pennsylvania Recovery Housing Certification Establishes
Beyond OAS licensure, Pennsylvania recovery residences can pursue certification through the Pennsylvania Alliance of Recovery Residences, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. That certification commits a house to a published code of ethics, disclosed fees and rules, a written discharge policy, and an outside complaint process. This guide to certifying a Pennsylvania recovery residence explains what that involves.
Recovery Housing in North Philadelphia
North Philadelphia carries one of the city's highest concentrations of substance use treatment and re-entry services, and Stop and Surrender has built its housing and outpatient programs inside that same footprint. A resident here is close to courts, clinics and the transit lines that connect North Philadelphia to the rest of the city.
Reaching Stop and Surrender in Philadelphia
Admissions run through Stop and Surrender directly. Prospective residents should ask which of the operator's houses they would be placed in, what the house rules require, and how the recovery housing program connects to the organization's outpatient services if ongoing treatment is part of the plan.
Individualized
We understand that each sober living client we work with has their own unique nature and needs. That's why we consider a wide variety of therapeutic strategies when formulating an individual's treatment plan. No two people are alike, and therefore our clients are not subjected to generic or cookie-cutter (not to mention ineffective) treatment plans. Using various combinations of therapeutic interventions has always proven to be the most effective strategy when treating an individual.
The program emphasizes the integration of a sober house individual within the treatment process, and the progress is measured within the context of the group against the group's expectations. It is the group and individual process along with the client that produces positive change. The tension and learning experiences created between the individual and the group members eventually resolve in favor of the individual and this transition is taken as an important measure of readiness to move towards re-integration into the workplace and the larger society.
