About this Recovery House
Almont House Sober Living is a men's sober living home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in Allegheny County. It stands on Almont Street in Carrick, one of the city's South Hills neighborhoods, and is operated by Pittsburgh Sober Living, which runs seven recovery homes across the southern side of the city. The operator calls its houses three-quarter way houses: independent living with structure attached, for people who have finished treatment and are working toward living on their own.
A Men's Sober House on Almont Street
Residency here is limited to men, and that single restriction answers several practical questions at once. Bathrooms, common space and the weekly house meeting are all single-gender, and one set of expectations covers everyone under the roof. Almont Street is a residential block in Carrick, a few streets off Brownsville Road, which carries the groceries, pharmacies, diners and bus service a resident without a car needs inside walking distance. Laundry, wireless internet and television in the rooms are provided, so a man arriving from treatment with two bags can settle in without buying anything first.
What This Pittsburgh Recovery Home Asks of Residents
Pittsburgh Sober Living publishes the same commitments for every man who moves into this house:
- Total abstinence from alcohol and drugs, with immediate dismissal for using.
- Employment, or volunteering at a management-approved charity for a resident who is disabled.
- Active involvement in a 12-step program, including meeting attendance.
- Attendance at the weekly house meeting, built around a text study from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.
- A curfew, with written exceptions for work.
- Random drug and alcohol testing at the house manager's discretion.
The employment requirement is the clearest statement of what the house is for. Men live here with somewhere to be during the day, and the rest of the structure assumes it.
Medication and Outside Care at This Carrick Sober Living Home
Legally prescribed medication is allowed and has to be taken as prescribed, and sharing, trading or selling it ends a residency. The house is not a treatment center, and the operator says so plainly. Clinical care comes from providers elsewhere in Pittsburgh, and any resident whose counselor recommended outpatient therapy or aftercare is required to complete it while living in the house. For someone leaving inpatient rehab with a discharge plan, that requirement keeps the plan and the address pointed the same direction.
Certification Standards for Pennsylvania Recovery Housing
Pennsylvania oversees recovery housing through two voluntary systems, and knowing what each one covers is useful when comparing addresses in Allegheny County. The Pennsylvania Alliance of Recovery Residences is the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences, and certification through it binds a residence to a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and house rules before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint process that reaches outside the house. Separately, the state licenses recovery houses under Act 59 of 2017. Because participation in both is optional, a Pittsburgh search returns houses inside and outside those systems side by side, and the questions a resident asks carry the weight.
Sober Living in Carrick and the South Hills
Carrick is a dense residential neighborhood inside the Pittsburgh city limits, south of the Monongahela River and built along Brownsville Road. Pittsburgh Regional Transit's 51 route runs that road into downtown Pittsburgh, where the Allegheny County courts, county human services offices and a large share of the region's outpatient providers sit. One bus ride covers a probation appointment, a job interview and a meeting on the same day. Several of the operator's houses are within a short distance of this one, which keeps a resident's neighborhood, bus route and providers unchanged if he moves between them.
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