The Fitz House Recovery House

About this Recovery House

The Fitz House is a certified sober living home in Charleston, South Carolina, in Charleston County, operated by Charleston Recovery Center. It is one of four residences the nonprofit runs in the county and forms part of a continuing care program for people who have completed its long-term residential care. The address is not published.

A Sober House for Residents Stepping Down

Entry here is earned. The operator opens its sober living beds only to people who have completed at least a hundred and twenty days of intensive residential care in its program, so everyone in the house arrives with months of sobriety and a shared history. That produces a household with a very different center of gravity from a house taking direct admissions off a detox unit.

Recovery Housing Inside the City of Charleston

Moving from the organization's wooded property west of the city into a Charleston house is the point of the step down. Residents pick up bus routes, jobs, outpatient appointments and a meeting schedule that runs all day across the peninsula and West Ashley. Independence is tested in the environment where it will eventually have to hold.

What Certification Requires of This Recovery Residence

Certification through the South Carolina Alliance for Recovery Residences obliges the house to publish fees and rules in writing before move-in, keep a written relapse and discharge policy, work under a code of ethics, and accept complaints reviewed outside the household. Certification is granted address by address, and this residence carries it.

Applying to This Charleston Sober Living Home

Contact runs through Charleston Recovery Center. Ask what the continuing care program expects of a resident, what the fee is at this stage, how long people typically stay, and what support exists for the move into a lease afterward.