Tenacious Grace Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Tenacious Grace is a women's sober living home in Florence, South Carolina, the seat of Florence County. It appears on the female sober living list published by the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services. The address is not published, and placement runs through the operator.

A Women's Sober House in the Pee Dee

Beds for women in northeastern South Carolina are scarce, and most of the region's rural counties have none at all. A women's house in Florence draws from Marion, Dillon, Darlington, Lake City and Kingstree as much as from the city itself, because Florence is where the hospitals, the courts, the colleges and the work are.

Recovery Housing for Women Leaving Custody

Houses on the state supervision agency's list take women whose immediate problem is an address on a release date. That population arrives with a record, no deposit and no rental history, and the operators willing to work with it determine whether someone leaves custody into stable housing or back into the situation she left.

Sober Living in Florence County

Florence holds the county and federal courthouses, MUSC Health Florence Medical Center, Francis Marion University and Florence Darlington Technical College, and the junction of Interstates 95 and 20 brings distribution and retail employment to the city. That density is why women from across the Pee Dee move here to rebuild.

Certification and What It Would Document

The house is not on the certified list maintained by the South Carolina Alliance for Recovery Residences. Certification is voluntary in this state, so absence is not a judgment on the house, and the practical questions are the fee, the rules in writing, the relapse and discharge policy, and how a complaint is raised outside the household.