Midsouth Sober Living Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Midsouth Sober Living is a women's sober living home in Memphis, Tennessee, in Shelby County, on Peabody Avenue in Midtown. The house is a program of Second Chances Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit that has run recovery housing in Memphis since 2008.

A Women's Sober House in Midtown Memphis

The Peabody Avenue house holds twelve women in shared bedrooms and common living space, with a resident manager living on site who brings personal recovery experience to the role. Midtown puts the house within reach of the neighborhood's pharmacies, grocery stores and outpatient clinics, which matters before a resident has her own transportation sorted out.

Structure Inside This Recovery Residence

In-house recovery meetings happen on a regular schedule, and outside speakers visit periodically to widen what residents hear beyond their own house. Rent is kept affordable by design, since the program's stated purpose is to make sober housing reachable for women regardless of what they can pay when they arrive.

Midsouth Sober Living's Recovery Housing Network

Second Chances Foundation also runs Judicare, a men's supportive living program serving referrals from the Shelby County Drug, Mental Health and Veterans Courts, which makes this women's house one half of a nonprofit that has served the Memphis recovery community since 2008 under founders Andy and Pam Branham.

Recovery Housing in Shelby County

Memphis is the seat of Shelby County and the largest city in West Tennessee, and Midtown sits close to the county's courts, hospitals and outpatient treatment providers. For a woman leaving treatment or incarceration, that concentration of services in one part of the city shortens the list of things she has to solve before she can focus on staying sober.

A State-Funded Nonprofit Sober House

The program operates under a grant contract with the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, and Second Chances Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization. That funding relationship is part of what keeps a Memphis sober house for women accessible on a limited income.