About this Recovery House
Second Chance Sober Living - Morton Avenue is a coed sober living home in Nashville, Tennessee, in Davidson County. It sits at the center of a recovery community that Second Chance Sober Living has grown over more than ten years, from a single house sheltering six men to fourteen houses and living areas with more than 80 residents.
A Nashville Sober House on Morton Avenue
Morton Avenue runs through south Nashville inside the 37211 postal district, one of the city's larger and more mixed residential areas, well inside the Interstate 440 loop and close to the Nolensville Pike and Nolensville Road corridors where a great deal of the city's entry level hiring happens. The address is also the community's front door: applications, intake and administration are handled from here, so a resident living at this house is closest to the people who run the program.
Twelve Step Recovery Housing and Personal Accountability
The community is built on 12 Step recovery, spiritual growth, personal growth and personal accountability, and it is explicitly centered on God without being tied to a congregation. Residents are deeply involved in 12 Step groups across Nashville, which is a meaningful distinction in a city with meetings running every hour of the day. Living in close proximity is treated as the teaching mechanism. A resident sees the effect of their own choices on people trying to do the same thing in the same building, and the house is organized around that fact.
Men's and Women's Sober Living in One Community
Second Chance Sober Living operates separate men's and women's houses and living areas, so the households themselves are single gender while the wider community includes both. That structure gives a resident single gender space to live in and a much larger fellowship to recover inside. More than 500 people have come through since the community started.
Davidson County Recovery Housing and the Nashville Market
Nashville and Davidson County share a consolidated government, and the city holds the state capital, the criminal courts, the state's largest outpatient sector, Nashville State Community College and a hospitality and healthcare labor market that hires fast. WeGo Public Transit runs the bus network and Interstates 24, 40 and 65 meet here. Davidson County recovery housing carries the largest demand in Middle Tennessee, and a house inside a fourteen property community has more room to place someone than a standalone address does. Tennessee maintains statewide treatment and recovery information through its Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
Applying to This Nashville Recovery Home
Applications are submitted through an online form on the operator's own site. The questions worth asking are the ordinary ones: what the weekly fee is and what it includes, whether a deposit is refundable, how bedrooms are assigned, whether medication for opioid use disorder is permitted, what the expectations are for meetings and employment, and what happens after a relapse. A community of this size can also move a resident between houses, so ask how a transfer works before it is needed.
