VFOR Essex Women Unit 1 Women's Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

VFOR Essex Women Unit 1 is a women's sober living home in Essex Junction, Vermont, in Chittenden County, run by Vermont Foundation of Recovery. The house has four bedrooms and two full bathrooms at Fort Ethan Allen, two of the rooms single and two double, for a household of six women.

A Women's Sober House With Six Residents

One gender restriction settles a great deal for a woman comparing options. Bathrooms, house meetings and common space are hers and her housemates', and one set of expectations covers everyone under the roof. Six is small enough that the household functions like a household. The address is not published, and applications run through the operator.

Certification and What It Obliges a Recovery Residence to Do

This residence holds certification from the Vermont Alliance for Recovery Residences, Vermont's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. Certification requires extensive documentation, an annual onsite inspection and responsiveness to grievances, and it obliges the house to put fees, rules and its relapse and discharge policy in front of an applicant before she signs. That is the checkable part of any listing, and it is the part a family calling from out of state can verify.

Chittenden County Recovery Housing and Its Waiting List

Vermont Foundation of Recovery has said it usually carries thirty to forty prescreened people waiting for a bed statewide, and Chittenden County is where the pressure concentrates. Fort Ethan Allen sits between Essex Junction, Colchester and Winooski, roughly eight miles from Burlington, on transit, near the University of Vermont Medical Center and the county's outpatient providers. A woman who lands a bed here is inside Vermont's largest job market with an address she can hold for a year.

Medication and Daily Expectations at This Essex Junction Recovery Home

Members taking medication prescribed by a licensed medical professional are accepted, including medication for opioid use disorder. The house asks for twenty hours a week of work, volunteering or school, attendance at recovery meetings, and participation in the household. Members who progress have the option of moving into one of the operator's transitional apartments.