About this Recovery Home
Hartford Dismas House is a certified recovery residence in Hartford, Vermont, in Windsor County, operated by Dismas of Vermont. It opened in 2013 as the organization's fourth Vermont house and its first in the Upper Valley, serving people transitioning out of incarceration.
The Upper Valley's Dismas Recovery Home
This house filled a geographic hole. Before it opened, the operator's residences were all in the Burlington area and Rutland, leaving eastern Vermont without a Dismas address. The Upper Valley runs along both sides of the Connecticut River, and a resident here is positioned in a labor market and a service network that crosses the state line daily. The street address is not published, and admission runs through the house team.
Dinners, Volunteers and How This Sober House Runs
Residents share weekday dinners with staff and volunteer cooks from the surrounding communities, and the house holds its own annual celebration and auction, one of three the organization runs. That local fundraising is a signal in itself: a reentry house that draws hundreds of neighbors to a yearly event has a relationship with the town that most transitional housing never builds.
What Certification Establishes for This Recovery Residence
Certification through the Vermont Alliance for Recovery Residences obliges the residence to a code of ethics, to written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, to a written relapse and discharge policy, and to an annual onsite inspection with an external grievance process. Vermont operates no state registry or license for recovery housing, so certification is the whole of the formal record.
Recovery Housing in Hartford and Windsor County
Hartford is the town containing White River Junction, Wilder and Quechee, and it is the transportation crossroads of eastern Vermont where Interstates 89 and 91 meet. Woodstock is the shire town of Windsor County, but Hartford holds the population, the Amtrak station, the White River Junction VA Medical Center and the fare-free Advance Transit bus network. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center sits just across the river in Lebanon, New Hampshire. For a resident rebuilding a work history, that concentration of employers and transit inside one town is the practical case for the address.
Step-Down From This Hartford Recovery Home
The operator runs a resident hub for this house covering career development, transportation, housing, legal help and health, which is a fuller set of navigation supports than most reentry residences publish. Residents who complete their time move toward permanent housing with those connections already made.
