About this Recovery Home
Willow Grove is a certified women's recovery residence in White River Junction, Vermont, in Windsor County, operated by Second Wind Foundation. It is a family-style, substance-free home where women in recovery can have their children living with them, and residents work or volunteer and pay a modest fee for the services attached to the housing.
A Women's Recovery Home That Takes Children
A woman leaving treatment with kids usually faces two housing problems at once, and most recovery residences solve only one of them. This one takes both. Children live in the house with their mothers, which means a resident practises the routine she will need in her own apartment from the first week instead of after discharge. Admission requires a minimum of thirty days of sobriety, and the stay runs six to twelve months. The street address is not published, and placement runs through the operator.
What Certification Establishes for This Recovery Residence
The residence is certified by the Vermont Alliance for Recovery Residences. Certification obliges the house to a code of ethics, to written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, to a documented relapse and discharge policy, and to an annual onsite inspection with grievances reviewed from outside. Vermont licenses no recovery residences, so certification is the only formal standing available, and it is voluntary.
What Happens After a Relapse in This Sober House
The operator has stated its policy plainly in public testimony: the house is not equipped to provide clinical services to someone who has relapsed, so it holds a bed for a set period while the person accesses treatment or stabilization elsewhere and recommits to recovery. Knowing that in advance is more useful to a woman weighing this address than any reassurance, because it answers the question she is most afraid to ask.
Recovery Housing in the Upper Valley
White River Junction is a village in the town of Hartford, and although Woodstock is the shire town of Windsor County, Hartford holds the population and the infrastructure. Interstates 89 and 91 meet here, Amtrak stops here, the fare-free Advance Transit bus network runs through, the White River Junction VA Medical Center sits in the village, and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is a short drive across the river in New Hampshire. A resident without a car can still reach an appointment, a job and a school.
Employment Support at This White River Junction Recovery Home
Staff work with residents on career goals with an eye on wages and benefits, on the reasoning that a durable job outlasts a stopgap. The operator's recovery center sits nearby and is open seven days a week at no cost, so a resident's peer support is walking distance from where she sleeps.
