About this Recovery Home
New Phoebe House is a women's sober living home in Tacoma, Washington, in Pierce County, run by the New Phoebe House Association.
A Women's Recovery Home in Tacoma
New Phoebe House serves women rebuilding their lives after addiction, with a single-gender household that keeps its rules, meetings and shared space focused on one population. The organization describes its work as empowering women and their children through stable housing and community support.
Housing Built Around Women and Their Children
The program is structured to keep mothers and their children together during recovery instead of treating parenting as a barrier to housing, a model that distinguishes it from sober living aimed only at individuals. That approach reflects the organization's stated purpose of helping women regain stability for themselves and their families at the same time.
A Long-Standing Tacoma Nonprofit
New Phoebe House has operated as a nonprofit serving women in Tacoma for years, drawing coverage in local press for its work supporting women and children through the housing instability that often follows addiction. That track record gives residents and referring providers a known, community-rooted option instead of a newly formed program.
Recovery Housing in Pierce County
Tacoma is the seat of Pierce County and the largest city in the South Sound, with a full range of outpatient treatment providers, family services and public transit that a resident can reach without leaving the city. That concentration of services is part of what makes Tacoma a practical base for a mother working on recovery while caring for children.
Reaching New Phoebe House
Applications go through the New Phoebe House Association directly. Because the program centers on women and children together, intake typically covers both a resident's recovery needs and her children's.
Our New Phoebe sober Living House for women and children- Tacoma, WA
Holistic Recovery for Mothers is a treatment program specifically tailored to mothers with young children.
The “Ideal Phoebe†is from the City of Tacoma or Pierce County, is experiencing literal homelessness or fleeing domestic violence, has issues with chemical dependence, and has her children with her or is trying to reunite with children under the age of seven. Due to the layout of the house, we can only accommodate up to two children per mother. She must be an eager learner, desire to get clean and sober, to accept feedback, and to change.
Our Mission:
Through housing, services, support, and treatment, we serve Pierce County mothers and children impacted by chemical dependency, homelessness, and trauma. We help mothers achieve and maintain safe reunification through clean and sober living, healing, and self-sufficiency.
In 2002, Pierce County was experiencing a high incidence of methamphetamine labs, production, and usage. Many young people were exposed to methamphetamine (many times by their parents) and its highly addictive properties. Young women with children developed chemical addictions. Children were removed or put in foster care because the mother was unable to care for her children.
In many instances, the women experienced homelessness or incarceration. As a result of this cycle, they needed a place to recover… when others had given up on them.
A group of concerned citizens banned together with the City of Tacoma and Pierce County to address this need and New Phoebe House Association opened its doors in December 2002, and has been serving women at full capacity ever since.
Although today the challenge of methamphetamine addiction continues, we also serve women with addictions to other chemicals, including alcohol and crack cocaine. The residents of today are, in many cases, the children of the early meth addicts in our area.
