About this Recovery House
Pathways Sober Living, LLC - Womens 36#3 is a women's sober house in Kiel, Wisconsin, in Manitowoc County, registered for four residents. It is one of several small women's houses the operator runs in the city, all of them entered on the Wisconsin recovery residence registry in June 2026.
A Four-Bed Women's Sober House
Small women's recovery housing is scarce in eastern Wisconsin, and four beds is about as small as a registered house gets while still functioning as a peer setting. Three other women share the kitchen, the schedule and the rent obligation. That closeness is the mechanism: in a house this size there is no bystander position, and a woman who stops going to work or stops going to meetings is noticed by everyone in the building within a day.
Women's Recovery Housing in a Cluster of Small Houses
The operator's approach in Kiel is a group of small single-gender households instead of a single large residence. For women, that design has a specific benefit. A woman who needs to move out of one household for reasons that have nothing to do with her recovery, a personality clash, a schedule conflict, a roommate who relapsed, can be moved into another without being discharged, without leaving the county, and without explaining herself to a new organization from the beginning.
Medication-Assisted Recovery Is Accepted
The house records on the state registry that residents taking medication for opioid use disorder are accepted. Women on buprenorphine or methadone routinely encounter recovery housing that will not take the prescription, and the search takes longer for them than the raw bed counts suggest. A written policy in a public record is what turns that from a phone call into a fact.
Kiel, Manitowoc County and the Surrounding Region
Kiel is a small city on the Sheboygan River at the Manitowoc and Calumet county line. Manitowoc is the county seat, northeast on Lake Michigan; Sheboygan sits southeast, Fond du Lac west and Appleton northwest, each about an hour away. Women coming out of treatment in any of those four cities often find that the nearest women's recovery bed at a small scale is here. The town has no bus service, so employment within walking distance or a reliable ride is part of what makes a placement work.
What Wisconsin Registration Does and Does Not Establish
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services recovery residence registry was created by 2019 Wisconsin Act 120. It is voluntary and self-attested, and the state does not license, inspect, certify or endorse anything on it. Wisconsin's only certification for recovery residences comes separately from the Wisconsin Association of Sober Housing, the state's NARR affiliate, which requires a code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, and a complaint process outside the house. A family comparing Wisconsin options should be clear about which of the two any given claim refers to.
Arranging a Placement
No street address is published for recovery residences in Wisconsin, so placement is arranged with the operator. The questions to settle before agreeing: availability, the weekly fee and what it covers, deposit terms in writing, whether the bedroom is shared, curfew and guest rules, the expectation for daytime work or programming, and what a relapse triggers.
