WisHope Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Lawnsdale House is a certified sober living home in New Berlin, Wisconsin, in Waukesha County, operated by WisHope.

A Certified Sober House in New Berlin

Lawnsdale House holds certification, which in Wisconsin means the house has gone through the Wisconsin Association of Sober Housing, the state's National Alliance for Recovery Residences affiliate. That process is voluntary, and a house that completes it has agreed in writing to a code of ethics, disclosed its fees and rules before move-in, and accepted outside review of complaints. The certified capacity here is twelve residents, at NARR Level II.

What WASH Certification Actually Checks

Certification through the Wisconsin Association of Sober Housing does not grade a house on comfort or amenities. It confirms a specific set of commitments: a written relapse and discharge policy, disclosed costs, and a complaint process that runs outside the house itself. For a resident or a family comparing options in Waukesha County, that record is the one piece of this house's operation that can be verified instead of taken on faith.

WisHope as the Operator

WisHope is a peer-run recovery community organization based in Waukesha that has operated since 2016, and it runs Lawnsdale House alongside four other residences: The Recovery Village, Sunset House, The Lois House and The Farm, all in Waukesha. Certification, admissions and house rules are handled by that one organization instead of being split between a landlord and a separate program, and a resident whose situation changes has four other households inside the same operator.

An Address That Is Not Published

Neither WASH nor the state registry publishes a street address for any Wisconsin recovery residence, and WisHope does not publish one for this house. Placement runs through the operator, so a prospective resident or a referring case manager should expect to confirm the location once an application moves forward.

New Berlin and Waukesha County

New Berlin sits inside Waukesha County, whose seat is the city of Waukesha, and the county carries a meaningful share of the Milwaukee metro area's outpatient treatment and recovery infrastructure. A certified sober house in New Berlin puts a resident close to that network without being inside Milwaukee itself.