A New Direction

About A New Direction

A New Direction is a sober living operator in St. Petersburg, Florida, running separate men's and women's recovery residences in Pinellas County. The organization operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and staffs its houses around the clock, with more coverage than a single house manager alone provides.

A Nonprofit Recovery Housing Provider in St. Petersburg

A New Direction is a housing and support organization, not a clinical treatment center. It supplies staffed housing, structured programming and access to medical and mental health services, while residents keep their own outside prescribers and therapists for anything beyond what the organization provides directly.

Separate Men's and Women's Sober Houses

Two sober houses carry the A New Direction name in St. Petersburg: A New Direction Recovery, a men's residence, and A New Direction Sober House, a women's residence. Keeping the two populations in separate houses means house rules, meetings and staff coverage are built around one gender at a time in each building.

Staffing and Support Services Across Both Houses

Both houses run on twenty-four-hour staffing, twelve-step programming and structured educational groups, and the organization adds medical and mental health services along with free HIV, STD and Hepatitis C testing for residents. That level of staffing is heavier than the peer-managed model many sober homes use, and it stays consistent whether a resident is in the men's house or the women's house.

A CRRA-Credentialed Team

Florida's Certified Recovery Residence Administrator credential, issued by the Florida Certification Board, is a personal credential belonging to the individual who holds it, and A New Direction lists a CRRA-credentialed staff member among its team. That is a narrower and separate claim from a residence certification, but it is a real, verifiable qualification behind who runs the day-to-day operation of both houses.

Serving Pinellas County and the Tampa Bay Area

St. Petersburg sits at the western edge of Tampa Bay, and A New Direction's location gives residents of either house access to outpatient treatment, twelve-step meetings and entry-level employment on both sides of the bay. Pinellas County's recovery infrastructure is dense relative to its size, which is part of why an operator running both a men's and a women's house in the same city can serve a wide range of referrals without relocating anyone far from the county's resources.