Ahaha Living

About Ahaha Living

Ahava Living is a sober living operator in Groton, Connecticut, providing women's recovery housing in New London County. Its housing appears on the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services roster of supported recovery housing.

A Women's Recovery Housing Provider in Southeastern Connecticut

Ahava Living houses women in recovery and women at risk, working in the Groton and New London area at the mouth of the Thames. Women's recovery housing is the scarcer half of Connecticut's stock, and in the eastern counties it is thinner still. An operator that works only with women is making a choice about who it is equipped to serve, and it shows up in the household, the rules and the questions the operator is prepared to answer about children, safety and pregnancy.

What This Sober Living Operator Sets Out to Do

Ahava is the Hebrew word for love, and the organization frames its work as providing homes. The practical version of that is a stable address, a household of women doing the same work, and expectations that hold when nobody is watching. Clinical care is not part of it. Residents keep their own prescribers and counselors, and the operator's responsibility is the housing.

From a Sober House to Independent Living

Ahava Living points residents toward independent living as the stage that follows structured housing, and naming that stage is more than a slogan. Most recovery housing plans end at the front door of the sober house, and a woman who leaves with nowhere specific to go often finds herself back in the same search a year later. An operator thinking about the next lease is treating the house as one stage in something longer. Anyone applying should ask what support carries across that line and who helps arrange it.

The Region This Recovery Housing Provider Serves

Groton and New London face each other across the Thames and work as one city for practical purposes. The submarine base and the shipyard are on the Groton side. The county seat, the ferry terminal, the rail station and Lawrence and Memorial Hospital are on the New London side. SEAT buses tie the two together and run north to Norwich and the casinos in Ledyard and Montville, which are the largest employers in the region. A woman housed inside that footprint can keep a job, a clinician and a home group without a car.

Reaching This New London County Sober Living Operator

Applications go directly to Ahava Living. Ask how long the organization has housed women in southeastern Connecticut, whether it takes referrals from treatment programs and recovery navigators, how fees and deposits are documented and refunded, what the written relapse and discharge policy says, and how a complaint moves past a house manager. Connecticut certifies recovery residences through the Connecticut Alliance of Recovery Residences, and whether an operator holds that certification for its housing is a fair question to put directly.