Aquila of Delaware

About Aquila of Delaware

Aquila of Delaware is a sober living operator in Bear, Delaware, running certified recovery residences across New Castle County. It is a licensed behavioral health provider first, with state licenses for outpatient and residential addiction treatment, and its recovery housing sits at the end of that continuum for people who have finished a program and need a sober address to hold the gains.

A New Castle County Sober Living Operator

Everything Aquila runs sits in northern Delaware, inside the corridor that reaches from Wilmington south through Bear and Middletown and west to Newark. Its licensed treatment sites are on Red Lion Road and Kirkwood Saint George Road in Bear, and the recovery residences sit in the towns around them. Someone finishing treatment at an Aquila program and moving into an Aquila house keeps the same clinicians, the same case manager and the same county. That continuity is the practical argument for choosing a provider that does both jobs.

Licensed Treatment Behind These Recovery Residences

Delaware licenses clinical programs and certifies recovery housing through two separate systems, and this operator appears in both. The state's licensed provider list shows Aquila running outpatient and intensive outpatient services on Red Lion Road in Bear, along with two clinically managed residential programs, the Leona Mae House and the Gary Robinson House. Its comprehensive outpatient program is accredited by CARF. An operator already answerable to the state for clinical care is answerable in the same way for the housing it runs, and a resident can look up both records before applying.

Where Aquila Recovery Homes Are Located

Aquila operates recovery housing at six locations in New Castle County:

• A coed recovery residence on Newport Gap Pike in Wilmington.
• The Healing Place, in Middletown, with fifteen beds for women.
• Sharon's Place, also in Middletown, with eleven beds for men.
• Flamingo I and Flamingo II, two separate Newark residences holding seven and eight beds.
• AV House, in Bear, with eight beds for men.

Middletown and Bear sit in the fastest growing part of Delaware, where warehouse, retail and construction work has followed the Route 1 and Route 13 corridors south from Wilmington. Newark holds the University of Delaware, a deep service economy and the densest bus coverage in the county, which is what a resident without a car actually needs. The spread means a transfer between Aquila houses does not usually mean a new job or a new outpatient provider.

Men's and Women's Sober Houses in New Castle County

Aquila keeps its recovery residences single-gender at the house level. Sharon's Place in Middletown serves men and The Healing Place serves women in the same town. The two Newark houses split the same way, one for men and one for women. AV House in Bear serves men, and the Wilmington residence on Newport Gap Pike is coed. Running the split at the house level settles bathrooms, common space and house meetings before anyone moves in, and it means nobody is the only man or the only woman in the building.

FSARR Certification for Aquila Sober Living

Five of Aquila's recovery residences hold certification from the First State Alliance of Recovery Residences, Delaware's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. Under the Matthew Klosowski Act, FSARR is the only entity the state has approved to certify a recovery residence, so certification is a genuine gate. A certified house publishes a code of ethics, hands an applicant its fees and rules in writing before move-in, keeps a written relapse and discharge policy, and accepts complaints that someone outside the house reviews.

Reaching This Delaware Recovery Housing Provider

Aquila keeps the street addresses of its recovery residences private, and placement is arranged through the organization. The questions worth asking at the operator level are company questions: how long it has housed residents in New Castle County, whether it accepts people who completed treatment elsewhere, whether medication for opioid use disorder is permitted in the houses, what the weekly fee covers and how a deposit is refunded, and how a complaint escalates past the house manager to the operator and then to the certifying body. Delaware's Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health lists Aquila's residences among the publicly funded recovery housing options in the county.