Bethesda Recovery Services

About Bethesda Recovery Services

Bethesda Recovery Services is a sober living operator based in Waycross, Georgia, running women's recovery housing in Ware County since 1996. The organization pairs its housing with a faith-based curriculum it calls 12Gates Recovery.

A Waycross Sober Living Operator Since 1996

Three decades of continuous operation in one Southeast Georgia city is unusual in a field where programs open and close with funding cycles. Bethesda Recovery Services has stayed in Waycross long enough to become a known referral point for local courts, churches and treatment providers, which shows up in how residents typically arrive: through an existing relationship, not a cold search.

Peer, Professional and Pastoral Services

The organization describes its program in three parts: peer accountability among residents, professional services from outside providers, and pastoral care rooted in its own 12Gates Recovery curriculum. Combining all three under one operator, instead of splitting housing, treatment and spiritual care across separate providers, is the model Bethesda has run since it opened.

A Full Year of Structured Recovery

Bethesda's residential track runs a full year, considerably longer than the typical sober living stay, built around completing program phases instead of hitting a lease date. That length is a deliberate design choice for an operator working with women whose recovery history often includes prior short stays that did not hold.

Serving Women in Southeast Georgia

Waycross is the seat of Ware County and the largest city in this corner of Southeast Georgia, giving Bethesda Recovery Services a service area that reaches well beyond the city itself. Women referred from smaller Ware County towns, or from neighboring counties without comparable housing, make up much of who the organization houses.