Breaking Chains Recovery Sober Transitional Home

About Breaking Chains Recovery Sober Transitional Home

Breaking Chains Recovery Sober Transitional Home is a sober living operator in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, providing recovery housing in Sheboygan County. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, approved in September 2025, and it grew out of a peer support and recovery community effort started by the Lemahieu family in the city.

A Sheboygan Recovery Housing Provider

This is a housing and peer support organization. Its stated work is helping people break free from addiction through peer support, community connection and sober living resources, and residential housing is the newest piece of it. Clinical treatment comes from providers elsewhere in the county. What the operator supplies is a stable address, a household of people in the same position, and the connective tissue between a resident and the recovery community already meeting in Sheboygan. That division sets the expectation correctly for anyone deciding where to apply: this is somewhere to live while treatment happens somewhere else.

Public Records Behind This Wisconsin Sober Living Operator

Wisconsin requires no license and no certification to run a recovery residence, so the public record on any operator here is short, and it is worth knowing exactly what is in it. Two entries carry the weight:

1. Federal 501(c)(3) recognition, granted in September 2025, which establishes a real entity with a board, an annual filing obligation and public financial disclosure.
2. Listing on the Wisconsin Department of Health Services recovery residence registry, which publishes the operator's name, county, maximum occupancy and medication policy, and makes the housing eligible for referrals under the statute that created the registry.

Neither is an inspection and neither is certification. Together they mean the operator has attached its legal identity to what it publishes, which is more than a good deal of Wisconsin recovery housing has done.

Women's Sober Houses in Sheboygan County

The operator houses women. Running single-gender recovery housing settles house rules, sleeping arrangements and shared space before an applicant ever calls, and it lets the whole program be written for one population. In a county where beds for women in recovery are scarce, that focus is the organization's stated reason for adding housing in the first place.

Where This Sober Living Operator Works

The footprint is Sheboygan and the county around it. Sheboygan is the county seat and the largest city on the lakeshore between Milwaukee and Green Bay, and it holds the courthouse, the hospital, the bus routes and the entry-level employment a resident coming out of treatment needs to reach at the same time. People in Plymouth, Sheboygan Falls, Kohler and the surrounding townships look to the city for all of it. An operator working only inside that county is a short drive from every referral source it depends on and every neighbor it answers to.

Applying to This Sheboygan Sober Living Operator

Applications go directly to the operator, and at the organization level the useful questions differ from the ones about a particular address: how long it has housed residents in Sheboygan County, whether it takes referrals from treatment providers, the drug court and county programs, how fees and deposits are documented and returned, and how a complaint gets escalated past a house manager. Wisconsin's only certifying body for recovery residences is the Wisconsin Association of Sober Housing, and its certification is voluntary here, so an applicant is relying on what the operator is willing to put in writing.