Bridge House and Grace House

About Bridge House and Grace House

Bridge House and Grace House is a New Orleans, Louisiana nonprofit running men's and women's recovery homes in Orleans Parish. It has provided substance use disorder treatment for over 65 years, holds CARF International accreditation, and treated 386 men and 279 women through its long-term residential programs in 2025.

A New Orleans Recovery Housing Provider With Two Campuses

This organization is a treatment provider that houses the people it treats, and the distinction between it and a peer-run sober living operator is worth being clear about. Residents enter a phased residential program with clinical services attached, and the program governs when work and outside contact begin. Someone who already has a job and needs an accountable address is looking for a different kind of house. Someone who has lost the job, the housing and the relationships is looking for this one.

Sixty-Five Years of Residential Recovery Housing

The organization states that for over 65 years its mission has been to provide substance use disorder treatment to people who have lost everything. Longevity of that order is rare in this field and it has practical consequences. Referral relationships with hospitals, courts and detox units are established. Employers in New Orleans know the name. Funders have decades of results to look at. And an organization that has held residential beds through six decades, several recessions and Hurricane Katrina has demonstrated something about durability that no accreditation can capture on its own.

Two Campuses, Men's and Women's Recovery Homes

The organization runs its two populations on separate campuses:

• Bridge House, the men's campus, at 4150 Earhart Boulevard in Mid-City New Orleans.
• Grace House, the women's program, at 6321 Stratford Place on the West Bank side of Orleans Parish.

Splitting the men's and women's programs across the river gives each one an entirely separate household, schedule and staff presence. Grace House also gives priority admission to pregnant women, which is the single most useful admissions policy in the organization's portfolio, because a pregnant applicant is the one most often turned away elsewhere.

CARF Accreditation Across This Sober Living Operator

Bridge House and Grace House holds accreditation from CARF International, which the organization describes as demonstrating a program's quality, transparency and commitment to the satisfaction of the people it serves. Louisiana licenses clinical treatment providers and does not license or register recovery residences at all, so in this state an external accreditation is one of the few checks a family can actually look up. The residential program is delivered in phases at ASAM levels 3.3 and 3.1, followed by a re-entry phase built around employment, vocational training or further education.

Thrift Stores and a Used Car Lot Funding Recovery Housing

The organization runs social enterprises to support its operations: thrift stores and a used car lot, at 4243 Earhart Boulevard and 7901 Airline Drive. That funding model explains how a nonprofit can hold long-term beds for people arriving with no money and no insurance. It also creates something the average provider cannot offer, which is a set of real work environments inside the organization's own orbit for residents moving into the employment phase of the program.

Who These New Orleans Recovery Homes Serve

The mission statement names the population plainly: people who have lost everything. In practice that means residents arriving from detox, from jail, from the street or from a failed outpatient attempt, frequently with no address, no income and no family left willing to take a call. Long stays are the correct response to that situation. A short program returns someone to the same street with the same problems and a clean drug screen. Anyone who needs a light-touch sober house, or who cannot be away from a job for a residential stay, is a poor fit for this level of care.

Referrals and Admission to This Recovery Housing Provider

Admission runs through the organization's own intake. The questions worth putting to the organization itself, as distinct from a single campus, are these: how long the full program runs and what determines a move between phases, what it costs and what funding, sliding scale or charity care applies, whether medication for opioid use disorder is supported through every phase, how pregnancy and prenatal care are coordinated at Grace House, what happens after a relapse inside the program, and what housing a resident walks into on discharge day. Louisiana's Department of Health maintains statewide treatment and recovery resources.