CED Fellowship House

About CED Fellowship House Recovery Housing

CED Fellowship House Recovery Housing is a sober living operator in Gadsden, Alabama, serving adult men in Etowah County. Established in 1968, it is one of the longest-running substance use organizations in the state, and it combines recovery housing with counseling, clinical assessment, education and vocational services.

An Alabama Recovery Housing Provider Since 1968

The organization was established to build the educational, cultural and social skills of adult men whose lives had been disrupted by excessive alcohol use, and to help them rehabilitate. That charter is nearly sixty years old and the work has broadened well past it. What tenure buys a resident is institutional memory: staff who have seen thousands of admissions, referral relationships with courts and providers that took decades to build, and an organization likely to still exist when a former resident needs a reference.

A Sober Living Operator That Also Provides Clinical Services

Most recovery housing operators supply housing and send residents elsewhere for care. This one does both. It offers medication assisted therapy for opioid and alcohol use disorders, ASAM assessments, group and individual counseling, and substance use education, alongside its sober living housing. For a man on buprenorphine or methadone, that combination solves the problem that ends placements elsewhere, because he does not have to keep a prescriber across town and hope his house accepts the prescription. Alabama's Department of Mental Health certifies substance use treatment providers in the state.

Education, Work and Transportation From This Recovery Home Operator

The service list is unusually long for a recovery housing organization: adult education classes, vocational rehabilitation, transportation, residential supervision, positive mental attitude sessions, self-help group exposure, and interim services for people waiting on a treatment bed. Transportation and interim services are the two that quietly decide outcomes. A man who cannot get to work loses the job, and a man with nowhere to be between deciding to get help and a bed opening usually never reaches the bed.

Serving Men Across Etowah County and Northeast Alabama

Gadsden is the county seat of Etowah County and the largest city in the Coosa Valley, holding the courthouse, the hospital, the community college and the region's outpatient providers. Men reach this operator from Attalla, Rainbow City, Southside, Boaz and the Sand Mountain towns, and from the rural counties between Birmingham and the Tennessee line where nothing comparable exists. An operator sitting in the county seat keeps court, treatment, work and housing inside one city.