Charlie's Way Sober Living

About Charlie's Way Sober Living

Charlie's Way Sober Living is a sober living operator running men's recovery houses in Butler, Pennsylvania.

A Three-House Men's Recovery Operator in Butler

Charlie's Way Sober Living, doing business as Charlie's Way & Avenues, keeps all three of its residences in Butler, the seat of Butler County, and each serves adult men exclusively. Running every house in one city lets the operator apply one set of rules and one fee structure without residents having to adjust to a new system if they move between addresses.

Three Houses in Butler

• 571 West Brady Street, for men.
• 205 Mercer Street, for men.
• 218 North Bluff Street, for men.

All three addresses sit within the same section of Butler, which keeps residents close to the same outpatient providers, court obligations and bus routes no matter which house they are assigned to.

Act 59 Licensure Among the Operator's Houses

Pennsylvania licenses recovery houses through the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs under Act 59 of 2017, and licensure is voluntary. Charlie's Way & Avenues has carried that license at its Brady Street and Mercer Street addresses. The Pennsylvania Alliance of Recovery Residences runs a separate voluntary certification track alongside DDAP licensure in this state.

Serving Butler County

Butler is the seat of Butler County and the county's principal service center, and it sits close enough to Pittsburgh and Allegheny County to draw residents from both. Charlie's Way Sober Living's concentration in one city means a resident applying to any of its three houses is dealing with a local operator who knows the same courts, providers and employers.

One Application Across Three Addresses

Applications for any of the three Charlie's Way & Avenues houses go through the operator directly. A resident who needs to change houses, for a different set of housemates or a different level of structure, works with an operator that already knows him.