First Step Recovery Homes

About First Step Recovery Homes

First Step Recovery Homes is a recovery housing provider in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. First Step Recovery Homes is a nonprofit sober living operator running two men's recovery houses in McKeesport, Pennsylvania.

A Nonprofit Recovery Housing Provider in the Mon Valley

First Step Recovery Homes has worked in McKeesport for years, building a nonprofit housing program for men in recovery in the Mon Valley section of Allegheny County. Nonprofit status means the organization answers to a board and to public accountability requirements that a private, for-profit operator does not carry.

Two McKeesport Houses: Olive Street and Penny Street

• A men's sober house on Olive Street in McKeesport.
• A men's sober house on Penny Street in McKeesport.

Both houses sit inside the same city, and the organization describes its Olive Street address as one of its newer housing complexes, added as the nonprofit expanded capacity for men leaving treatment in the area.

Act 59 Licensure Across the Organization

Pennsylvania licenses recovery houses under Act 59 of 2017 through the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs, and the program is voluntary. First Step Recovery Homes has licensed both of its residences. A separate track, run by the Pennsylvania Alliance of Recovery Residences, offers voluntary certification alongside DDAP licensure for any operator that pursues it.

Serving Allegheny County's Mon Valley Communities

McKeesport sits along the Monongahela River southeast of Pittsburgh, and it holds a disproportionate share of the Mon Valley's outpatient providers, courts and transit connections into the city. First Step Recovery Homes' two houses put residents inside that network without requiring a move into Pittsburgh itself.