Headrest

About Headrest

Headrest is a recovery housing provider in Lebanon, New Hampshire, running a certified men's recovery residence in Grafton County. It is a long-standing Upper Valley organization whose work spans crisis response, recovery support and housing.

An Upper Valley Recovery Support Organization

Headrest is not primarily a housing company, and that matters to a resident. Housing sits inside a broader organization built around crisis intervention and recovery support in a rural region, which means a person living in the house is connected to a crisis line, peer support and referral relationships that a standalone operator would have to construct from scratch. It also means the housing is not the organization's only source of stability, which in a region with few beds and thin margins is worth something.

Certification Behind This Sober Living Operator

New Hampshire designates the New Hampshire Partnership for Recovery Residences as the sole agency authorized to certify recovery residences, and this operator's Lebanon house appears on its certified list. Certification obliges a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, and an external complaint process, and it is the requirement for the state's Voluntary Recovery House Registry that publicly funded programs refer from. In the Upper Valley, where referrals arrive from hospitals, courts and providers across two states, being on that registry is what keeps the beds reachable.

Where This Recovery Housing Provider Works

Lebanon is the largest city in the Upper Valley, sitting on the Connecticut River across from Vermont. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is in the city and is the largest hospital in New Hampshire; the district court, the region's employers and its outpatient providers are within the same few miles, and Advance Transit runs free buses linking Lebanon, Hanover, White River Junction and Norwich. Grafton County is large and thinly settled, and recovery beds inside it are counted in a handful, so a certified operator in Lebanon serves a catchment running well up and down the river valley.

Reaching This Lebanon Recovery Housing Provider

Applications go through the organization. Worth asking at that level: how long it has run housing in the Upper Valley, whether it takes referrals from Dartmouth Hitchcock, the courts and area treatment providers, how fees and deposits are documented and what assistance exists, how long the waiting list runs, and how a complaint escalates past the house to the certifying body.