Herring Houses of Dothan

About Herring Houses of Dothan

Herring Houses of Dothan is a sober living operator in Dothan, Alabama, running men's and women's recovery housing in Houston County, in the Wiregrass region of the southeast corner of the state.

A Wiregrass Recovery Housing Provider

This is a local operator in a part of Alabama where recovery housing is thin on the ground. The Wiregrass counties around Dothan send people to the county seat for almost every service, and the housing stock available to someone leaving treatment there is measured in a handful of addresses. A provider running two households in the city is a meaningful share of what exists.

Men's and Women's Sober Houses in Dothan

Two recovery homes operate under this provider, both on North Herring Street in Dothan:

• Step by Step Recovery, the men's house.
• Herring Houses, the women's house.

Keeping the two on the same street gives residents single-gender households alongside a shared intake and one set of expectations. It also means a couple or a pair of family members entering recovery together can be housed by the same operator without living in the same building, which in a small city is often the only version of that arrangement available.

Certification and Alabama Sober Living Operators

Alabama has no statute requiring a housing-only recovery residence to be licensed or certified, and no state agency publishes a list. The only credential is voluntary certification through the Alabama Alliance for Recovery Residences, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences, and most Alabama operators do not hold it. Its absence from any listing is a neutral fact about paperwork. What it means practically is that an applicant should ask for the documents certification would have required: written fees, written house rules, a written relapse and discharge policy, and a named person outside the house who hears a complaint.

Reaching This Dothan Sober Living Operator

Placement goes through the operator for both houses. The operator-level questions are about the organization's track record and its terms: how long it has run housing in Dothan, whether it accepts referrals from treatment providers, the drug court or the jail, how deposits are documented and returned, whether a resident can move between the two houses if the household is wrong, and who is responsible when something goes wrong that a house manager cannot fix. Ask for the fee schedule in writing before a move-in date is set.