Home of Grace

About Home of Grace, Inc.

Home of Grace, Inc. is a sober living operator based in Vancleave, Mississippi, running two residential recovery campuses in Jackson County on the Gulf Coast. The faith-based nonprofit was founded in 1965 by Rev. Bill Barton Sr. and has housed men and women in recovery continuously since.

A Gulf Coast Recovery Housing Provider Since 1965

Six decades is an extraordinary run in this field, and on a coast rebuilt twice in living memory it says something specific about the organization. The buildings, the funding and the staff have all survived hurricanes, recessions and several complete generational turnovers of the people running them. Most recovery housing anywhere is under ten years old and a fair share of it closes inside five. A family evaluating a Mississippi recovery housing provider from another state can check this history against public record, which is more than most operators can offer.

Two Sober Living Campuses in Jackson County

Two residential campuses carry the Home of Grace name:

• Home of Grace Men's Campus, on Jericho Road in Vancleave, for men, on thirty acres along Bluff Creek.
• Home of Grace Women's Campus, on Home of Grace Drive in Gautier, for women, beside the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge.

Both sit in Jackson County, roughly twenty minutes apart, one in the rural north of the county and one nearer the coast. The men's campus is published at a capacity of up to 110. Keeping both inside one county means a resident's outpatient providers, court dates and family visits stay in the same place whichever campus they enter.

Serving Men and Women on Separate Campuses

The operator runs single-gender housing and does it at the campus level, which is a firmer separation than a men's wing and a women's wing under one roof. Men apply to Vancleave and women to Gautier. Sleeping quarters, common space, meetings and expectations are written for one population at each site, and nobody is the only man or the only woman in the building. For a couple, a pair of siblings or a parent and adult child entering recovery at the same time, the arrangement allows both to be housed in one county without living together.

A Faith-Based Mississippi Sober Living Operator

Home of Grace is explicitly faith-based, and a prospective resident should treat that as information. It shapes the daily schedule, the language staff use and the framework the program offers for making sense of addiction. People who want that find it load-bearing. People who do not will feel it every day. Published lengths of stay run from thirty days to twelve months, so the commitment being asked for can be substantial, and asking at intake exactly what religious participation is expected is a fair question.

Oversight of Recovery Housing Providers in Mississippi

Mississippi has no recovery residence certifier and no affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences, so no operator in the state holds recovery-residence certification and none can be faulted for lacking it. Clinical treatment providers are certified separately by the Mississippi Department of Mental Health. What remains to judge an operator on is its record: years in continuous operation, nonprofit standing and a board of directors, what it puts in writing before someone moves in, and how a complaint travels past campus staff to the people accountable for the organization.

One Application, Two Recovery Homes

Applications go through the organization instead of to a campus directly, which is the practical advantage of a multi-site operator. Staff assess a person against both settings, and a stay that begins at thirty days and extends toward a year does not require finding a second landlord partway through. Fees, expectations and program structure stay consistent across the two addresses, so a resident moving between stages is not learning a new set of rules from strangers.

Who These Mississippi Recovery Homes Are For

The campuses suit someone leaving detox, residential treatment or incarceration who needs real distance from the environment they were using in and can accept a structured, faith-centered program measured in months. Both sites are rural by design, and that is the trade: fewer distractions, and less independent access to a job or an outside meeting during the early weeks. Anyone who needs medical supervision on site belongs somewhere clinical first.