Home Sober Living

About Home Sober Living

HOME Sober Living is a sober living operator in Manchester, New Hampshire, running certified recovery housing in Hillsborough and Strafford counties. Three residences carry the name, all certified at Level II by the New Hampshire Coalition of Recovery Residences, at twelve, twelve and twenty-one beds.

A New Hampshire Sober Living Operator Working in Two Counties

HOME Sober Living is a housing organization. The houses supply a stable address, peer accountability and a daily structure, and the clinical side of recovery stays with outpatient providers, prescribers and therapists the resident keeps. What the operator controls is the part a resident notices day to day: whether the rent is predictable, whether the rules are the same in every house, and whether someone answers the phone. Correspondence goes to a post office box in Manchester, and the houses themselves are unlisted, which is common practice for recovery residences in residential neighborhoods.

The HOME Sober Living Recovery Homes

Three certified residences carry the HOME Sober Living name:

• A women's house in Manchester, Hillsborough County, certified for twelve beds.
• A men's house in Manchester, certified for twelve beds.
• A men's house in Rochester, Strafford County, certified for twenty-one beds.

Two counties, two cities and one application. The Manchester pair sits in the state's largest city and the Rochester house sits at the inland end of the Seacoast, so the operator covers both ends of a corridor that a lot of New Hampshire residents already travel for work and treatment.

Men's and Women's Sober Houses Kept Separate

Every house is single-gender. Men apply to the Manchester men's residence or the Rochester house, and women apply to the Manchester women's residence. Splitting at the house level means the rules, the meetings and the shared space are written for one population, and a resident is never the only man or the only woman in a building. It also means the operator runs parallel waitlists, so one house can be full while another has beds open.

NHCORR Certification Across the Recovery Housing

All three residences are certified by the New Hampshire Coalition of Recovery Residences, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences, at Level II. NHCORR certifies house by house, so anyone comparing options should confirm the specific residence being applied to. An operator that carries certification on everything it runs has accepted a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules, a relapse and discharge policy on paper, and a complaint route that leads outside the company.

A Twelve-Step Community Behind These Sober Homes

The houses run on twelve-step practice, and the operator says so plainly: a common solution in place of a common problem. Residents start the day with meditation together and end it with a review. Meetings, volunteer work and shared meals carry the rest. Leadership teams are drawn from people who have lived the program in these houses, so the person enforcing a rule at nine at night has usually been on the other side of it. Rent covers utilities, laundry is free, and one of the houses has a gym.

Reaching HOME Sober Living About Recovery Housing

Applications go through HOME Sober Living directly, for any of the three houses. The questions worth asking at the operator level differ from the ones about a bedroom: how long the organization has run recovery housing in New Hampshire, whether it takes referrals from treatment providers and drug courts, how deposits are documented and returned, whether a resident can transfer between houses, and how a complaint escalates past the house manager to the operator and then to the certifying body. A certified operator should have all five ready.