Kim's Place

About Kim's Place

Kim's Place is a women's sober living operator in Wilmington, Delaware, providing recovery housing in New Castle County. It is a nonprofit recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) public charity, and it works with women in recovery from substance use disorder.

A Nonprofit Sober Living Operator in New Castle County

Charitable status is the defining fact about this operator. A 501(c)(3) files with the IRS, answers to a board and can accept tax deductible donations, so resident fees are not the only thing holding the housing up. For a woman with limited income, that structure often shows up as flexibility a commercial landlord cannot offer. It also tends to come with a small staff and a slower reply, and anyone applying should expect to reach a person directly.

Public Records Behind This Recovery Housing Provider

Delaware regulates recovery housing lightly, so two public records carry most of the weight when someone evaluates a recovery housing provider in the state:

1. Charitable registration and 501(c)(3) recognition, which establish that the entity is real, current and answerable for the housing it runs.
2. Certification through the First State Alliance of Recovery Residences, the certifying body named in the Matthew Klosowski Act, which binds a residence to a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules, and a complaint process outside the house.

Kim's Place holds the first. Asking about the second is a fair question to put to any Delaware operator, and the answer, either way, tells an applicant something about how the housing is run.

Where This Wilmington Sober Living Operator Works

The footprint is New Castle County, which holds the majority of Delaware's population, its courts, its outpatient treatment capacity and its entry level employment. Wilmington is the county seat and the center of all of it. Women searching for recovery housing in Delaware work from a short list, so a women's operator based in the state's largest city carries weight in a search out of proportion to its size. Delaware's Department of Health and Social Services maintains statewide treatment and recovery resources.

Reaching Kim's Place in Wilmington, Delaware

Applications go directly to the operator. The questions to put at the organization level differ from the ones about a particular bed: how long it has housed women in New Castle County, whether it takes referrals from treatment providers, recovery centers and the courts, how fees and deposits are documented and refunded, whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted, and how a complaint gets escalated past a house manager. A nonprofit operator with a board should have all of those answers on hand.