Kingdom House

About Kingdom House

Kingdom House is a sober living operator in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, running men's and women's recovery housing in East Baton Rouge Parish. It keeps three houses inside the city and publishes what it costs to move into them, which is unusual enough in this state to be the first thing worth saying about it.

A Baton Rouge Recovery Housing Provider

Kingdom House is a housing operation with a recovery program attached, and it works in one city. The houses supply an address, housemates in the same position, accountability and a set of rules. Clinical care, prescribers and therapy come from providers elsewhere in Baton Rouge, and residents keep those relationships. The operator's job is to hold the housing steady: consistent rent, consistent expectations, and the same answer at every address. A resident notices that consistency most on the day he moves from one house to another and nothing about the rules changes.

Where the Kingdom House Sober Homes Are

Three houses carry the name, all in Baton Rouge:

• A men's house at 233 Nancy Drive, in the 70819 ZIP on the east side of the city.
• A men's house at 11161 Worthington Avenue, in 70815.
• A women's house at 11089 Worthington Avenue, in 70815.

Two of the three sit on the same street, a short walk apart. That is a tight footprint, and it means a change of house never means a change of neighborhood, bus route or outpatient provider.

Men's and Women's Sober Houses Kept Separate

Every house runs as a single-gender household. Men apply to Nancy Drive or 11161 Worthington, women to 11089 Worthington. Keeping the split at the house level, one gender to a building, means house rules, meetings and shared space are written for one population, and nobody is the only woman in a building of men. It also gives a family in recovery an option that is rare in the Capital Region: two people can live under the same operator, in the same neighborhood, in separate houses.

Published Terms From This Sober Living Operator

The operator states its entry cost openly: a $100 processing fee and a first week's rent of $150. Weekly billing matches how residents are actually paid and keeps the commitment short. Publishing the number does something else for an applicant. It removes the negotiation that a person with no savings and no leverage always loses, and it makes an honest comparison against other Baton Rouge houses possible before anyone visits.

A Faith and Twelve-Step Recovery Housing Model

The program the operator runs across its houses is peer and program based. Residents obtain a sponsor and full-time employment immediately, attend house meetings, submit to random drug and alcohol screening, keep a curfew and take a nightly chore. On top of that, Kingdom House encourages service work, twelve-step or faith-based recovery, in-house sponsorship and fellowship through events it hosts. An applicant should read the faith element as genuine and ask about it. For some residents it is the reason the house works, and somebody who wants a purely secular twelve-step environment should know what the culture is before moving in.

Recovery Housing for the Capital Region

Baton Rouge is the state capital and the seat of East Baton Rouge Parish, and it holds the Capital Region's courts, hospitals, state agencies, outpatient clinics, universities and community college. People leaving treatment in Livingston Parish, Ascension Parish and the Florida Parishes come into the city because it is where the appointments they have to keep and the jobs that pay for housing both are. Kingdom House puts residents inside that network at an address they can hold while they get established.

Who These Louisiana Sober Homes Are For

The houses suit someone out of detox, residential treatment or incarceration who can work full time and wants structure around the rest of the day. A resident who needs clinical supervision on site is a poor match. Louisiana has no licensure or registry for recovery residences, and certification through the Louisiana Association of Recovery Residences is voluntary, so questions at the operator level are the ones that matter: how long it has housed residents in Baton Rouge, whether it takes referrals from treatment providers and the parish drug court, how deposits are documented and refunded, how a transfer between houses is handled, and how a complaint gets escalated past the house manager.