Lifting The Fallen House

About Lifting The Fallen House

Lifting The Fallen House is a sober living operator in Springfield, Massachusetts, in Hampden County, running a certified men's residence through the Massachusetts Alliance for Sober Housing.

A Peer-Led Springfield Sober Living Operator

Abraham E. Torres Jr. founded the organization out of his own recovery, and the operator describes its model as peer-supported: staff and leadership include people who have lived through addiction themselves.

What MASH Certification Requires of This Operator

Certification through the Massachusetts Alliance for Sober Housing obliges the operator to publish a code of ethics, disclose fees and house rules in writing, maintain a relapse and discharge policy, and accept an outside complaint process. The organization states its standards are built to track both MASH and national NARR requirements.

Working Hampden County's Recovery Housing Market

Springfield's size and its concentration of hospitals and outpatient providers give a men's sober living operator here a deeper referral base than the smaller towns spread across Hampden County.

Reaching This Springfield Sober Living Operator

Questions worth asking at the operator level: how fees and deposits are documented, whether referrals come from treatment providers or the courts, and how a complaint is handled once it moves past the house.