Men of Dignity

About Men of Dignity

Men of Dignity is a sober living operator in Worcester, Massachusetts, running three certified men's sober homes across the city in Worcester County. The organization pairs each residence with House Mentors who staff the home and hold residents to the same set of expectations, and it manages payments, meeting attendance and maintenance requests for all three houses through one resident portal.

A Worcester Sober Living Operator for Men

Men of Dignity houses only men, and it runs that population across three separate addresses rather than one large building. Each house carries its own group of residents and its own House Mentor, but an application, a rule violation or a request for a different house all go through the same office.

Three Sober Homes Across Worcester

• Men of Dignity - Wellington, on Wellington Street, for men.
• Men of Dignity - Circuit Ave, on Circuit Avenue East, for men.
• Men of Dignity - King St, on King Street, for men.

All three sit inside Worcester, so a man who starts at one address and later needs a different set of housemates can move without leaving the city, its bus network or the outpatient providers he has already lined up.

House Mentors and a Shared Recovery Framework

Men of Dignity describes its approach as addressing the physical, emotional and spiritual sides of recovery, and it puts a House Mentor on site at each home to carry that out day to day. Residents track meeting attendance, submit maintenance and overnight requests, and handle payments through the same online system at every address, which keeps the rules consistent no matter which house a man lives in.

Certification Through MASH

Each Men of Dignity residence is separately certified by the Massachusetts Alliance for Sober Housing, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. Certification obliges a written code of ethics, disclosed fees and rules before move-in, and an outside complaint process, and it is also what lets Massachusetts agencies and parole or probation officers refer someone directly to the house.

Recovery Housing in Worcester County

Worcester is the seat of Worcester County and the second largest city in New England, with a concentration of colleges, hospitals and outpatient treatment providers that a smaller town cannot match. The Worcester Regional Transit Authority runs bus service through most of the city's residential neighborhoods, which matters for a resident getting to work, a meeting or an appointment before a car is realistic.

Applying to a Men of Dignity Sober Home

Applications for any of the three houses go through Men of Dignity directly. Worth asking: which address has an open bed, what the House Mentor expects in the first thirty days, and how a transfer between houses works if the fit at one address turns out wrong.