Patty's Place

About Patty's Place, Inc.

Patty's Place, Inc. is a sober living operator in Baltimore, Maryland, running women's recovery homes in Baltimore City. The city stands outside every Maryland county, and the organization keeps its housing on the northeast side, along the Frankford Avenue corridor.

A Baltimore Recovery Housing Provider

This is a housing organization. Its work is to keep a roof, a rent and a set of rules steady while residents do the rest somewhere else: outpatient appointments, meetings, work, court, family. Residents keep their own prescribers and counselors. What the operator controls is the part that most often collapses first for a woman leaving treatment, which is a stable address she can put on an application.

Women's Sober Houses on Frankford Avenue

The organization runs two women's residences, both on Frankford Avenue in northeast Baltimore:

• Patty's Place Transitional Housing, on Frankford Avenue in Baltimore.
• Patty's Place 1, on Frankford Avenue in Baltimore.

The two sit within a short walk of each other, which has a practical effect. A resident who needs a different household keeps the same neighborhood, the same bus routes, the same job and the same meetings, and the people making the decision already know her.

Transitional Housing as a Recovery Housing Model

Transitional housing is the bridge between a treatment bed and a lease. It assumes a resident is capable of managing her own day and needs the surrounding conditions to stop changing every few weeks. For women coming out of residential treatment, incarceration or an unsafe household, the value is time: months of a fixed address in which to find work, restore documents, reconnect with children and accumulate enough continuous sobriety that a landlord will take the risk.

Reaching This Baltimore Sober Living Operator

Applications go to the organization. The questions worth asking at the operator level are different from the ones about a particular house: how long it has housed women in Baltimore, whether it takes referrals from treatment providers and the city health department, how fees and deposits are documented and returned, how long residents typically stay, and how a complaint gets escalated past the house. Maryland's Behavioral Health Administration maintains statewide treatment and recovery resources.