Positive Transitions

About Positive Transitions

Positive Transitions is a sober living operator in Rochester, New Hampshire, running men's and women's recovery housing in Strafford County. It operates two households at one Rochester address under a certified operation.

A Strafford County Recovery Housing Provider

This is a housing organization working in the largest city in the northern half of Strafford County. It supplies addresses, household structure and peer accountability, and clinical care comes from providers elsewhere in the Seacoast. Residents hold their own prescribers, counselors and meetings, and the operator's work is to keep the housing sound, the fees predictable and the expectations the same from one household to the other.

Men's and Women's Sober Homes at One Address

Two households run here, one for men and one for women, at the same Pine Street property in Rochester. That structure gives an operator flexibility a single house does not have. A referral source with a woman to place and a referral source with a man to place are talking to the same organization, and the fee structure, the rules and the discharge policy do not change between them. Each household still lives as a single gender household, with its own residents and its own weekly meeting.

What Certification Commits This Sober Living Operator To

Certification in New Hampshire is voluntary, granted by the New Hampshire Partnership for Recovery Residences, the sole agency the state designates for it. A certified operation publishes a code of ethics, discloses fees and rules in writing before an applicant commits, keeps a written relapse and discharge policy, and answers to a complaint process outside the house. It also becomes eligible for the state's Voluntary Recovery House Registry, and agencies spending state or federal funds may refer only to houses on that registry. Because certification attaches residence by residence, an applicant should confirm the status of the specific household.

Where This Rochester Sober Living Operator Works

Rochester is the commercial center of northern Strafford County, with Dover, the county seat, twenty minutes down the Spaulding Turnpike. The county's courts and administration sit in Dover, Frisbie Memorial Hospital serves Rochester directly, and outpatient providers and recovery centers run the length of the corridor between them. An operator working in Rochester places residents inside that whole network while keeping them in the cheaper and quieter of the two cities.

Reaching This Recovery Housing Provider

Applications go through the operator. Worth asking at that level: how long it has housed residents in Strafford County, whether it accepts referrals from treatment providers, the drug court and hospital discharge planners, how fees and deposits are documented and refunded, and how a complaint moves past the house manager to the operator and then to the certifying body.