Psychotherapeutic Services

About Psychotherapeutic Services

Psychotherapeutic Services is a recovery housing provider in Dover, Delaware, operating certified recovery residences for women and their children in Milford, in Sussex County. The company has run behavioral health programs in Delaware and across the Delmarva Peninsula for decades, and its Delaware work spans residential treatment, outpatient care and the Madre House recovery residences.

A Central Delaware Recovery Housing Provider

The company works out of Dover, the state capital and the seat of Kent County, and houses residents to the south in Milford. Dover carries the county courthouse, the state offices, Delaware State University and most of Kent County's outpatient providers, and the corridor between the two cities is the spine of central Delaware. A resident's court date, treatment appointment and job can all sit along it. The company's clinically managed residential programs for men and for women are in Dover, along with Cora's Place, a group home certified under the state's PROMISE program.

The Madre House Recovery Residences

Three certified recovery residences carry the Madre House name, standing together on South Washington Street in Milford:

• Madre House 1, with eight beds.
• Madre House 2, with seven beds.
• Madre House 3, with five beds.

Taken together the program houses twenty women along with their children up to the age of twelve, and the operator decides which of the three a resident enters. The houses are staffed around the clock, every day of the year. Residents receive case management, coping skills work, employment support, involvement in community twelve step meetings, and access to a psychiatric nurse practitioner for mental health care and medication management.

Sober Living for Women With Children

Recovery housing that accepts children is the scarcest kind in every state, and this provider has built its entire Delaware housing portfolio around it. A mother leaving treatment is usually asked to choose between a bed and her children, and a certified house that takes both settles the question at the door. Lower Delaware has very little of it. For a woman in Kent or Sussex County, the practical alternative is often moving to the Wilmington area or going without.

How This Recovery Housing Provider Is Regulated

Four separate bodies touch this program. The residences are certified by the First State Alliance of Recovery Residences, the only entity Delaware has approved to certify recovery housing under the Matthew Klosowski Act. The Madre program is also certified by the state's Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, licensed through the Division of Long Term Care Residents Protection, and accredited by The Joint Commission. Separately, the company's clinical residential programs appear on Delaware's licensed provider list. An organization examined that many times leaves a resident more to check than most.

What It Costs to Live in These Delaware Sober Homes

The company bills residents for length of stay and sets the cost of care against the benefits a resident receives, whether Social Security, disability or SSI. Recovery housing usually quotes a flat weekly rate, and a woman arriving from treatment with no income and children to feed cannot meet one. Tying the charge to a benefit amount is what makes the program reachable for the population it was built for. Certification requires the arrangement to be disclosed in writing before anyone moves in.

Reaching This Dover Sober Living Operator

Applications go through the organization, which holds the addresses and assigns a house. The questions worth asking at the operator level are company questions: how long it has housed women in central Delaware, how many children a resident may bring and at what ages, whether medication for opioid use disorder is permitted in the houses, whether a resident must attend the company's own clinical programs to keep her bed, and how a complaint escalates past the house to the operator and then to the certifying body. Delaware's Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health lists these residences among the state's publicly funded recovery housing for women with children.