Rae of Hope Inc

About Rae of Hope Inc

Rae of Hope Inc is a nonprofit recovery housing provider based in Farrell, Pennsylvania, running licensed men's and women's sober houses across Mercer County.

A Mercer County Recovery Housing Provider

Rae of Hope Inc operates out of the Shenango Valley, the cluster of small cities on the Ohio border that includes Farrell, Sharon and Hermitage. The organization runs separate houses for men and women rather than a single mixed facility.

Licensed Recovery Houses Under the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs

Each Rae of Hope house holds a full license as a recovery house from the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs. Pennsylvania does not require every recovery house to carry this license, so an organization running four licensed addresses at once has put its whole portfolio through the state's review rather than only part of it.

Four Sober Homes in the Shenango Valley

Rae of Hope Inc operates:

• A women's house on Smith Avenue in Hermitage.
• A men's house on Lincoln Avenue in Farrell.
• A women's house on French Street in Sharon.
• A second men's house on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Farrell.

Splitting men's and women's housing across separate addresses, rather than separate floors of one building, means a resident of either gender is never the only one of their gender in the house.

Serving Men and Women in Recovery

Rae of Hope Inc houses both men and women, but never in the same building. Men apply to one of the two Farrell houses, and women apply to Hermitage or Sharon. That split keeps house rules, meetings and shared space built for one population at each address.

A Nonprofit Recovery Housing Organization

Rae of Hope operates as a nonprofit rather than a for-profit housing company, which means the organization answers to a board of directors rather than to private ownership alone in how it runs its four Mercer County houses.

Reaching Rae of Hope Inc in Mercer County

Applications for any of the four houses go through Rae of Hope Inc directly. Because the organization runs a licensed house in three different Shenango Valley communities, a prospective resident can ask about openings at whichever address is closest to a job, a court date or a family member willing to help with transportation.