Realslow Recovery, LLC

About Realslow Recovery, LLC

Realslow Recovery, LLC is a sober living operator in Easton, Maryland, in Talbot County. It is a nonprofit formed in April 2017 and it works across the Mid Shore, in Easton and in Cambridge across the Choptank River in Dorchester County.

A Nonprofit Sober Living Operator on the Mid Shore

The organization was formed by Sara and Michael Rissolo in April 2017 and opened its housing that June. Nonprofit status matters in a market this small: there is a board, there are filings, and the weekly fee is not carrying an owner's margin. Nine years in the same two towns has also made the organization known to the courts, the health departments and the treatment programs that refer into it, which is how placements actually get made on the Eastern Shore.

Certification Behind This Recovery Housing Provider

The operator's housing is certified through Maryland Certification of Recovery Residences, and it accepts Maryland Recovery Net funding. The certification binds the residence to a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and house rules before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint process outside the house. The funding pathway is the more immediately practical of the two, because it means someone leaving treatment with no money can be placed through the state while a first paycheck is still weeks away.

Where This Easton Sober Living Operator Works

The footprint is Talbot and Dorchester counties, anchored on Easton and Cambridge. Those two towns carry the Mid Shore's services: the regional hospital and the Talbot County courts and health department in Easton, the Dorchester County courts and health department in Cambridge, and the outpatient providers that cover both. US-50 runs through Easton toward Salisbury and back over the Bay Bridge, so a resident can reach almost anything on the Shore from either town. Recovery capacity here is thin, and an operator working both sides of the Choptank covers a large share of what exists.

Questions to Ask This Recovery Housing Provider

Applications go to the organization directly. The operator-level questions are different from the house-level ones: how long it has housed residents on the Mid Shore, whether it takes referrals from treatment providers, the drug court and the county health departments, exactly what the Maryland Recovery Net pathway covers and for how long, how deposits are documented and returned, and how a complaint escalates past the house manager to the operator and then to the state. A certified operator carrying a state funding contract should have all five answers ready.