Renaissance House

About Renaissance House

Renaissance House is a sober living operator in Franklin, New Hampshire, providing men's recovery housing in Merrimack County. It works at the northern end of the county, where the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers join to form the Merrimack.

A Merrimack Valley Recovery Housing Provider

This is a housing organization working in a small city, and the shape of that is worth understanding before applying. A local operator makes its decisions locally. Admissions, fees and discharge are handled by someone reachable, and the operator's standing rests on one set of neighbors and one small community. The other side of the trade is that a small operator publishes little, markets little and returns calls on its own schedule. An applicant who wants a polished web presence will find more of it elsewhere; an applicant who wants to speak to the person making the decision will find that here.

Certification and the Public Record in New Hampshire

New Hampshire does not license recovery residences the way it licenses clinical facilities. Certification exists, it is voluntary, and one state designated agency grants it. An operator that has not certified is not thereby suspect, and a considerable number of New Hampshire houses running well have never entered the process. Certification supplies an external record: a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint route that reaches past the house. Where an operator has not certified, an applicant can ask for all four directly and expect a straight answer. New Hampshire's Department of Health and Human Services publishes statewide recovery housing information.

Where This Franklin Sober Living Operator Works

Franklin sits on the Route 3 and Route 127 corridor twenty minutes north of Concord and twenty minutes south of Laconia, between the two service centers of central New Hampshire. Concord is the county seat and the state capital, holding the superior court, the county complex, Concord Hospital and most of Merrimack County's outpatient providers. Laconia carries the Lakes Region's courts, hospital campus and seasonal employment. An operator in Franklin places residents between the two, with lower housing costs than either and a shorter list of local services.

Reaching This Recovery Housing Provider

Applications go directly to the operator. The operator level questions differ from the ones about a bedroom: how long it has housed men in Merrimack County, whether it takes referrals from treatment providers, the drug court and hospital discharge planners, how fees and deposits are documented and refunded, whether it holds or is pursuing certification, and how a complaint gets escalated past the house manager.