Second Chance Sober Living

About Second Chance Sober Living

Second Chance Sober Living is a recovery housing provider in Nashville, Tennessee, running a community of fourteen houses and living areas in Davidson County. It is a nonprofit, has been housing residents for more than ten years, and grew from a single home that took in six men to a community of more than 80 residents.

A Nashville Sober Living Community

The organization describes itself as a community before it describes itself as housing, and the numbers behind that are its own: fourteen houses and living areas, more than 80 people living in them, and more than 500 people who have come through since it started. Its administrative address is on Morton Avenue in south Nashville, where intake and applications are handled. Scale is the practical difference here. An operator with fourteen properties can place someone this week and can move a resident who is in the wrong house without ending his tenancy.

Men's and Women's Sober Houses in One Community

Houses and living areas are separated by gender, so households are single gender while the wider fellowship includes both men and women. That structure gives a resident single gender space to sleep in and a much larger community to recover inside, and it lets the operator match someone to a household instead of to whatever bed is empty. Applications are handled centrally through an online form.

Twelve Step Recovery Housing and Accountability

The community is built on 12 Step recovery, centered on God and unaffiliated with any single congregation, with spiritual growth, personal growth and personal accountability as its stated pillars. Residents are deeply involved in 12 Step groups across Nashville, and the operator is explicit that it honors the anonymity of those programs while relying on them. Close proximity is treated as the teaching mechanism. Living beside people doing the same work makes the consequences of a decision visible, and the houses are organized around that.

How This Sober Living Operator Is Supported

Funding comes from resident fees and from donations, and the organization solicits specific in kind support that says a good deal about its residents: presentable clothing for job interviews, usable furniture and working appliances. It also recruits volunteers for mentorship, bible studies and fundraising events. A prospective resident should read that as an operator running close to its costs, which makes the fee structure and what it covers a fair question to ask early.

Recovery Housing in Davidson County

Nashville and Davidson County share one consolidated government, and the city holds the state capital, the criminal courts, the largest outpatient treatment sector in Tennessee, Nashville State Community College, and hospitality, construction and healthcare employers that hire quickly. WeGo Public Transit runs the bus network and Interstates 24, 40 and 65 meet in the middle of the county. Demand for recovery housing here is the highest in Middle Tennessee, and a fourteen property community absorbs a meaningful share of it. Tennessee publishes statewide treatment and recovery resources through its Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.

Applying to This Nashville Recovery Housing Provider

Applications go through the operator's online form. The questions worth asking at the operator level are about the organization: how long it has housed people in Nashville, whether it takes referrals from treatment providers and recovery courts, what the weekly charge is and what it includes, whether a deposit is refundable, how a transfer between houses works, whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted across the community, and how a complaint escalates past a house manager.