Serenity House Counseling Services, Inc.

About Serenity House Counseling Services, Inc.

Serenity House Counseling Services, Inc. in Addison, Illinois, is a sober living operator in DuPage County. Its campus stands on South Rohlwing Road.

A DuPage County Provider Since 1985

Serenity House began in 1985. The organization states it is the only facility of its kind offering a 90-day Extended Residential Care Treatment Program specific to assisting individuals recovering from substance abuse.

Serenity House Sober Homes Across DuPage And Kane

Serenity House is comprised of eight recovery homes. Five are homes for men, four located in Addison and one in Batavia. Women's homes are located in Addison, Villa Park and Naperville. Addison, Villa Park and Naperville are DuPage County communities, while Batavia is a Kane County city on the Fox River, so the network reaches across the county line to the west while keeping most of its houses inside DuPage.

Locations And Offices

The Serenity House campus is at 891 S. Rohlwing Rd. in Addison. The organization also keeps an office at 825 W. State Street in Geneva, in Kane County. Geneva is the Kane County seat, which places that second office in the town where the county's own offices and courthouse sit.

What The Organization Does Beyond Housing

Serenity House provides DUI services, evaluations, substance abuse treatment, residential care programs, sober living and recovery homes, and adolescent programs. Recovery housing sits inside that range of services rather than apart from it, which is what makes a move between services a move inside one organization rather than a handoff between two.

Standards The Organization Applies To Its Homes

Serenity House defines its recovery homes as alcohol and drug-free homes whose guidelines, groups and recovery management activities are directed toward maintenance of sobriety for persons in early recovery. One entry standard covers every house: 90 days of sobriety, reached before move-in and arranged through a scheduled assessment, after which an applicant waits for an opening. Weekly attendance at three or more support groups is expected of residents, alongside an hour-long recovery management group led with a counselor. A single standard applied across eight houses means an applicant is assessed once against one bar rather than house by house.

Choosing Serenity House As A Recovery Housing Provider

Serenity House carries a treatment arm and recovery housing under one organization, and it distributes its houses by gender across Addison, Batavia, Villa Park and Naperville. Anyone comparing recovery housing providers in DuPage County is looking at an organization with a defined entry process and a waitlist.