Serenity Properties

About Serenity Properties

Serenity Properties is a sober living operator based in Georgetown, Delaware, running men's and women's recovery homes across Sussex County. Rick Greenberg founded the company after more than thirty years in the recovery community, and it has housed hundreds of people from the region since. Six houses carry the name, five in Georgetown and one in Bridgeville.

A Georgetown Recovery Housing Provider

Serenity Properties is a housing organization. Clinical work happens elsewhere, with outpatient providers residents keep on their own, and the company's job is the address, the household and the expectations that hold both together. Greenberg's stated approach is that a house should treat the people living in it, and he stays in direct contact with residents across the addresses. A small operator behaves differently from a large one in ways a resident notices quickly. Admissions, rent questions and discharge decisions are made by someone who knows the household and can be reached.

Serenity Properties Sober Homes in Georgetown and Bridgeville

Six recovery homes carry the Serenity Properties name:

• The Grey House, on South Front Street in Georgetown, for men.
• The Red House, on South Bedford Street in Georgetown, for men.
• The Walnut Street House, on Walnut Street in Bridgeville, for men.
• The Cottage, on North Margaret Street in Georgetown, for women.
• Bramhall Street Women's House, on Bramhall Street in Georgetown, for women.
• W. Market Street Women's House, on West Market Street in Georgetown, for women.

Five sit inside Georgetown, within a few blocks of each other and of The Circle at the town center. The sixth is in Bridgeville, in the western part of the county along US Route 13. That concentration has a practical effect. Moving between the Georgetown houses changes the household and leaves a resident's job, meetings, providers and court obligations exactly where they were.

Separate Men's and Women's Sober Houses

Every residence is single-gender, and the company runs them as separate households with their own intake lines. Men apply in Georgetown or in Bridgeville; women apply to one of the three Georgetown houses. Keeping the split at the house level means rules, meetings and shared space are written for one population, and no resident is the only man or the only woman in a building.

House Terms Across These Sober Living Homes

The same conditions apply at every address, which is much of the point of running several houses under one name. Residents stay drug free and alcohol free. They become active in a twelve-step fellowship, with Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and Chemically Dependent Anonymous all named, and active means regular meetings, a sponsor and a home group. They find full-time work within two weeks of moving in, and anyone legitimately on disability performs weekly community service in its place. They keep up with rent and with obligations outside the house, including child support and legal matters, and they take a share of chores and house functions. Aftercare counseling with an outpatient provider is encouraged and arranged by the resident.

One Application, Several Recovery Homes

Applications go to Serenity Properties itself, and that is the practical case for choosing a multi-house operator over a standalone sober home. A man is considered for any men's house with space, a woman for any of the three women's houses. If a household turns out to be a poor fit after move-in, a transfer is a conversation with people who already know the resident, and the terms do not change from one address to the next.

Delaware Certification and This Recovery Housing Provider

Delaware certifies recovery residences through the First State Alliance of Recovery Residences, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences and the body named in state law for the purpose. Certification is granted residence by residence, so anyone comparing operators should check the specific address they are applying to on the public register. What it commits a house to is concrete: a written code of ethics, fees and rules disclosed before move-in, a documented relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint process that runs outside the household.

Who These Sussex County Sober Homes Suit

The houses fit someone coming out of detox, residential treatment or incarceration who can hold a job and wants a predictable week. The two-week work rule sets the floor, and anyone needing clinical supervision on site is a poor match for it. Sussex County's recovery housing is concentrated in a handful of towns, and an operator holding six houses in one county carries weight in a southern Delaware search out of proportion to the size of the company.