Sober Sisters Recovery

About Sober Sisters Recovery

Sober Sisters Recovery is a recovery housing provider in Somersworth, New Hampshire, offering women's sober living in Strafford County. It works on the northern edge of the Seacoast, in a small city on the Salmon Falls River across from Berwick, Maine.

A Women's Recovery Housing Provider in Strafford County

The operator works with one population, and in New Hampshire that is a scarce commitment. Women's recovery housing is thinner statewide than men's, and thinner again outside the Manchester and Nashua corridor. A provider serving women in the northern Seacoast is filling a gap that referral sources in Dover, Rochester and Somersworth encounter constantly. Housing is what is on offer here: clinical care comes from providers elsewhere in the county, and residents keep their own prescribers, counselors and meetings.

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 it is granted by a single state designated agency. An operator that is not certified is not thereby suspect, and a considerable number of houses that run well have never applied. What certification supplies is 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 process that reaches past the house. Where an operator has not certified, an applicant can ask for all four directly, and a provider running a sound house will produce them. New Hampshire's Department of Health and Human Services maintains statewide recovery housing information.

Where This Sober Living Operator Works

Somersworth is the third city in the Rochester, Somersworth and Dover cluster that holds most of Strafford County's population, with all three inside a fifteen minute drive along Route 108 and the Spaulding Turnpike. Dover is the county seat and holds the superior court and county administration. Rochester holds Frisbie Memorial Hospital and much of the northern half's employment. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital serves Dover. Outpatient providers and recovery centers run along the corridor between them, so an operator based in Somersworth places residents inside the whole network without putting them in the middle of a city.

Reaching This Recovery Housing Provider

Applications go directly to the operator, and where little is published the conversation carries the weight a website normally would. The operator level questions are about tenure and process: how long it has housed women in Somersworth, whether it takes referrals from treatment providers and hospital discharge planners, how fees and deposits are documented and refunded, whether it holds certification and where it stands on the state registry, and how a complaint gets escalated past the house.