SOME (So Others Might Eat)

About SOME (So Others Might Eat)

SOME (So Others Might Eat) is a recovery housing provider and social service organization in Washington, D.C., running a substance use disorder continuum alongside affordable housing, healthcare and job training. Founded in 1970 by Father Horace McKenna as a soup kitchen, it now operates from a headquarters in Truxton Circle and spends the largest share of its budget on housing, a majority of whose residents are in recovery from addiction.

A Washington Sober Living Operator Built Around Housing

The organization's premise is that addiction recovery fails without an address, and its structure follows from that. Alongside its safe house and treatment programs, it develops and operates residential buildings across the District, including single room occupancy and efficiency units created from vacant and blighted properties. A resident engaging with the recovery programs is inside an organization that can also supply the permanent housing at the end of it.

Recovery Homes Inside a Wider Continuum

The substance use disorder continuum runs from intake through several settings. Long-term residential treatment happens at a campus outside the District. Intensive outpatient services provide educational and process groups, individual counseling, case management and treatment planning. Safe house recovery housing in Washington supports consistent engagement with those outpatient services. Case management, medical services, workforce development and affordable housing run across all of it.

A Recovery Housing Provider With No Appointment Required

Intake requires no appointment, which sounds procedural and is not. People reach the point of asking for help at unpredictable hours and rarely twice. An organization that can take someone the day they walk in, and that has both clinical services and housing on the other side of that door, catches people that a two-week waiting list loses.

Certification and Sober Homes in the District

The District of Columbia certifies behavioral health providers through the Department of Behavioral Health and maintains no registry or certification for recovery housing itself. For a Washington recovery housing provider, that means the public record covers the clinical side and stops at the front door of the residence. Fifty years of continuous operation in the city, and a portfolio of buildings the organization owns outright, are what a prospective resident can weigh instead.

Serving the District of Columbia

The organization works citywide, with programs and housing in Northwest, Northeast and Southeast Washington. Its headquarters sits near North Capitol Street in Truxton Circle, close to the Red Line and the bus corridors that connect the central city to Wards 5, 7 and 8. That reach matters in a District where the overdose burden falls heaviest east of the Anacostia River and most of the treatment infrastructure sits west of it.