Twilight Drive Recovery House

About Volunteers of America Northern New England

Volunteers of America Northern New England runs one recovery residence in Scarborough, Maine: Twilight Drive Recovery House. The organization itself is based in Brunswick, in Sagadahoc County, while the house it operates sits in Cumberland County on the coast south of Portland.

A Multi-Service Nonprofit

Volunteers of America Northern New England is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose work extends well beyond recovery housing. Its service lines include housing programs, veterans services, behavioral health, intellectual disabilities services, community justice, homeless services, youth and young adult services, and Camp POSTCARD. Recovery services form one part of that portfolio, and within it the organization operates a single recovery residence rather than a network of houses.

Recovery Housing in Scarborough

Twilight Drive Recovery House is a Level III recovery residence providing temporary housing to men with a history of chronic drug and alcohol use. It appears on the Maine Association of Recovery Residences register of certified residences, listed under Volunteers of America at Level 3 in Scarborough.

One House Rather Than a Network

Because the organization runs a single residence, everything specific to daily life in the house, who it serves, what it expects of residents and how it is run, belongs to that listing rather than to a wider portfolio. What the operator adds is institutional weight behind one address: a nonprofit with established programs in housing, behavioral health and homeless services across the region, rather than a stand-alone sober house.

A Recovery Housing Provider Across Northern New England

Volunteers of America was founded in 1896 by the social reformers Ballington and Maud Booth, and the Northern New England affiliate carries that work across Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont from its base in Brunswick. Recovery housing is a small piece of a large footprint, and the effect on a resident is institutional depth. Payroll, maintenance, insurance and regulatory compliance sit inside an organization with decades of housing and behavioral health programs behind it, so the housing does not depend on one person's continued involvement.

What to Ask This Maine Sober Living Operator

Admission runs through the organization, and the questions worth putting to it are the ones a household cannot answer for itself. Where do referrals come from, and do the agency's own homeless services and behavioral health lines feed them? How are fees and any deposit documented, and what is refundable? What happens to a resident who turns out to need a different kind of support, given the range of programs the agency runs? How does a complaint travel past house staff, first to the organization and then to the Maine Association of Recovery Residences, which holds the certification? An operator of this size should have all four answers in writing.