Successful sober homes establish and reinforce healthy lifestyles, provide a safe and stable place to live, conduct meaningful activities, and build relationships and social networks for support. Through our network of certified sober housing and empirically-based recovery principles, MASH’s goal is to help create and foster these safe living environments for those with substance use disorders. Through our network of certified sober housing and empirically-based recovery principles, MASH’s goal is to help create and foster safe living environments for those with substance use disorders. The mission of the MASH is to support individuals in recovery by ensuring access to high-quality sober living environments.
- Submit an application online and receive a call back within 24 hours.
- MASH is dedicated to promoting the health, safety, and well-being of residents through rigorous certification standards that align with the National Alliance for Recovery Residences.
- We’re expanding across the United States as our resources permit!
- That last requirement brings the property into compliance with a city bylaw that limits the number of unrelated people that can live in a single-family home together.
Certification Application Steps
Visit the Vanderburgh House website to learn more about their sober homes. We were founded jointly by Vanderburgh House, an operator of sober houses in Massachusetts, and Vanderburgh Communities, an organization supporting sober living and recovery home operators. We’re expanding across the United States as our resources permit! If you would like to add a listing to our sober house directory, please let us know.
Sober house operator ordered to comply with building codes
D’Amante also didn’t get a change-of-use permit to convert the single-family home into a sober house, the filings say. Our all-in-one app handles rent collection, admissions, property management, residents’ care coordination, community contacts, transportation details, calendars, staff, alumni and more – all from the convenience of your phone. You don’t have to get certified to open a sober living home in Massachusetts. 24.b Ongoing performance support and training are provided for staff.
Providing access to a sober lifestyle.
Code enforcement officials categorize sober houses as rooming houses, and any rooming house with more than five occupants is required to install fire sprinklers. The Plymouth Street sober house has six occupants including D’Amante, and no sprinkler system, so it was cited for that. The property also failed to meet certain accessibility requirements for “transient lodging facilities,” triggering another set of citations. Recovery advocates say the ideal sober house provides a stable, drug-free environment where people can live for a few months while they get back on their feet. But some sober houses are more sober than others, recovery advocates say, and the worst ones can be hotspots for relapses and overdoses.
- In the meantime, the company has agreed to limit the property’s occupancy to five residents while it addresses other code violations.
- These standards ensure that sober homes provide safe, structured, and supportive environments crucial for long-term recovery.
- Verification that entertainment or recreational areas and/or furnishings promoting social engagement are provided.
From the Massachusetts Alliance of Sober Housing website:
This manual is recommended for highway design engineers, bridge engineers, safety engineers, researchers, hardware developers, crash test laboratories, and others concerned with safety features used in the highway environment. Products addressed in MASH include longitudinal barriers, transitions, end terminals, crash cushions, breakaway supports, truck mounted attenuators, and work zone traffic control devices. The crash performance is judged on structural adequacy, occupant risk, and vehicle trajectory. Sober homes applying mash certified sober homes for annual recertification must remit payment of certification fees during the recertification process and prior to scheduling the home inspection. Presence and participation are required for both days to receive a certificate of attendance which is required for certification.
This has provided a significant step toward the implementation of MASH. If there are any changes to the sober home policies or sober home management, please notify MASH to update our files. An increase in beds will require an additional inspection to the sober home. Presence and participation are required for both days to receive a certificate of attendance.