Next Chance (The Farm) is not just a sober house! The beautiful backyard here on a 1.6 acre lot is not only a beautfully updated home but is also the home to a small farm where the women have the opportunity to care for the animals as well as grow a variety of vegetable in the garden. Next Chance promotes a family environment. The women here support one another by holding each other accountable, asking for help when needed, and celebrating each other's successes. This house is has a amazing structure and support system in place. To learn more about this amazing sober house, click on the link to go to their website.

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Next Chance LLC also has another beautiful home a short distance away in East Falmouth known as "Round Pond". This house offers all the structure and support you find at The Farm with a focus on more of a "graduate" program.

Thank you to Lowell House Addiction Treatment and Recovery for inviting us to visit the Saving Grace House in Lowell, MA. Thank you to Victoria Nesto and Tiffany Foster for giving us the tour and allowing me to share my experience with the the women. Saving Grace is a permanent sober home for women over 18 that have at least six months of sober time. It is a beautiful Victorian home that provides affordable sober living at a graduate level. Saving Grace is part of LHATR which provides a host of residential programs including male and female sober living, halfway houses, and their new adolescent house in Reading , MA serving 13 17 yr old male and females. Click the link to learn more about LHATR.

Chelsea's House, established in 2011, is a community of people who are transitioning from treatment into living life clean in the real world. We pride ourselves as a "judgment-free" community.

We promote a family-based experience to share life's highs and lows together and be supportive of each other.

Our family way of life will provide a safe and clean environment that is ideal for continuing long-term recovery.

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Locations in East Boston and Lynn, MA

A beautiful home located in Quincy, MA. Graceland Recovery is a structured house that offers a safe transitional platform where women in recovery thrive and learn to grow into their full potential. Women are provided 12 step work, volunteer work, yoga, writing, meditation, crafts, cooking, academic and career support. At Graceland Recovery, women are expected to embrace a high level of accountability with an emphasis on independant living.

If you would like to learn more about Graceland Recovery, please contact Jackie at 781-307-3405

Clean Living is a women's sober home located at 100 Highland Ave in Attleboro, MA. At Clean Living, they are seriuos about recovery and are committed to doing the work. If you would like to learn more about this house, please contact (owner) Rachel Dylewicz at 774-242-2389.

From Andrea DeCotis, owner or Rise Above ...

“Our calling is to provide a safe harbor from which re overlong individuals can heal and grow. It is our experience that those suffering in active addiction are wonderful people afflicted with a horrible disease. Addiction does not only ravage the lives of those who are actively using, but also the lives of those who love them the most. We believe that structure, support, and community programs are the vessels by which our residents return to the stream of life. 

Our collective background has taught us that action steps are a necessary part of transforming into our best and most genuine selves. The Rise Above team is here to help residents take these action steps. We offer not only shelter from the storm but a framework intended to facilitate upward movement. One cannot board the vessel of recovery without taking the steps. We have crafted the ladder... and we are here to help you climb.”

Last night the ladies of Rise Again had the honor to visit Good Marks Recovery House for Women. There we met Patience Fiattor. Miss Patience, as the women call her, is the owner/director here in Lawrence, Ma. After a tour of this beautiful house, the women invited us to attend their house meeting and gave me the opportunity to tell Sabrina’s story. Thank you all for listening and I hope it helps remind you what needs to come first in life, your sobriety ️Miss Patience is an RN by trade, but being the director/owner of Good Marks is her passion. In her field or work, Miss Patience has seen so many women suffer from this disease. She has watched as short-term treatment has women ending up back in a dark place. So she stepped up to be the change and opened a quality sober house to support women on the journey to recovery. Thank you Patience Fiattor, the world needs more people like you ️Good Marks is a MASH-certified sober home in Lawrence, MA. The staff here is committed to providing a structured, stable, and positive atmosphere for women recovering from the disease of addiction. If you would like to learn more about Good Marks, please email goodmarks247@gmail.com

Helen Barry, Maryellen Tango-Yianacopolus, and I took a drive to the Cape to visit a very special house. Sandalwood Sober House is located in Mashpee, MA. Sandalwood offers a safe and supportive environment for women to focus on recovery. Thank you to Andrea for inviting us to visit and for helping us to make connections in the community so we can provide support to women in need. Thank you to all the women for listening to Sabrina’s story and all the offers of help. I will be taking each of you up on that! Beautiful house, beautiful neighborhood, wonderful people ️.

If you would like to learn more about Sandalwood Sober House, please contact Joe Weinstein at (774) 222-2507.

Amy's Place provides constant support and guidance in a safe place to grow. Here a woman can live away from outside pressures, and build meaningful, sober relationships with other females. They provide each tenant with a free gym membership to Rocky's Gym and offer complimentary yoga classes at the house. Amy's House provides lab uninalysis, 12 Step resources, medication management, wifi, an more.

To learn more about Amy's Place, please click the link or give Cathy Rodriques a call at 508-274-4806 or email cathyrn19@gmail.com.

Rise Again: The Sabrina Best Foundation Maryellen Tango-Yianacopolus Helen Barry and myself visited Nicki’s Place in Braintree, MA.

Thank you to everyone for taking the time to listen to Sabrina’s story. I hope it is a story that will stay with you, a reminder of how beautiful recovery can be and why it must come first.

Nicki’s Place is a MASH-certified home located close to MBTA bus and train lines.

It is a family atmosphere of women working in a program of recovery while developing a network of sober support. Regardless of when a resident moves out, Nicki’s Place will always be home.

If you would like to learn more about Nicki’s Place, please contact them at 781-249-2644.

Rise Again: The Sabrina Best Foundation Maryellen Tango-Yianacopolus Helen Barry and myself visited Nicki’s Place in Braintree, MA.

Thank you to everyone for taking the time to listen to Sabrina’s story. I hope it is a story that will stay with you, a reminder of how beautiful recovery can be and why it must come first.

Nicki’s Place is a MASH-certified home located close to MBTA bus and train lines.

It is a family atmosphere of women working in a program of recovery while developing a network of sober support. Regardless of when a resident moves out, Nicki’s Place will always be home.

If you would like to learn more about Nicki’s Place, please contact them at 781-249-2644.

Rise Again: The Sabrina Best Foundation had the honor to visit and tour The Bennington House in Quincy, MA. At Bennington House you can expect a supportive and safe enviorment to continue the journey of recovery and create a responsible, independant lifestyle. With both sober homes for women along with a graduate house for women, there is a perfect spot for everyone. If you would like to learn more about Bennington House, please contact Mel at 508-982-6491.

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Halfway House 

On behalf of Rise Again: The Sabrina Best Foundation, Kyla Best and I delivered “Fresh Start” baskets to the Edwina Martin House in Brockton. The Edwina Martin House is one of the state’s first recovery homes, designed specifically for women. They offer services to up to 21 women and can accommodate up to 4 infants at a time. The Edwina Martin House welcomes women from throughout the state, from detoxification units and short-term rehab centers.

Many women come here from incarceration, as well as, homelessness having limited belongings or nothing but the clothes on their backs.

The Edwina Martin House has relationships with many local health services. Through these relationships, they are able to provide pregnant and post-partum women the opportunity to begin recovery and motherhood simultaneously, with better health outcomes for both mother and child. By treating each woman with dignity while stressing personal responsibility, Edwina Martin House offers recovering mothers, daughters, and sisters a chance for a new beginning.

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Halfway House

Rise Again got out for an early morning visit to the Glenice Sheehan Woman’s Recovery Home in Tewksbury, MA today.

The program is an innovative and unique residential program serving chronic substance abuse in women 18yrs and older.

They promote a social model of graduated care, designed to return women complete, sober functioning individuals.

At Glenice Sheehan participants are provided individual and group counseling, assigned case manager, HIV prevention education, and assistance in vocational training, obtaining mental health services, and securing permanent housing!

Thank you for all you do!

Last night, Maryellen Tango-Yianacopolus and myself visited Ruth's Way For Women in Lynn, MA.

Ruth’s Way is a faith-based recovery community focused on assisting women transitioning to healthy lifestyles.

Ruth’s Way was established to assist, encourage, guide, and educate women to accept, receive, and walk boldly in the power, love, and self-discipline that has been given to us by God.

A safe and healthy environment to rebuild a life ️

If you would like more information about Ruth’s Way for Women, please contact Nicole O’Brien at 857-361-9913 or visit www.ruthswayforwomen.org

Halfway House

Project Cope is a Bridgewell Women's Program located in Lynn, MA. It is a six-month residential treatment program for women with substance use disorders.

The program serves women from diverse backgrounds, circumstances, and age groups, all of whom share the same struggle with addiction.

The program offers women case management, individualized treatment planning, parenting groups, access to educational and vocational training, counseling for bereavement and trauma issues, supported access to medical, mental health, psychiatric services, and after-care planning.

Women move through distinct program phases as they progress and prepare to reintegrate into the community.

LIV Recovery House is a beautiful home located in a quiet, residential neighborhood, close to town, in Lowell, MA. LIV Recovery believes that a structured sober environment is imperitive to long term sobriety. They provide a safe, structured, and supportive environment focused on helping women develop the independant living skills necessary to transition into a healthier lifestyle. If you would like to learn more about LIV Recovery, please visit their website at www.livrecoveryhomes.com