Recovery House, Inc. has been providing a plethora of services to alcoholics and drug addicts (and now gambling addicts) for over 35 years. We also offer our services to pregnant women and to intravenous drug users.  Recovery House, Inc. is an umbrella corporation comprised of two separate organizations: Grace House, in Rutland, Vermont and Serenity House, in Wallingford, Vermont.

Serenity House is where our treatment continuum begins. Serenity House provides social detoxification (medically assisted) beds, with twenty-four hour nursing. Client stay varies depending on the drug from which they are detoxing. While receiving services at Serenity House clients are not only medically stabilized they also take part in educational groups, participate in an assessment and receive referrals for continuing care services.

Serenity House is also a twenty-four bed residential treatment program providing treatment services to both men and women. The treatment stay lasts up to 21 days. During this time participants take part in many sobriety building activities including educational groups, small groups, health and wellness groups, as well as 12 step meetings. Each participant is paired with an individual counselor in addition to the group activities.

The counselor helps to guide the participant on a more individualized journey through his or her treatment experience. If participants are ready for the life change which sobriety requires then Serenity House can be an incredible place for personal growth to occur. In June of 2005, Serenity House received its third three year CARF accreditation. CARF is a nationally recognized accrediting agency which certifies that the residential treatment program at Serenity House is consumer driven with state of the art levels of performance in our field.

Grace House is a twelve bed therapeutic community providing a continuum of care for clients who have completed residential treatment. When there is a bed available at Grace House applicants go through an extensive interview process culminating with a dinner interview at Grace House. This interview gives current residents an opportunity to get to know and question the prospective housemate. While to some this process may seem demanding, Grace House is a precious commodity as there is no other place like it in the state of Vermont.

Grace House not only provides sober living, it also boasts experienced counselors who provide individual, as well as group, counseling to all who reside there. Residents of Grace House find jobs, attend 12 step meetings and pay rent while adjusting to sober living in a safe and nurturing environment. Those new to the house quickly feel the family atmosphere which abounds. In order to complete the program residents must stay ninety days. After the ninety day completion residents are transitioned into other phases of the program based on individual needs and may take part in the over all process for up to a year.


Recovery House, Inc. secured the state funded contract to provide Public Inebriate services for Rutland County as of July 1, 2007. As part of the services provided above and beyond this contract there are up to five beds available at our Grace House site to divert Public Inebriates from the local correction facility. The success of this program has been seen in the number of inebriates being lodging at the correctional facility having drop by half as well as having about 10% of public inebriates choosing to enter into the detox program, thus increasing their chances of recovery and a new way of life.

Recovery House, Inc., 98 Church St., Wallingford, VT 05773  Tel. 802.446.2640