Sober living in Anne Arundel County

The house for women is in the Ellicott City area, 35 minutes by car from Severna Park and 45 from Annapolis. Severn Home also has a house for men in Silver Spring, Maryland, and one in Alexandria, Virginia. All seven are on the houses page.

The Arnold house is for men, twelve to a house. Rooms start at $1,500 a month. The house has private and semi-private bedrooms, a full kitchen, a full gym, a hot tub and an outdoor pool.

It is 10 minutes by car from Severna Park, 15 from Annapolis and from Odenton, and 20 from Davidsonville.

The Crownsville house is for men, twelve to a house. Rooms start at $1,200 a month. It is close to Annapolis and Washington, D.C., and has a full kitchen, a full gym, a hot tub and an outdoor pool.

It is 10 minutes by car from Odenton, 15 from Davidsonville and from Severna Park, and 20 from Annapolis.

The Gambrills house is for men, twelve to a house, and is 6,295 square feet. Rooms start at $1,200 a month. The house has a full kitchen, a full gym, a hot tub and an outdoor pool.

It is 10 minutes by car from Odenton, 20 from Davidsonville, 25 from Severna Park, and 30 from Annapolis.

The Pasadena house is for men, twelve to a house, and is 5,596 square feet. Rooms start at $1,200 a month. It is the one house in the county with two full kitchens, and it has a full gym, a hot tub and an outdoor pool.

Drive times from Pasadena to the towns around it are not published yet. Ask when you call.

Minutes by car from four towns in the county, nearest house first. Annapolis is the county seat.

Drive times to Pasadena are not published; ask when you call. For Columbia, Laurel, Elkridge and the other Maryland towns we publish, see the town pages.

At all four houses the rent includes Wi-Fi, televisions, a full kitchen for your own meal preparation, a full gym with workout equipment for all residents, a hot tub open all year, and an outdoor pool open through the spring and summer months. Pasadena has two full kitchens.

Where it is offered, a room shared by two is $1,200 a month, and a room of your own is $1,500 to $1,800. Not every rate is offered at every home. Some houses also have rooms shared by three; ask which when you call. Arnold starts at $1,500; Crownsville, Gambrills and Pasadena start at $1,200.

The first year at Severn Home runs in five stages. For your first 30 days you go to four recovery meetings a week, attend every house activity and work toward a sponsor in the fellowship you prefer. You sign in and out when you leave, and there is a curfew. A mentor chosen for what you have in common checks in daily for that first month, introduces you to the other residents and takes you to an outside meeting at least once a week.

From day 30, you may take one overnight pass every other week, and the job search begins if you are not already working. From day 90, an overnight pass one day a week, a later curfew, and no more signing in and out. From day 150, no curfew and no set wake-up time, and you work full time or study. After a year, the rules mostly lift. We recommend a minimum stay of one year.

Curfew and wake-up times, visitors, cars and phones are house details to ask about when you call. Every house is substance-free; testing, and what follows a return to use, are house policies to ask about on your first call.

Severn Home is housing, not treatment. We encourage every resident to keep working with outside providers, whether that is a private therapist, an outside intensive outpatient program or another evidence-based option, and to stay connected to a recovery fellowship.

Call or text 443-223-7403. Say who the room is for and the day they leave treatment, then ask which of the four houses could have a room, and the rent for that room. Phone support is Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. You can also email [email protected].