When someone has rehabilitated from a drug or alcohol addiction, it's not as easy as starting life again where you left off. Returning to a positive and happy life takes time and a great deal of hard work. A Halfway House, also known as a Sober Living Facility, is a setting where people in recovery can live in a sober and positive environment until they can live stably on their own. Living in a Halfway House may be a term of a person's probation or parole for example, or the individual might make the decision to live in a Halfway House of their own will following drug or alcohol rehab. In either case, occupants of a Halfway House are sober and working towards doing what they need to do to repair their lives. This could mean getting one's GED, getting employment, etc.
Halfway Houses in Mart are run by people who in most instances were once occupants of the house. The length of time an individual is allowed to remain at the Halfway House can vary, but it's usually anywhere from a month to a couple of years. Tenants are required to undergo drug and alcohol testing before entering the house, and this testing will continue regularly to be certain there is not any drug use in the house or addiction problems that would be more adequately dealt with in an addiction rehabilitation program.