When a person has overcome drug or alcohol addiction, it isn't as simple as resuming where you left off. Getting back to a successful and happy life takes time and a lot of hard work. A Halfway House, also called a Sober Living Facility, is an environment where recovering individuals can go where they can live in a sober and healthy setting until they are able to live stably on their own. Living in a Halfway House may be a condition of a person's probation for example, or the individual might decide to live in a Halfway House of their own will after drug or alcohol treatment. Either way, tenants of a Halfway House are clean and working towards doing what they need to do to get their lives back on track. This could mean finishing school, finding employment, etc.
Halfway Houses in Dale are managed by individuals who in most cases were once tenants of the house. How long an individual is allowed to remain at the Halfway House will differ, but it's typically anywhere from a month to a couple of years. Residents must comply with drug and alcohol testing before being accepted into the house, and this testing will continue frequently to be certain there is not any drug use in the house or substance abuse issues that would be more adequately addressed in an alcohol or drug treatment facility.