The Basics
Located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, The Fellowship Home is a 12-step based, non-sectarian, nonprofit halfway house for men 18 to 65 years of age with substance abuse issues. It occupies a historic home built in 1917 and opened its doors as a sober living facility in 1962.
Accommodations and Amenities
Fellowship offers 10 beds in a two-story house. There are five rooms that clients share two to a room. Two shared bathrooms are available. One of them is attached to a shared bedroom located downstairs while the second is upstairs, with a dorm-style layout featuring two showers, two stalls and two sinks. One of the bedrooms, which is reserved for those with seniority, has its own bathroom for a total of three baths.
Food is included and a cook makes dinner six nights a week. Clients prepare breakfast and lunch themselves. Since residents tend to be lower income, Fellowship asks that they sign over their food stamps if they have them so they may be used to provide communal food.
Rules and Regulations
All clients are expected to be employed and to observe a 10 pm curfew. On house meeting day, the curfew is shortened to 6 pm. Twelve-step meetings take place every day, though not on days when the house meeting takes up that time slot. After the first 45 days, residents may become eligible for overnight passes, cell phone use and TV privileges.
Fellowship offers relapse prevention, which can last up to two years and requires clients to make a three-month commitment. The maximum length of stay for basic services is nine months, though the average stay is six months. A residential stay is followed by up to 21 months of aftercare.
The program offers individual and group therapy with certified or licensed substance abuse counselors. The facility is monitored 24/7 by on-site staff and freedom increases as clients move through the program.
Staff consists of a house manager and assistant house manager/cook, the program director, two certified counselors and a part-time case manager who counsels clients twice a week and assesses their progress.
Extras
Fellowship also offers CBT services upon request. The alumni association holds an annual reunion each September and the New Horizons program offers permanent housing for seniors, if they have successfully completed a structured residential substance abuse program.
In Summary
The Fellowship Home has many years of experience under its belt, with a range of services that are as good as any basic sober living facility (though with some treatment available, too). Fees are extremely low, with clients paying on a sliding scale based on their income, which allows for a minimum weekly cost of $75 and a maximum of only $100. Whether Fellowship is the right sobriety resource for a particular resident may be a matter of taste, but many will likely do well by considering this facility.
The Fellowship Home
661 N Spring St
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
The Fellowship Home Cost: $300–$400 (30 days). Reach The Fellowship Home by phone at (336) 727-1084 or by email at info@thefellowshiphome.org. Find The Fellowship Home on Facebook
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