Women’s sober living at 619 Recovery is apartment-style recovery housing for women ages 18 to 35 in downtown San Diego. The program is trauma-informed, gender-separate, and designed for working or studying through early recovery. The location at 501 7th Avenue, East Village, is walkable to AA and NA meetings, transit, and employment.
Women’s Sober Living · Downtown San Diego

Women’s Sober Living in San Diego

Apartment-style, trauma-informed sober living for women ages 18 to 35 in downtown San Diego. Safe, structured, and built for the kind of recovery you can actually live inside.

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What women’s sober living means here

For most women in early recovery, the difference between sober living that works and sober living that does not work is whether the environment feels safe enough to actually do the work. Trauma is woven into a majority of women’s recovery stories — the data from SAMHSA is consistent on this — and a mixed-gender, anything-goes house is rarely where that work happens.

619 Recovery’s women’s sober living is gender-separate by design, trauma-informed in approach, and built around the same kinds of structure men’s sober living uses (daily meetings, accountability, curfew, drug screening) with the additional layer of safety that gender-separate housing provides.

What is included

  • Furnished apartment-style rooms in a real apartment building, not a converted institutional space
  • Daily meetings within walking distance, including women’s-only meetings in downtown San Diego
  • Trauma-informed peer support from a house manager and the resident community
  • Working / school-friendly schedule — structure, not lockdown
  • Random drug screening as a community protection
  • Direct path to outpatient and clinical care in downtown San Diego if needed

Why gender-separate housing matters in early recovery

Recovery research is direct: in the first year, new romantic and sexual relationships are among the highest single contributors to relapse, particularly for women whose substance use is entangled with trauma or unsafe past relationships. Gender-separate sober living removes a layer of that risk so the foundational work — meetings, sponsor, sleep, work, family repair — can actually happen.

It also creates the right peer group. Living with other women in their twenties and thirties choosing recovery in the same downtown is the kind of environment a clinical setting cannot replicate.

Who women’s sober living at 619 Recovery fits

  • Women ages 18 to 35 leaving residential rehab
  • Women finishing IOP or PHP and stepping down to recovery housing
  • Women exiting a halfway house who are not ready for solo independent living
  • Women in their first year of recovery who want to live and work in downtown San Diego

If that fits, call (619) 431-4217 for a 10-minute conversation about openings, fit, and current pricing. We answer 24/7.

Reviewed by 619 Recovery Clinical Team. Last updated May 2026. Trauma-informed and gender-separate housing decisions are individual; fit is best assessed on a phone intake. Contact us.

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