Prospect House is a residential treatment and recovery center for alcoholic and chemically dependent men who are without the money, insurance or other resources to enter hospital-based programs.

Prospect House furnishes the necessities of life to these men while they actively seek a new way of life marked by sobriety and self-support.

We help men with the almost stupefying array of problems they bring with them to treatment: legal troubles, medical troubles, dental troubles, employment troubles---it goes on and on, and yet these problems, so sharp-edged and painful upon admission to the program usually are resolved by the time a resident is ready for discharge, about six months later, or, in the case of the men in our transitional housing component (part of the same campus), about 18 months on average.

Providing long-term treatment to low-bottom alcoholics and addicts compares in complexity to reorganizing a beaver dam back into living, growing trees and bushes. It is one of the most profoundly anti-entropic human activities available. Our joy is to put our men back to work, or into college, and back into functioning families, as effective and honest husbands and fathers, men who can work, and men who can love and be loved. Men who can pay taxes, men who can vote. This is as radical a transformation as any hospital\'s med-surge floor could hope for-and maybe more so.