When a person has rehabilitated from a substance abuse problem, it's not as easy as resuming where you left off. Getting back to a stable and happy life takes time and a lot of effort. A Halfway House, also known as a Sober Living Facility, is an environment where people in recovery can live in a clean and healthy setting until they can live confidently on their own. Living in a Halfway House may be a condition of a person's probation for example, or the individual may make the decision to live in a Halfway House of their own will following drug or alcohol rehab. Either way, tenants of a Halfway House are clean and striving to do what they need to do to repair their lives. This could mean, for example, finishing school, getting employment, etc.
Halfway Houses in Numa are run by people who in most cases were once tenants of the house. The duration an individual is permitted to live at the Halfway House can vary, but it's typically anywhere from a month to a couple of years. Tenants must undergo alcohol and drug testing before being accepted into the house, and this testing will happen randomly to ensure there is not any drug or alcohol use in the house or substance abuse problems that would be more effectively addressed in an addiction rehab facility.