About this Recovery House
Elmhurst Home - Naomi's Nest is a women's recovery residence on Pitkin Street in Highland Park, Michigan, in Wayne County. It is the women's facility of Elmhurst Home, holds Level 4 certification from the Michigan Association of Recovery Residences, and is covered by Medicaid with no out-of-pocket cost to eligible residents.
A Women's Recovery Residence in Highland Park
Naomi's Nest is the house Elmhurst Home runs for women, kept separate from the men's facility a few minutes away in Detroit. Every resident is a woman, and the household, the staff and the programming are organized around that. The setting is congregate, with staff on site and clinical services delivered in the building, and the residence is recorded as ADA accessible. Pitkin Street sits in the residential grid of Highland Park, a small independent city enclosed by Detroit on all sides.
Medicaid-Funded Recovery Housing for Women
The recovery housing program is designed for women with Medicaid, and eligible residents pay nothing out of pocket. A woman leaving treatment, a shelter or custody with no income can take a bed here, which removes the deposit and the first month that end most housing searches before they start. The organization commits to serving anyone who requests care regardless of ability to pay, and offers a sliding scale to women outside coverage.
Level 4 Certification and What It Means in a Women's Sober House
Level 4 is the top tier in the framework of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences: credentialed staff, a service provider model, and treatment delivered on site instead of referred out. For a woman early out of detox who is not ready to manage an unstructured week, that is the practical difference between this house and a peer-run home with a curfew. Michigan has no licensure or registry for recovery residences, so the certification tier is the clearest published signal of how much support a residence supplies.
Fifty Years of Recovery Housing in One Community
Elmhurst Home was founded in 1972 and has worked the same part of Wayne County for more than five decades, adding outpatient care, prevention and behavioral health services around the housing, and operating as a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic since 2021. Longevity is a credential a resident can act on: the organization is known to the courts, the health network and the funders, and referrals move through channels that already exist.
Medication, Records and Access at This Recovery Home
Women on medication for opioid use disorder are accepted, and applicants with felony records are accepted. Support from the Michigan Department of Corrections and the Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network is part of how the program is funded, which tells a woman coming out of custody that she is not an exception here.
Recovery Housing in Highland Park and Wayne County
Highland Park is its own city, roughly three square miles, surrounded by Detroit and served by the same regional transit, courts and hospital systems. Woodward Avenue runs along its western edge, connecting it to downtown Detroit in one direction and the Oakland County suburbs in the other. The address gives a resident a quieter residential setting with the full weight of Wayne County's treatment capacity, probation offices and entry-level employment inside a short ride, and it keeps her outside the neighborhood where her use happened while staying close to family.
