About this Recovery House
Sue B's House is a women's recovery home at 97 South Fourth Street in Ishpeming, Michigan, in Marquette County. Great Lakes Recovery Centers operates it, and MARR certifies it at Level 3 as female housing for women and children.
A Women's Recovery Home on South Fourth Street
South Fourth Street runs through Ishpeming's older residential grid a few blocks off the downtown business district, in a city of about six thousand on the Marquette Iron Range. The residence is a single-family home, which means a household of a handful of women sharing a kitchen, and a published street address, which is rare enough in Michigan recovery housing to be worth acting on: a family can see the street and the neighborhood before a move.
MARR Level 3 Certification for Women and Children
The Michigan Association of Recovery Residences lists this residence as Level 3 female housing for women and children. Level 3 describes supervised housing with organized programming and administrative oversight behind the household, one tier below clinically staffed housing on the National Alliance for Recovery Residences scale. Michigan has no license or registry for recovery residences, so certification is the only formal standard available, and it commits the house to a code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a documented relapse and discharge policy, and complaint review from outside the house.
A Sober House Where Children Can Stay
The women-and-children designation is the most consequential fact on this listing. Recovery housing that will not take a child forces a mother to choose between treatment and custody, and that choice ends a lot of recoveries in the first month. A residence built to hold both keeps a family in one place while a mother stabilizes, and it changes what a caseworker can put in a reunification plan. Anyone applying should confirm the current age limits and the arrangements for school and childcare directly with the operator.
Medication-Assisted Recovery in This Ishpeming Sober Living Home
Medication for opioid use disorder is accepted, and a felony record is not a bar to admission. In the Upper Peninsula, where prescribers are few and a missed appointment can mean a long drive, a residence that accommodates buprenorphine or methadone keeps a woman's treatment and her housing on the same footing. The house is not ADA accessible, which a woman with mobility needs should factor in before applying.
Great Lakes Recovery Centers and Upper Peninsula Recovery Housing
Great Lakes Recovery Centers has worked across Michigan's Upper Peninsula since the mid-1970s, running behavioral health services alongside its housing, and it states that its residences are certified by MARR and by the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. For a resident, the effect of an operator with a clinical arm is continuity: counseling, case management and housing sit inside one organization, so a referral does not become a cold call.
Recovery Housing in Ishpeming and Marquette County
Ishpeming is the second city of Marquette County, west of Marquette along US-41 and M-28, in the iron mining country that built the region. Marquette is the county seat and the largest city in the Upper Peninsula, holding the circuit court, UP Health System, Northern Michigan University and most of the county's outpatient treatment capacity. A woman living in Ishpeming keeps a small-town address and a cheaper cost of living while staying inside reach of all of it, which is a workable combination for someone rebuilding an income.
The maximum length of stay is one year. If you do not have a safe and sober living environment to return to once you have completed treatment, consider applying to Sue B's Recovery House.
