About this Recovery House
19345 Westmore is a women's sober living home on Westmore Street in Livonia, Michigan, in Wayne County. It is one of three recovery homes run by The Doorway to Recovery in the western suburbs of Detroit, and the only one of the three that houses women.
A Women's Sober House in Livonia
The house serves women in recovery, and a single-gender household settles a great deal before anyone moves in. Bathrooms, bedrooms, house meetings and common space all belong to one population, and one set of expectations covers everybody living there. Westmore Street sits in a quiet pocket of northwest Livonia between Seven Mile and Eight Mile, the kind of residential block where a curfew is easy to keep and a car is not the only way to get to a meeting.
How Michigan Certifies a Recovery Residence
Michigan has no state license, registry or permit for recovery housing. Certification runs through the Michigan Association of Recovery Residences, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences, and joining is voluntary. That matters when comparing houses in metro Detroit, because the certification standard is the closest thing Michigan has to a published rulebook: a code of ethics, fees and house rules disclosed in writing before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint process that reaches past the house. Plenty of good homes in the state operate outside it. A woman comparing options can still ask for each of those four things in writing, and any well-run house will hand them over.
What a Women's Recovery Home Is Built to Do
Recovery housing in Livonia does one job: it supplies a stable address and a predictable week while treatment, work and family repair happen somewhere else. Residents keep their own therapists, prescribers and meetings. The house supplies housemates who are doing the same thing at the same time, which is the part that no outpatient schedule provides. For women leaving detox, residential treatment or a jail sentence, that combination of a fixed address and a peer household is usually the practical difference between a plan and a relapse.
Getting Around From a Livonia Sober House
Livonia is the largest city in western Wayne County and sits inside the I-96, I-275 and M-14 triangle, with Detroit, the county seat, twenty minutes east down Plymouth Road. SMART regional buses run the major mile roads, which puts warehouse, retail and health system jobs in Livonia, Farmington Hills and Westland within reach before a resident owns a car. Wayne County's courts, probation offices and community mental health services are concentrated in Detroit, so a woman meeting a court obligation can do it without leaving the county.
What to Ask This Livonia Recovery Home First
Applications go through The Doorway to Recovery. The questions that separate one women's sober house from another are concrete: what the weekly fee covers and what it does not, whether a house manager lives on site or visits, how bedrooms are assigned and how many women share one, what happens on the day after a relapse, whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted, and how long a resident may stay once she is working. Ask for the answers in writing before signing anything.
The homes feature a warm and welcome feel throughout. The Westmore Houses offer shared rooms. Included in the program/housing fees are: Toilet paper, paper towel, household cleaning supplies, WiFi, Cable TV, and a home phone.
