About this Recovery House
Elizabeth's House is a women's recovery residence in Menominee, Michigan, the seat of Menominee County. Catholic Social Services of the Upper Peninsula opened it in 2024, and MARR certifies it at Level 3 for female housing.
A Women's Recovery Residence in Menominee
The house is a single-family home for women in recovery, in the southernmost city in the Upper Peninsula. Its street address is not published and placement is arranged through Catholic Social Services. Menominee sits where the Menominee River empties into Green Bay, directly across the water from Marinette, Wisconsin, and the two cities function as one town split by a state line. It is the county seat and keeps Central time.
MARR Level 3 Certification for This Women's Sober Living Home
Certification through the Michigan Association of Recovery Residences is voluntary, and it is the only formal standard for recovery housing anywhere in the state. Level 3 describes supervised housing with organized programming and an administrative structure behind it. Holding it commits the residence to the code of ethics used by the National Alliance for Recovery Residences, to written disclosure of fees and rules before a woman moves in, to a documented relapse and discharge policy, and to complaint review from outside the house. For a residence that opened recently, certification is the fastest way for a prospective resident to establish that the operation is not improvised.
How This Menominee Sober House Works Day to Day
Residents live in a self-run household with a certified peer recovery coach as house manager. The requirements are sobriety, outpatient substance use counseling, weekly recovery meetings of the resident's own choosing, an active job search, daily living skills, and a plan that ends in independent housing. Women with felony records are accepted. In a county of about twenty-three thousand people with a tight rental market, that acceptance decides whether a woman leaving custody has anywhere to go.
Medication-Assisted Recovery in This Recovery Home
Medication for opioid use disorder is accepted. Prescribers are sparse across the western Upper Peninsula, and losing housing over a prescription usually means losing the prescription too. A residence that accommodates buprenorphine or methadone keeps a woman's treatment plan and her address pointing the same direction.
Recovery Housing on the Michigan and Wisconsin State Line
Menominee's practical geography is binational in the way border towns are: the county courthouse, the harbor, the historic downtown and the county's outpatient services are on the Michigan side, and Marinette adds hospital care, retail employment and a larger job market a bridge away. The nearest Michigan cities of any size, Escanaba and Iron Mountain, are each an hour or so up the highway. For women in Menominee County, this is the recovery housing option that does not require leaving the county, and that proximity to family, children and a probation officer is often the whole point.
What to Ask Before Applying to This Menominee Recovery Home
Applications go through Catholic Social Services of the Upper Peninsula. The fee schedule is already published: PHIP covers the first sixty days for residents with state insurance, then $315 a month for two months, then $630 a month, with commercial insurance holders paying $630 a month from the start. What is left to ask is the house-level detail: how many women share a bedroom, whether the house manager lives on site, what the testing schedule is, how the first week works, what happens after a relapse, and how long a resident may stay once she is employed.
