About this Recovery House
Amanda's House is a women's recovery residence in Three Rivers, Michigan, in St. Joseph County. It is a five-bed home certified at Level 3 by the Michigan Association of Recovery Residences and operated by Hope United. The program runs six to twelve months, and the rate is $125 per week.
A Five-Bed Women's Sober House in Three Rivers
Five residents at a time is small, and that is the defining fact about the place. A woman is not one of thirty in a congregate building; she is one of five in a house, with the level of attention and the level of exposure that implies. The operator describes a home-like atmosphere that accepts women where they are, and the aim is a set of tools for healing and self-sufficiency. The street address is not published, and placement goes through Hope United.
A Six to Twelve Month Recovery Housing Program
The stated program length is six to twelve months, which is long by the standards of recovery housing and closer to the horizon research associates with durable outcomes. Regular programming runs alongside the housing. For a woman deciding between a thirty-day placement and a year, the difference is whether she has time to hold a job, repair a relationship and save something before the housing ends.
What MARR Level 3 Certification Establishes Here
Level 3 is supervised recovery housing under the standards of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences, meaning staff, oversight and a written program a resident follows. Michigan does not license or register recovery residences at all, so certification is voluntary and it is the only outside standard a Michigan sober house can be held to. It obliges the residence to publish a code of ethics, disclose fees and rules in writing before move-in, keep a written relapse and discharge policy, and accept complaint review from outside the house.
Weekly Fees at This Three Rivers Sober Living Home
The rate is $125 per week, and the operator states that help is available before a resident has secured employment. That answers the question a woman leaving treatment with no income actually has, and it is the first thing to confirm in writing.
Medication-Assisted Recovery in This Women's Recovery Home
Women on prescribed medication for opioid use disorder are accepted, and a felony record does not close the door. In a five-bed house those policies are decided by the operator and stated on the public certification record, so a woman can check them before she applies.
Recovery Housing in St. Joseph County
Three Rivers is the largest city in St. Joseph County, named for the meeting of the St. Joseph, Portage and Rocky rivers, with the county seat and the courthouse at Centreville a few miles north. The city holds the county's hospital and most of its outpatient capacity, and it sits on the US-131 corridor between Kalamazoo and the Indiana line, so a resident can reach specialty care in Kalamazoo County when the local schedule is full. Certified recovery housing in this rural county is rare, and a women's home in Three Rivers is often the closest one to home.
