About this Recovery House
St. Marie's House of Serenity is a women's sober house in Ypsilanti, Michigan, in Washtenaw County. It is a six-bed single-family home certified at Level 1 by the Michigan Association of Recovery Residences, and the fee is $550 per month.
A Six-Bed Women's Sober House in Ypsilanti
Six women share the house, and the operator describes the setting as home-like. At that size, everyone knows who did the dishes and who came in late, and there is nowhere to be anonymous. Each resident holds a role in the household, whether that is a share of the chores or responsibility for following and upholding the house rules. The address is kept private, and the first contact is with the operator.
Peer-Run Recovery Housing at MARR Level 1
Level 1 in the framework of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences is the peer-run tier: residents govern the household themselves, share the work, and hold each other to the rules, with no paid staff living on site. It is the least common certification in Michigan and it suits a particular resident, someone with a stretch of sobriety behind her who wants accountability from housemates and the freedom to run her own week. A woman leaving detox who needs supervision is looking at the wrong tier. Michigan does not license recovery residences at all, so the certification level is the clearest published signal of how a house actually operates.
House Meetings and Community Service in This Recovery Home
Residents are required to take part in house meetings, house activities, community service work and recovery programming. The meetings are how a peer-run household makes decisions, and attendance is not a formality when six women are dividing the cost and the labor of a house. Community service is written into the program, which is a reasonable proxy for what the residence expects a resident's week to look like.
Monthly Fees at This Ypsilanti Sober Living Home
The fee is $550 per month. A prospective resident should establish what it covers, what a deposit looks like, and how the house handles a month when someone falls behind, since in a peer-run home those consequences land on the other residents.
Medication-Assisted Recovery in This Women's Recovery Residence
Women on prescribed medication for opioid use disorder are accepted, and applicants with felony records are accepted. Both are stated on the public certification record, which makes them checkable before an application is filed.
Recovery Housing in Ypsilanti and Washtenaw County
Ypsilanti sits on the Huron River east of Ann Arbor, the Washtenaw County seat, and the two cities share a transit system, a labor market and a hospital network. Eastern Michigan University is in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Community College sits between the two, and the county's courts and Community Mental Health services are a short ride west. Rents in Ypsilanti run below Ann Arbor's, which is part of why Washtenaw County recovery housing has settled here, and a resident can reach class, work and treatment on the AAATA network.
