About this Recovery Home
Cady Hill is a women's recovery residence in Columbus, Mississippi, in Lowndes County. Women live on site through a residential chemical dependency program run by Community Counseling Services, the region's community mental health center, and the program is certified by the Mississippi Department of Mental Health.
Who This Women's Recovery Housing Program Serves
This is a women's program, and every part of it is written for that. Adult women enter residential treatment here after detox or stabilization, live at the facility for the duration, and work through counseling, group sessions and recovery education delivered by clinical staff. The department classifies the setting as clinically managed low-intensity residential care, which describes a place where the structure comes from a daily schedule and professional oversight, with medical care drawn from outside when it is needed.
The Regional Commission Behind These Recovery Homes
Community Counseling Services is officially the Region VII Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities Commission. Mississippi divided itself into 14 mental health regions under the Regional Commission Act of 1972, following the federal Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963, and each region is governed by commissioners appointed by the boards of supervisors of the counties it covers, for four-year terms. The organization is a 501(c)(3) public nonprofit that receives no direct appropriation from the state budget. For a woman entering this program, that structure means the operator answers to a public board seated by her own county, and its funding follows the region it serves.
Certification and Oversight for Recovery Housing in Mississippi
Mississippi has no certifying body for peer recovery residences and no NARR affiliate, so nothing in this state publishes a certification level for a sober living home. What does exist is certification of clinical treatment programs by the Mississippi Department of Mental Health, and Cady Hill holds it. The department also licenses Community Counseling Services as a provider. Two separate reviews therefore sit behind this address, one of the program and one of the organization running it, and both are matters of public record.
A Residential Program on a Shared Recovery Housing Campus
Cady Hill occupies the same Columbus campus as The Pines, the men's program, at a single address on Main Street. The two are administered together and staffed by the same organization, and they remain separate programs with separate residents. A married couple or a pair of relatives seeking treatment at the same time will therefore find both served in the same city under one intake process, in different houses.
Recovery Homes for Women Across Seven East Mississippi Counties
Community Counseling Services covers seven counties, and Cady Hill is the residential option for women across all of them:
- Lowndes County, with offices in Columbus.
- Oktibbeha County, with offices in Starkville.
- Clay County, with offices in West Point.
- Noxubee County, with offices in Macon.
- Choctaw County, with offices in Ackerman.
- Webster County, with offices in Eupora.
- Winston County, with offices in Louisville.
That catchment stretches from the Golden Triangle west into the hill counties, and it is largely rural. For most of the women who come here, Columbus is the nearest residential treatment of any kind, and the local counseling office is where their care continues after discharge.
What to Ask Before Entering This Columbus Recovery Housing
Intake is scheduled through the counseling office in the applicant's home county, and the questions worth raising there are practical ones. How long the residential stay runs and whether a longer track exists. What the intake fee will be once income and insurance are counted. Whether children can visit and how family sessions are handled. What outpatient services pick up on discharge, and in which county office. Whether prescribed medication for opioid use disorder is continued during the stay. A publicly governed provider should give a straight answer to each.
