About this Recovery Home
The McCoy House Extended Care for Women is a women's recovery residence in Jackson, Mississippi, in Hinds County. The nonprofit behind it has housed women in the capital since 2008, on seven gated acres inside the city.
A Women's Recovery Residence on Seven Gated Acres
Seven acres behind a gate, inside a city of this size, is an unusual footprint for recovery housing. The gate is the part residents notice. A woman arriving from treatment, from jail or from a situation she is trying to leave behind gets a controlled front door and grounds that belong to the house, which removes a category of worry that follows women into ordinary rental housing. Every resident is a woman, and the household runs on one set of expectations written for one population.
Nine Women in a Five-Bedroom Sober Living Home
The residence holds up to nine women in five bedrooms, in a two-story house of roughly five thousand square feet. That number is the defining fact of the place. Nine people is a household, small enough that the women living there know each other's names, schedules and warning signs, and small enough that a newcomer cannot disappear into the back of a large program. It also means beds are scarce, and applying early is the difference between a placement and a waiting list. A call made on the day of discharge is usually too late.
What Extended Care Means in a Women's Sober House
Extended care describes where this residence sits in a person's timeline. It follows detox and residential treatment, at the stage when the clinical hours have dropped and the practical work begins: employment, a driver's license, custody, restitution, a doctor, a bank account. Housing is the variable that decides whether any of that holds. A woman who leaves treatment at thirty days and returns to the address she used from has a different year ahead of her than a woman who spends that year in a stable house with eight other people doing the same work.
Certification and Oversight of Recovery Homes in Mississippi
Mississippi has no recovery residence certifying body, and no affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences operates in the state. No Mississippi sober house holds a certification level, because nobody here issues one. Clinical treatment programs are certified separately by the state, and peer recovery housing falls outside that system entirely. What a woman can verify instead is the operator: how long it has run, whether it is a registered nonprofit, who sits on its board, and what it will put in writing about fees, rules and discharge before she signs.
Recovery Housing in Jackson and Hinds County
Jackson is the state capital and the seat of Hinds County, and it holds the concentration of resources a woman in extended care needs at once: the courts, the University of Mississippi Medical Center, outpatient providers, meetings at most hours, and the largest job market in the state. Women arrive here from the rural counties across central Mississippi because their home towns have no women's recovery housing at all, and the capital is where a full week's worth of appointments can be kept without a two-hour drive.
How to Reach This Jackson Recovery Residence
The residence does not publish its street address, and placement runs through the operator, which handles inquiries by mail and by phone from its Jackson offices. Ask what the application involves and how long the process takes, what a resident pays and what that covers, what the expectations are around work and program attendance, whether prescribed medication for opioid use disorder is accepted, and how long women typically stay. A small residence with a long waiting list will be direct about all of it.
Mercy Lodge serves as a space for yoga, groups, meetings and events. Separate from the event space is a kitchen, dining room, four bedrooms, four bathrooms, and a courtyard.
