About this Recovery Home
Masada Recovery House is a women's sober living home in Farmington, New Mexico, in San Juan County, on North Dustin Avenue. Masada House, Inc. has run it since 2009 as a transitional home for women coming out of treatment.
A Women's Recovery Home on North Dustin Avenue
North Dustin Avenue runs through central Farmington a short distance from the main east to west corridor, which puts the house within reach of work, meetings and appointments without a car. Residents are women eighteen and older who are in recovery from substance use. A single-gender house settles the sleeping arrangements and the house rules in one decision, and for women who have been through violence or exploitation, it settles a good deal more than that.
What This Farmington Sober Living Program Asks of Residents
The house is described as structured and focused, and its purpose is to let a woman practice the skills she learned in treatment while support is still around her. Case management, life skills work, support groups, substance use education and health education are part of the stay. Residents work toward accountability in concrete terms: managing money, keeping a job, keeping commitments, and building relationships that are not organized around using. Twelve step meetings and relapse prevention support are available, and the program helps with parenting, financial planning, goal setting, employment and continuing education.
More Than Fifteen Years of Recovery Housing for Women
Masada House was founded in 2009 on the proposition that every woman deserves a chance at a life free of the burden of substance abuse. Longevity is a real signal in this field. Sober housing turns over constantly, and a nonprofit that has held a single address in a small city for that long has survived funding gaps, staff changes and the ordinary difficulty of the work. The organization runs on donations and community fundraising, including an annual benefit concert, and it recruits its board locally.
Recovery Residence Oversight in New Mexico
New Mexico has no certification, licensing or registration scheme for recovery residences, and no state affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. Nothing about that is specific to this house or to Farmington. It does mean a woman comparing options has to do the checking herself: ask for the rules and the monthly cost in writing, ask how long a resident may stay, ask whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted, and ask what happens after a relapse.
San Juan County Sober Living in the Four Corners
Farmington is the largest city in San Juan County and the commercial center of the Four Corners, though Aztec to the northeast is the county seat. The county borders the Navajo Nation, and Farmington serves as the service hub for a population spread across a very large area. The program covers San Juan County residents. Women leaving treatment in Shiprock, Bloomfield, Kirtland or Aztec generally find that Farmington holds the jobs, the meetings and the outpatient providers, and that the nearest comparable set of options is in Albuquerque, far to the south.
More on The Sober House
Sober living homes are group residences for people who are recovering from addiction. In most instances, people who live in sober homes have to follow certain house rules and contribute to the home by doing chores. Most importantly, residents must stay sober throughout their stay in the home
