About this Recovery House
The Hedgerow Apartment Program is a coed supportive living residence at 994 Route 67 in Ballston Spa, New York, the seat of Saratoga County. Six people in recovery from alcohol or drug addiction live here in furnished double-unit apartments, supported by recovery coaches, with emergency help on call at any hour. It is run by RISE Housing and Support Services.
A Six-Person Sober Living Household in Ballston Spa
Six residents is small on purpose. Everyone knows everyone, a coach can work with a person on their actual week instead of a caseload average, and the apartments are furnished so someone arriving from treatment with two bags can move in the same day. Men and women both live in the program, in separate apartment units. Route 67 runs east from Ballston Spa toward Malta and the Northway, which puts jobs along the corridor and the county's services in the village within reasonable reach.
What Recovery Coaching Looks Like in This Recovery Home
RISE describes the work as helping residents make a successful, substance-free transition back into the community, and the published services say how:
- Twenty-four hour emergency on-call support.
- Trauma-informed recovery coaching and goal setting.
- Relapse prevention and independent living skills.
- Linkage to outpatient counseling.
- Help getting to self-help meetings.
- Vocational training and social and recreational activities.
Fees are set by the cost of the program and by what a resident can pay, and RISE accepts wages, unemployment benefits, Social Security income and private insurance toward them.
Who Qualifies for This Saratoga County Sober House
Applicants must be eighteen or older, carry a primary substance use diagnosis, and be clean and sober at the time of referral and admission. They are expected to show a commitment to recovery and to be actively engaged in inpatient or intensive outpatient programming. Referrals come from agencies, families and employers, and people can refer themselves. Priority goes to Saratoga County, and out-of-county referrals are accepted.
Recovery Housing in Ballston Spa and Saratoga County
Ballston Spa is the county seat, a village of a few thousand holding the Saratoga County courthouse, the county complex and the offices a resident on probation or in family court has to reach. Saratoga Springs sits ten minutes north with the hospital, most of the county's outpatient providers and the largest concentration of service jobs. Between them runs the Route 50 and Route 67 corridor and the Northway, which has drawn the semiconductor and manufacturing employment that gives a resident in this part of Saratoga County a realistic path to a paycheck.
RISE Recovery Homes in the Capital Region
RISE Housing and Support Services runs supportive housing across the Capital Region, and this is its substance use apartment program in Ballston Spa. The organization also operates recovery apartments in Saratoga Springs for adults with co-occurring psychiatric and substance use conditions, so a person whose needs sit across both can be matched to the right program inside one organization.
