About this Recovery House
Residential Reintegration for Women is a women's recovery residence in Binghamton, New York, in Broome County, at 5 Merrick Street. Fairview Recovery Services operates it with 18 beds for women as a Part 820 residential reintegration program.
Eighteen Beds in a Women's Recovery Home
The program provides safe, structured housing in a dormitory-style environment for 18 women. Congregate housing at that scale is small enough for staff to know every resident and large enough to sustain a peer group with people at different stages of recovery living side by side. Women's residential capacity in the Southern Tier is limited, and 18 certified beds in the region's largest city is a meaningful share of what exists.
Who Qualifies for This Sober Living Program
Residents are women aged 18 and older, including cisgender, transgender and non-binary individuals who identify with the women's community. Applicants must be stable in their substance use, mental health and medical conditions and capable of adequate cognitive functioning, emotional regulation, social connection and fulfilling role responsibilities. Reintegration programs sit late in the treatment sequence, and the criteria reflect that: this is the step before independent living, and it assumes stabilization has already happened.
Gender-Specific Support Inside the Recovery Residence
The program delivers gender-specific support in a trauma-informed and identity-affirming environment. Services include case management and discharge planning, individual counseling and support groups, access to Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and other peer recovery meetings, life skills workshops and recreational activities, and referrals to vocational, educational and community-based services. Length of stay is determined by individual needs and progress toward recovery goals.
How Referrals Reach This Recovery Housing Program
Referrals are submitted to the admissions coordinator at Fairview Recovery Services through encrypted channels, and they arrive from clinical providers and from the court and supervision systems. Women weighing a referral should ask what the daily schedule requires, how the program coordinates with family court where custody is in play, whether medication for opioid use disorder is supported, and what housing the discharge plan points at.
Women's Recovery Homes in the Southern Tier
Binghamton is the seat of Broome County, built where the Chenango River joins the Susquehanna, and Merrick Street sits on the city's east side within a short bus ride of the downtown courts, county offices and hospital services. Women arriving from Endicott, Johnson City, Owego and the rural towns near the Pennsylvania line come to Binghamton for treatment because the alternative is a long drive for every appointment. Fairview also runs a men's reintegration program at this address, a 45-bed scattered-site apartment program, and residences on Clapham Street and Court Street. Certification of recovery residences in New York is voluntary, and the picture is set out in this certification guide.
