About this Recovery House
The Lorraine Montenegro Women and Children's Facility is a women's recovery residence in the Bronx, New York, in Bronx County. It holds 38 certified beds on Prospect Avenue in the South Bronx and is licensed by the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports as a Part 820 residential service. It is operated within the Acacia Network, which has run health, housing and addiction programs in the borough since 1969.
A Women's Recovery Residence on Prospect Avenue
Admission is limited to adult women. Acacia Network accepts pregnant women, mothers with children living with them, mothers working to regain supervision of their children, and women who are not currently parenting. Women who are homeless or at risk of homelessness are accepted as well. That admissions policy is the defining fact about this residence, because it means a woman does not have to resolve her housing or her custody situation before she can get treatment.
Thirty-Eight Certified Beds in a Bronx Sober House
Thirty-eight beds is a mid-sized program, large enough for a staffed schedule and group programming and small enough that residents and staff know one another by name. Acacia Network states that its women's residential programs typically run six to twelve months. A stay measured in months, and not weeks, is what allows the harder work to happen. Custody proceedings, benefits reinstatement, schooling and a return to employment all move on timelines that a twenty-eight day admission cannot accommodate.
Recovery Housing Built Around Mothers and Children
Programs that separate a mother from a young child in order to treat her lose a predictable share of those mothers before the treatment can work. A residence that houses both changes the calculation. For a woman in a Bronx family court proceeding, being in a licensed residential program with her child present is also a fact the court can weigh, and the case management staff on site are used to producing the documentation that requires.
Bronx County Recovery Homes and the Prospect Avenue Corridor
Prospect Avenue runs north through the South Bronx, served by the 2 and 5 lines and by cross-borough bus routes. Bronx County has carried among the heaviest overdose burdens in New York State, and it also holds a dense network of federally qualified health centers, opioid treatment programs and family services. Bronx County recovery housing sits inside that network by design, and residents here can reach a clinic, a court and a benefits office without leaving the borough.
The Acacia Network Behind This Bronx Recovery Home
Acacia Network reaches more than 150,000 people a year through health, housing, social services and cultural programs, with a network of over 100 affiliates and related entities and more than 2,700 employees. Its addiction services alone include residential programs for adults and youth, opioid treatment programs, outpatient chemical dependency clinics and detox. A resident leaving this house into outpatient care is often staying inside the same organization, which shortens the handoff.
