About this Recovery House
Lorraine Montenegro Women & Children's Residence is a women's recovery home in the Bronx, New York, in Bronx County, on Prospect Avenue. Acacia Network lists it as one of its residential substance use treatment programs for women with or without children, fully licensed by the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports.
Recovery Housing That Keeps Mothers and Children Together
The admissions policy is the point of this residence. Acacia Network accepts pregnant women, mothers with their children in residence, 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. A mother who would otherwise have to choose between treatment and her child does not have to make that choice here, and the number of women who never enter treatment because of that choice is not small.
Six to Twelve Months in a Bronx Women's Sober House
Acacia Network states that its women's residential programs typically run six to twelve months. A stay of that length is what makes the surrounding work possible. Family court schedules, benefits restoration, education and a return to employment do not resolve in a month. Anyone weighing this residence should think in terms of a year and plan for what happens at the end of it, because the discharge plan is where the value of a long stay is either kept or lost.
What Women's Recovery Homes Provide Here
Across Acacia Network's women's residences, the published services include individual and group counseling, mental health care, referrals to primary care and to medication-assisted treatment, educational and vocational services, benefits enrollment and aftercare referrals. Programs serving mothers add parenting support and childcare. The combination is what distinguishes a women and children's residence from general residential treatment with a visitation policy.
Prospect Avenue Sober Living and Bronx County Geography
Prospect Avenue runs through the South Bronx and is served by the 2 and 5 lines, with the Hub at Third Avenue and 149th Street a short ride away. Bronx County's family court, its benefits offices, its pediatric clinics and its behavioral health providers are concentrated in this southern section of the borough. A mother in this residence can reach a court date, a pediatric appointment and a caseworker meeting without a car and without leaving the county.
Acacia Network Women's Recovery Homes Across the City
Acacia Network runs women's residential programs in the Bronx, in Brooklyn and in East Harlem, alongside men's residences, an adolescent program, outpatient clinics and opioid treatment programs. A woman whose circumstances change during a stay is discussing it with an organization that has other beds and other levels of care. Referrals come from courts, from the Administration for Children's Services, from hospitals and from women calling directly.
