About this Recovery House
Casa Di Vita is a women's sober living home on Albany Street in Buffalo, New York, the seat of Erie County. Caz Recovery runs it as a reintegration program certified by the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports, and states that it can serve 19 women in recovery.
Nineteen Women in a West Side Sober House
Nineteen beds makes a household, and every resident is a woman. That single fact settles the shape of daily life: the bedrooms, the common rooms and the groups are all one gender, and the house culture is set by women who are working on the same thing. The operator describes semi-private rooms, meals provided on site and recreation areas in the house. Albany Street runs through Buffalo's West Side off the Niagara Street corridor, a dense, walkable part of the city with bus service and the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus a short ride east.
What Reintegration Means in This Recovery Housing Program
Caz Recovery separates rehabilitation from reintegration, and Casa Di Vita is the second kind. The assumption is that a resident is past the acute stage and the work now is rebuilding an ordinary life: employment, education, medical care and the routine that holds all three together. The operator connects residents to outpatient treatment, medical care, mental health services and educational and vocational resources, and runs individual and group counseling in the house. Length of stay is set case by case, and the operator describes it as ranging from a couple of weeks to a couple of months or more.
Trauma-Informed Care in a Women's Recovery Home
Caz Recovery names trauma-informed care as a practice across its programs, with staff trained to deliver care that is sensitive to past traumas. In a women's residence that commitment carries particular weight, because a large share of women entering treatment arrive with histories that a poorly run house will re-enact. A prospective resident can reasonably ask what the training consists of and how it changes the way the house handles a relapse or a conflict.
What the Operator Reports About This Sober Living Program
Caz Recovery publishes outcome figures for the house. In 2022, it reports that 71% of residents remained free of drugs and alcohol during their stay and 96% were satisfied with the care they received. Figures like these describe one year and one program, and they are more useful as a sign that an operator measures itself and publishes the result than as a prediction about any individual. Very few recovery housing providers publish anything at all.
Erie County Recovery Housing and the Buffalo Network
Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the second largest city in New York, which concentrates the courts, the social services offices, Erie County Medical Center, the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, Erie Community College and the NFTA Metro system inside one municipal footprint. Caz Recovery runs several more residences across the city and the surrounding counties. A woman leaving Casa Di Vita who needs a supported apartment next can find one inside the same organization and the same county. A guide to sober house certification in New York explains how the state's credentials fit together.
