About this Recovery House
Morning Star I is a women's recovery residence on Burrs Lane in Dix Hills, New York, in Suffolk County. SCO Family of Services runs it as a twenty-three bed residential rehabilitation program certified by the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports, for women eighteen and over.
A Women's Recovery Residence on Burrs Lane
Serving women only settles a great deal about how a house works. Sleeping arrangements, bathrooms, group sessions and house expectations are all written for one population, and for women whose substance use is entangled with abuse or exploitation by men, a single-gender residence is frequently the precondition for engaging with treatment at all. Dix Hills is a residential hamlet in the Town of Huntington, in central Suffolk County, and Burrs Lane sits in the quieter interior away from the commercial strips.
Twenty-Three Beds of Residential Recovery Housing for Women
The program describes itself as a safe, structured, sober environment, and twenty-three beds is the size at which that description holds practically. There are enough residents for real group work and a peer community at mixed stages of recovery, and few enough that staff know each woman's situation individually. Residential rehabilitation is a live-in level of care, so treatment happens where residents sleep, on a schedule the program sets, with staff coverage through the nights and weekends.
How Residents Reach This Dix Hills Recovery Home
Most referrals arrive from other providers certified by the Office of Addiction Services and Supports: detox units, inpatient rehabilitation programs and outpatient clinics. Residents must be at least eighteen and meet the program's admission criteria. That referral pattern tells a prospective resident where this house sits in the sequence. Women generally arrive having already done the acute work somewhere else, and the program takes on the longer problem of independence, sober supports and a life that functions after discharge.
Parenting, Children and the Second Recovery Residence on Site
A companion program at the same location serves pregnant and parenting women alongside their preschool-aged children, with childcare provided during treatment hours. That arrangement removes the single most common reason a mother refuses residential treatment, which is that entering it means leaving her children. Parenting support, family counseling and individual counseling run through the programming. A woman assessed at intake can be placed into whichever of the two tracks fits her circumstances.
What OASAS Certification Establishes for Suffolk County Recovery Housing
Recovery residences in New York face no certification requirement at all, and many operate with no public record. This program holds a state treatment certificate for residential services, meaning the Office of Addiction Services and Supports approved it, inspects it and can act on a complaint. On Long Island, where sober homes of widely varying quality advertise heavily, that record is the most checkable fact a family has. The two New York certification tracks are explained in this guide to sober house certification in New York.
Long Island Recovery Housing and the Huntington Area
Dix Hills sits near the geographic center of the island, at the boundary between Nassau's density and Suffolk's spread, with the Long Island Expressway and Northern State Parkway both a few minutes away. Huntington Hospital and the Town of Huntington's services are north, Riverhead and the county seat are east, and the Huntington and Deer Park stations put Manhattan inside a ninety-minute ride. Suffolk County has carried a heavy overdose burden for more than a decade and its certified residential capacity for women is limited, so a women's program in central Suffolk draws from the whole island.
