Madonna House Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Madonna House is a women's recovery residence on Niagara Street Extension in Lockport, New York, the seat of Niagara County. Caz Recovery states that it can serve 16 women in recovery and multiple children, and the state register lists the program at 21 beds under Part 820.

A Sober House That Takes Mothers and Their Children

This is the fact that matters most on this listing. Caz Recovery states that children residing on site with their mothers must be preschool age or younger, and that women 18 and over are eligible. Most residential programs cannot take a child at all, which is why so many mothers postpone treatment until a custody case forces the issue and the treatment and the child are lost together. A house built to hold both removes that choice. Anyone considering it should ask early about the child care arrangements and what the daily schedule looks like for a parent.

Rehabilitation Treatment in This Recovery Housing Program

Caz Recovery describes Madonna House as rehabilitation treatment for women and their children, certified by the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports. The services listed are substance use counseling, mental health counseling, vocational counseling, family counseling and basic primary medical care, with treatment delivered through group sessions, individual sessions and meetings with on-site medical staff. Family counseling in a house that holds families is the piece that makes the model coherent.

What the Operator Publishes About This Recovery Home

Caz Recovery publishes outcome figures for the house. In 2022 it reports that 96% of residents remained free of drugs and alcohol during their stay and 95% were satisfied with the care they received. Length of stay is individualized, and the operator describes it as running from a couple of weeks to a couple of months or more. Trauma-informed care is named as a standing practice, with staff providing care that is sensitive to past traumas, which in a program serving mothers is doing a great deal of work.

Lockport and Niagara County Recovery Housing

Lockport is the county seat of Niagara County, built around the Erie Canal locks that gave it its name, and it holds the county courthouse, the county offices and the Department of Social Services. For a mother in treatment that concentration is decisive, because a custody matter, a benefits appointment and a family court date all sit in the same small city. Niagara Street Extension runs north out of the built-up part of town, so the house is quiet and the county's services are minutes away.

Women's Sober Living Across the Caz Recovery Network

Caz Recovery operates three women's residences in Western New York: this one in Lockport, Casa Di Vita on Buffalo's West Side and Somerset House out on the Lake Ontario shore in Appleton. A woman whose children are older than preschool age, or who is not parenting on site, has options inside the same organization. A guide to sober house certification in New York explains what state certification does and does not cover.