About this Recovery House
Release Recovery Westchester Women's Transitional Living is a women's sober living home in Purchase, New York, in Westchester County. It is run by Release Recovery, founded in 2017, which houses residents in Westchester, Manhattan and Austin. The women's house operates as its own household, separate from the men's residence the operator keeps in the same county.
A Women's Recovery Residence in Westchester County
Single gender housing does specific work in early recovery. It takes a whole category of distraction out of the house, and it lets one set of rules cover a group with broadly similar needs. Women apply to this residence, and the men's house is a separate application with a separate waitlist. Purchase sits in the Town of Harrison between White Plains and the Connecticut line, green and residential, with two college campuses inside the hamlet. The street address is not published, and placement is handled by the operator.
Structured Sober Living Paired With Outpatient Care
The residence supplies the address, the housemates and the daily structure. Treatment comes from Release Recovery's own outpatient programs, which deliver 12 to 25 hours a week of clinical support depending on the level a woman is at, and which hold Joint Commission accreditation and a state treatment license. Keeping both functions inside one organization means a woman stepping down from partial hospitalization to intensive outpatient is not simultaneously looking for somewhere to live.
New York Sober Living Certification Is Voluntary
New York does not require a recovery residence to be certified or licensed. Two voluntary programs exist: Part 860 certification through the Office of Addiction Services and Supports, and certification by the New York State Alliance of Recovery Residences, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. An explainer on NYSARR certification in New York sets out what a certified residence signs up to. Because participation is optional, the absence of any particular house from either roster carries no meaning, so a woman comparing options in Westchester should ask directly for fees, house rules and the discharge policy in writing.
Women's Recovery Housing in the Lower Hudson Valley
Westchester County has close to a million residents and a thin supply of women's recovery housing, which is why women so often end up searching outside the county they came from. White Plains, the county seat, holds the courts, the county health offices and most of the outpatient capacity in the area, and Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla serves the region. Manhattan is about forty minutes by train. A woman rebuilding a work routine gets to do it without the isolation of a rural placement or the density of the city.
The Release Recovery Network of Sober Homes
Release Recovery keeps over 80 beds between New York and Texas. In New York that means four transitional living residences: this house and a men's house in Westchester, and women's and men's houses in New York City. Austin, Texas holds the fifth. A woman who decides after a few months that she wants the city instead of the suburbs raises it with the same intake team that placed her.
