Chemical Dependency Apartment Program (CDAP) Coed Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Chemical Dependency Apartment Program (CDAP) is a coed recovery residence in Rochester, New York, the seat of Monroe County. East House runs it as a scattered-site apartment program supporting seventy-two people living in forty apartments with a primary diagnosis of substance use disorder.

Seventy-Two People in Forty Recovery Housing Apartments

Seventy-two residents across forty apartments makes this one of the largest recovery housing programs in the Rochester area, and it operates without a single central building. East House leases the apartments and places residents in them, spread through the city. The scale is what allows the program to match a resident to a unit that fits: a single adult who needs a roommate, someone who needs to live alone, a parent who needs room for a child. A congregate house of the same capacity would have one answer for all three.

Apartments for Parents and Children in Recovery Housing

Eight of the forty apartments hold parents together with their children. That is the most consequential fact on this listing. Recovery housing that separates a parent from their children forces a choice most parents will not make, and the ones who do make it often leave treatment early to undo it. Keeping a family in one unit while the parent is in recovery removes that choice, keeps a custody arrangement intact and gives a child a stable address during the period when everything else is moving.

How Scattered-Site Sober Living Works Day to Day

Living in a leased apartment is different from living in a residence. A resident cooks, budgets, keeps the unit, and deals with neighbors who have no idea they are in a program. Staff come to them for support and case management. The independence is real and so is the exposure, and the model works best for people who have already done a stretch in a supervised setting and need to practice ordinary life while help is still attached. East House also runs financial case management covering benefits, budgeting, credit repair and debt, which is aimed squarely at the wreckage that accumulates during an acute illness.

Where This Rochester Recovery Residence Sits

The individual apartment addresses are not published, and placement runs through the operator. Scattered-site programs work precisely because residents live in ordinary buildings among ordinary tenants, and publishing the doors would end that. What is established is the city and the county: Rochester, in Monroe County, in the Finger Lakes region. Anyone considering the program should ask the operator directly where a specific unit is before accepting it, and check the bus route from that address to work and to treatment.

What to Ask Before Entering This Rochester Recovery Home

The useful questions here are about the lease and the support, since the building is not the product. What does a resident pay and what does it cover. How often does staff visit, and what happens between visits. Are roommates assigned or chosen. What are the rules about visitors and about children in units not designated for families. What happens after a return to use, and does a resident lose the apartment. Is medication for opioid use disorder accepted. A certified program has to answer all of that in writing before anyone signs.