Jones House Men's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Jones House is a men's recovery residence in Rochester, New York, in Monroe County, operated by Catholic Charities Family and Community Services. It houses 24 men on Jones Avenue as part of the organization's Restart community residence programs.

Twenty-Four Men in a Rebuilt Rochester Recovery Home

The building was renovated from top to bottom across 2020 and 2021 with more than $2.5 million from the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports, and it reopened on July 15, 2021. That level of investment shows up in the things residents actually use: trauma-informed design, accessibility that meets the Americans with Disabilities Act, and space inside the residence for clinical and group treatment so men do not have to travel out for every session. The operator reports the program serves over 200 men each year.

A Community Residence, Not a Rooming House

A community residence sits at a specific point on New York's continuum of care. It supplies housing and structure and it delivers recovery support and treatment on site, which puts it above a peer-run sober house in intensity and below inpatient rehabilitation. Men enter with somewhere to be during the day and a treatment plan already written. The house supplies the address, the schedule and the staff, and the twenty-four beds mean a man is living alongside a group large enough for real peer accountability.

Jones Avenue and Recovery Housing West of Downtown

Jones Avenue sits just west of downtown Rochester in the 14608 ZIP code, an older residential grid inside walking distance of the central business district. Rochester is the Monroe County seat, so the courthouse, probation, county social services and the RTS Transit Center are all close. Men referred from Strong Memorial Hospital, from Monroe County drug court or from inpatient programs elsewhere in the Finger Lakes region find that a west-side address keeps every appointment inside one bus ride.

State Investment and OASAS Oversight of This Sober Living Program

The renovation money came from the state addiction services agency, and that funding relationship is itself informative. New York directs capital into residential recovery programs it certifies and monitors, which means the building was assessed, approved and inspected by people whose job is exactly that. The framework that governs certified residential programs in this state is described in this guide to sober house certification in New York. A rebuilt, state-funded residence is a stronger bet than a house whose condition nobody outside the operator has ever examined.

Other Catholic Charities Recovery Homes in the Rochester Area

Men who need a different setting after Jones House have options inside the same organization. Alexander House on North Clinton Avenue is a second men's residence downtown, Freedom House on Hobart Street and Liberty Manor on St. Paul Street serve residents in other parts of the city, and Hannick Hall is in Newark, Wayne County. A supportive living program places people in community apartments once congregate housing is no longer the right fit.