Recovery Houses of Rochester East Avenue Men's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Recovery Houses of Rochester East Avenue is a men's recovery residence in Rochester, New York, in Monroe County. It is one of two recovery and transitional housing sites the organization operates in the city, and it is run by a certified operator that has been housing men in Rochester since November 2002.

A Men's Recovery Residence on the East Avenue Corridor

East Avenue runs east out of downtown Rochester through the Neighborhood of the Arts and the East Avenue historic district, one of the city's densest and best served corridors. The house serves men. An address on this corridor puts a resident within reach of the downtown employment core, the Regional Transit Service bus network that radiates from Rochester's transit center, and the outpatient providers clustered between downtown and the Park Avenue neighborhood. Very little about daily life here requires a car.

A Recovery Housing Continuum From Rooms to Apartments

The operator does not run a single kind of housing. It offers a continuum, from single room occupancy through to apartments, and it covers crisis stabilization, transitional housing, recovery housing and permanent affordable housing. For a man entering the system that has a concrete meaning. The bed he takes at the point of crisis and the apartment he might hold two years later can both belong to the same organization, and moving between them does not require starting a new relationship with a new landlord who knows nothing about him.

Certification for Recovery Residences in New York

New York does not require recovery residences to be certified, and both available programs are voluntary. The Office of Addiction Services and Supports operates Part 860 certification, and the New York State Alliance of Recovery Residences certifies residences as the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. This house is operated by a certified operator, which means the organization has voluntarily accepted a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move in, and a complaint process that reaches outside the house. A guide to NYSARR certification in New York explains what that commitment involves.

Recovery Housing in Rochester and Monroe County

Rochester is both the seat of Monroe County and the largest city in the Finger Lakes region, with about two hundred thousand residents in the city and a million in the metropolitan area. The Monroe County Hall of Justice, the county offices and the Department of Human Services are downtown. Strong Memorial Hospital and Rochester General anchor two large health systems, and Monroe Community College draws students from across the region. A man in recovery housing here has access to a full county service network in a city small enough to cross in twenty minutes.

Recovery Houses of Rochester Sober Homes in the City

The organization operates two recovery and transitional housing sites in Rochester, this one on the East Avenue corridor and a second on Jones Avenue on the city's west side. Both serve men, and both belong to the same continuum of housing. A resident who needs to move between sites, or between levels of housing, stays inside one organization.