About this Recovery House
Recovery Houses of Rochester Jones Avenue is a men's sober house in Rochester, New York, in Monroe County. Jones Avenue lies on the city's west side, west of the Genesee River, and the house is one of two recovery and transitional housing sites the organization runs inside the city.
A Men's Sober House on Rochester's West Side
The house serves men. Rochester's west side, between downtown and the city line, is an older street grid of frame houses and small blocks with a long working class history and a much lower cost of living than the corridors east of the river. Residents are close to downtown without paying downtown rents. For a man rebuilding after treatment or incarceration, that means a neighborhood where an entry level wage covers a life, which is not true everywhere in the metro area.
Transitional and Permanent Recovery Housing
The operator runs a range of housing, from single room occupancy through apartments, spanning crisis stabilization, transitional, recovery and permanent affordable units. A resident is entering a system with somewhere to go next. Recovery housing works best when the exit is planned from the first week, and an organization that also holds permanent affordable stock can plan that exit internally instead of handing a man a list of phone numbers on his last day.
What NYSARR Certification Commits a Recovery Home To
This house is operated by a certified operator, and certification in New York is voluntary. The New York State Alliance of Recovery Residences is the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences, and OASAS separately runs a Part 860 certification program. An operator that seeks certification agrees in writing to a code of ethics, agrees to disclose fees and house rules before a resident moves in, keeps a written relapse and discharge policy, and accepts a complaint process that a resident can use without going through the house. A guide to NYSARR certification covers what the affiliate requires. Absence from the roster is not a negative finding in New York, because most houses in the state have never applied.
Getting to Work From This Rochester Sober House
Regional Transit Service runs the city's bus network from the downtown transit center, and the west side routes feed into it directly. Downtown employment, the Monroe County Hall of Justice, the county Department of Human Services and the courts are all a single ride away. Rochester General and Strong Memorial serve opposite ends of the city. A resident without a car can hold a job, attend outpatient treatment and meet a probation officer in the same week without a transfer that eats an afternoon.
Monroe County Recovery Housing and the Finger Lakes
Rochester is the county seat and the regional center for the Finger Lakes, drawing people from Livingston, Wayne, Ontario and Orleans counties for services their own towns cannot supply. Recovery housing capacity is concentrated in the city, so a man leaving treatment in a smaller county town frequently finds that Rochester holds the nearest bed. This west side address puts him inside that network with a place to stay long enough for the rest of it to matter.
