About this Recovery House
Genesis Transitional Housing Ministries - 192nd Street is a recovery residence in Springfield Gardens, New York, in Queens County. The house stands on 192nd Street in southeastern Queens and is run by a faith-based nonprofit that provides safe housing, life-skills development and support for adults rebuilding their lives after addiction.
A Coed Recovery Residence in Southeast Queens
The house serves men and women. Springfield Gardens and the adjoining St. Albans and Hollis sections form a stretch of one and two-family homes in the southeastern corner of the borough, and this residence is one of them. That setting is the point. A resident lives on an ordinary residential street, walks to a bus, and goes to work from an address that looks like everyone else's, which is a different experience from a program housed in an institutional building.
Faith-Based Recovery Housing in Queens
Genesis is a ministry, led by Rev. Andre Broady as executive director and Rev. Helen D. Broady as assistant executive director. The faith basis is not incidental to how the housing works. It supplies the volunteer base, the congregational network that supplies referrals and furniture, and the framework the organization uses to talk about change. A resident who wants recovery grounded in faith will find it here explicitly. A resident who wants a secular house should ask directly how much of the programming is religious before applying.
Life Skills and Support in This Springfield Gardens Sober House
Alongside housing, Genesis provides life-skills development, life coaching and what it describes as holistic healing and transformation. Over the past year the organization reports housing support for more than 100 individuals and more than 7,240 direct service hours, and its food pantry outreach reached roughly 30,000 families. Those numbers describe an organization doing wraparound work alongside the housing, and for a resident with no identification, no bank account and no work history, the wraparound part is often what determines whether the housing holds.
Recovery Housing in Queens County and Jamaica
Queens County has more than two million residents and a recovery housing supply badly out of proportion to that. Most of what exists sits in the southeastern quadrant, around Jamaica, the county seat, which holds the courthouse, the hospitals, the outpatient clinics and the transit hub where the E, F, J and Z subways meet the Long Island Rail Road and the borough's bus network. From this house a resident reaches all of it. Anyone searching for recovery housing in southeast Queens is working inside a small set of addresses, and this is one of them.
Community Roots Behind a Queens Recovery Home
Genesis works across Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Long Island, and it operates the food pantry, the outreach and the housing out of the same community it draws from. That continuity matters to a resident coming home from prison or from a long treatment episode. The people running the house know the neighborhood, the churches, the employers and the families, and a resident is entering a network instead of only a building.
Voluntary Certification and New York Recovery Residences
New York does not require recovery residences to be certified. Two voluntary programs run in parallel, one through the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences and one under the Office of Addiction Services and Supports, and a guide to New York sober house certification explains what each asks. Since neither list is comprehensive, a prospective resident should ask this house for its fee schedule, its house rules and its policy on relapse and discharge in writing.
