About this Recovery House
Kuffner Residential is a men's recovery residence in Staten Island, New York, on Heberton Avenue in Richmond County. Camelot Counseling runs it as a residential program for adult men with substance use disorders, staffed around the clock.
A Men's Recovery Residence on Heberton Avenue
Heberton Avenue runs through Port Richmond, a North Shore neighborhood of nineteenth century frame houses, small commercial blocks and long standing immigrant communities. The house sits on a residential street a few blocks from Port Richmond Avenue, the neighborhood's main commercial spine. Buses run east to St. George and the Manhattan ferry, and the Bayonne Bridge connects to New Jersey a short distance north.
The Camelot Counseling Model in a North Shore Sober House
The program at Kuffner Residential follows the same model the organization runs at its Brielle Avenue address. Men live in the house full time, counseling happens individually, in groups and with families, and vocational and recreational programming carries the rest of the week. The expected stay runs roughly six to nine months, and an outpatient aftercare program follows. Consistency across two addresses matters more than it sounds: a resident who transfers is not learning a new set of rules.
A Single Gender Recovery Home and What That Settles
This is a men's house, and the restriction resolves practical questions before anyone asks them. Bathrooms, bedrooms and common space serve one population. House groups can go where mixed groups often will not. For men whose using history is tangled up with relationships, a single gender residence removes a distraction during the months when the work is hardest.
Port Richmond as an Address for Recovery Housing
The North Shore holds most of Staten Island's health and social services, including outpatient addiction clinics, community health centers and job placement programs, and St. George holds the county courthouse and the ferry terminal. A resident of this house can reach a treatment appointment, a probation officer and an employer on the same bus line. That reachability is the argument for a neighborhood address over a placement out of the borough.
Moving Between Camelot Counseling Sober Homes
Camelot Counseling operates a second, larger residential program on Brielle Avenue in the center of Staten Island. Two addresses inside one organization give a resident somewhere to go when the setting is the problem instead of the program. A man who needs the quiet of Sea View, or who needs the connectedness of the North Shore, can raise it with staff who already know his history.
Questions for This Staten Island Recovery Residence
Ask what a weekday looks like from wake up to lights out. Ask how many men live in the house and how many staff are on at night. Ask whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted. Ask what discharge planning covers, and what housing a resident is expected to move into when the six to nine months are up.
