About this Recovery House
Integrity Homes on Van Buren Street is a men's sober house in Uniondale, New York, in Nassau County. It is one of the Long Island sober living homes operated by Integrity Homes, which publishes this Van Buren Street address among its residences and houses men in semi private rooms.
A Men's Sober House in Uniondale
Uniondale is a hamlet in the Town of Hempstead, in the geographic middle of Nassau County, and it is one of the few genuinely central addresses on Long Island. Van Buren Street sits in a residential grid off the main avenues. Hofstra University is immediately west, the Nassau Coliseum and the Nassau Hub redevelopment area sit just north, and the Hempstead Transit Center, the busiest bus hub in the county, is a short ride away. A man without a car has real options from here in a way he would not from most Nassau villages.
Semi Private Rooms in This Recovery Residence
Integrity Homes places residents in semi private rooms with same sex suite arrangements. Two men to a room, sharing a bathroom inside the suite, is the configuration most Long Island sober living uses, and it exists for a straightforward reason: it holds the weekly cost within reach of someone working an entry level job while still giving a resident a door to close. It also builds accountability into the sleeping arrangement, because a roommate notices a change in routine long before anyone else in the house does.
New York Sober Home Certification Is Voluntary
New York neither licenses recovery residences nor requires them to be certified. The Office of Addiction Services and Supports runs a voluntary Part 860 certification program, and the New York State Alliance of Recovery Residences certifies houses as the state's NARR affiliate. A walkthrough of the OASAS certification application covers what a house has to document. On Long Island the absence of a mandatory program means an applicant's leverage is documentation, so ask for the fee schedule, the house rules and the discharge policy in writing before signing anything.
Recovery Housing in Central Nassau County
Mineola, the county seat, is four miles north and holds the Nassau County courts, the county executive's offices and the Department of Human Services. Nassau University Medical Center, the county's public hospital, is in East Meadow just east of Uniondale. The Meadowbrook and Southern State parkways cross nearby, and the Hempstead Branch of the Long Island Rail Road runs to Jamaica and Penn Station. Anyone managing probation, a clinic schedule and a job at the same time is closer to all three from central Nassau than from either shoreline.
Integrity Homes Sober Living Across Long Island
Integrity Homes operates men's sober living at several Nassau County addresses. Alongside this Uniondale house it runs a residence on Elliott Place in Freeport and a second house in the same village. The houses share one operator, one intake process and one set of expectations, so a man who needs a different household is not starting over with a stranger.
