About this Recovery House
Recovery Homes for Women, Uniondale is a sober living program for women in Uniondale, New York, in Nassau County, operated by Seafield. The hamlet lies in the Town of Hempstead, and this housing is published as a gender grouping with no street address released.
Women's Recovery Housing in the Middle of Nassau County
Seafield keeps men's and women's housing in separate houses, and this is the women's grouping in Uniondale. Addresses are not published and placement is arranged by the operator at intake. Nassau County has very little women's recovery housing relative to its population, and a central hamlet placement means a woman does not have to choose between a bed and staying near her children's school district.
What a Single-Gender Sober House Settles
A women-only house removes a set of questions that otherwise get answered informally and badly: who shares a bathroom, who is in the common room late, whose partner visits. It also changes what gets said in a house meeting. Women in early recovery often carry histories of violence and coercion that they will not raise in a mixed household, and a single-gender house is the setting where those histories stop being invisible.
Conditions of Residency Across the Recovery Homes
Three expectations apply to every house in the network: commitment to recovery, attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous meetings, and contribution to the well-being of the local community. Several of the operator's houses accept residents on medication-assisted treatment, with naltrexone, buprenorphine and suboxone named. A woman on a maintenance prescription should confirm at intake that the house being offered is one that accommodates it.
Getting to Appointments From a Uniondale Recovery Home
Uniondale sits beside Hempstead village, where the county bus network converges and the Long Island Rail Road's Hempstead Branch terminates. Mineola, the county seat, holds the Nassau courts and probation offices a short trip north, and Nassau University Medical Center is in East Meadow. Family court appearances, outpatient sessions and a benefits appointment can all be reached on public transportation from this part of the county.
The Rest of the Long Island Sober Living Network
Ten recovery homes carry 154 sober house beds across Long Island. Women's housing sits in Uniondale and in Riverhead, the Suffolk County seat, with men's houses in Uniondale, Hempstead, Riverhead, Medford and Amityville. The operator also runs a 100-bed inpatient detox and rehabilitation facility in Westhampton Beach, and accepts referrals from treatment centers nationwide. Treatment at state-licensed facilities is covered by insurance, and public assistance may be available toward the cost of the housing. New York leaves recovery residence certification voluntary, as this certification overview explains.
