About this Recovery House
Cathy's House is a men's sober living home on West Liberty Street in Medina, Ohio, in Medina County. Ohio Recovery Housing certifies the residence at the Managed level, and it accepts residents on medication-assisted treatment. Hope Recovery Community, a recovery community organization formerly known by the house's own name, operates it today.
A Men's Sober House on West Liberty Street
Cathy's House holds close to seventeen beds, making it one of the larger men's sober living homes in Medina County. It is a MAT-supported residence, meaning men on buprenorphine or methadone are accepted rather than screened out, a policy that matters for anyone whose treatment plan already includes a prescribed medication and who cannot afford to lose housing over it.
What Managed-Level ORH Certification Establishes
Ohio Recovery Housing certifies residences at three tiers: Peer-Run, Managed, and Supervised. Managed level sits in the middle, describing a house with defined staffing and oversight beyond a self-run model. Ohio Recovery Housing certification also commits the house to a published code of ethics, disclosed fees and rules, and an outside complaint process, giving a referring agency or family a record to check before move-in.
A Recovery Community Organization Behind the House
Hope Recovery Community describes itself as led and governed by the recovery community rather than by outside administrators, and Cathy's House operates as one of its housing programs alongside peer support, family services, and workforce initiatives. That structure means the people setting policy for the house have generally lived through recovery themselves.
Recovery Housing in Medina County
Medina is the county seat, and Cathy's House sits inside the city's own residential grid rather than out toward the highway interchanges that ring the county. Outpatient providers, the county courts, and Medina County's job base are all reachable without leaving the city, which matters for a MAT-supported house where residents are typically also keeping regular appointments with a prescriber.
Applying to Cathy's House
Applications go through Hope Recovery Community. Because the house is MAT-supported, prospective residents already on a prescribed medication for opioid use disorder should raise it during intake rather than after move-in, along with the standard questions about the weekly fee and house rules that Managed-level certification requires the operator to disclose in writing.
Our facility houses 16 residents, 10 male and 6 female beds with on-site supervision.
