About this Recovery House
Broadway Recovery Services BRS 4 is a men's sober living home in Youngstown, Ohio, in Mahoning County. It is one of six men's recovery homes operated by Broadway Recovery Services, a Youngstown nonprofit founded by Adam Lonardo that has run recovery housing in the Mahoning Valley since 2015.
A Men's Sober Living Home Run by a Youngstown Nonprofit
Broadway Recovery Services is a 501(c)(3) working in the city where it started. Residents move through the same three-stage system at every address: primary recovery homes, then satellite houses, then independent living with support still attached. BRS 4 is one of the men's houses inside that system, and a resident who is ready for less supervision moves to another Broadway address without changing city, caseworker or bus route.
Who These Recovery Homes Take Referrals From
Referrals come from substance use disorder treatment facilities, hospitals, courts and mental health professionals, and staff have worked with residents on probation and parole and residents arriving from homelessness. That mix shapes the house. A good share of men arrive already attached to a case manager or a court obligation, and the ones who apply on their own meet the same requirements: completed medical detox or seven days substance-free, an application, a phone interview, and a substance use and mental health assessment at admission.
What Ohio Recovery Housing Certification Establishes
Broadway Recovery Services runs certified recovery housing through Ohio Recovery Housing, the state's NARR affiliate, and Ohio's certified residences are published in the state's recovery housing search. Certification binds a residence to a written code of ethics, disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint process that runs outside the house. Ohio publishes a level for every certified residence, using the words Peer-Run, Managed and Supervised, so anyone comparing houses can see how much staffing sits behind an address before applying.
Moving Through the Sober Housing Ladder
The average stay across Broadway Recovery Services is about 130 days, and residents are expected to have work within sixty to ninety days. Peer mentorship begins at thirty days, which puts a man who has just found his footing in front of someone who has not yet. Since 2019 more than 400 residents have discharged positively from the program, 55 percent of all discharges.
Mahoning County Recovery Housing and Daily Logistics
Youngstown carries the county's employment, transit and treatment capacity. Western Reserve Transit Authority buses connect the neighborhoods to downtown, the two hospital systems and the employers along the Mahoning River corridor. For someone rebuilding a week around a job, a meeting and an appointment, a Youngstown address keeps all three inside one fare.
Questions to Ask This Sober House
House addresses are not published, and applications go to Broadway Recovery Services. The questions worth asking are the ones certification obliges an answer to: what the weekly fee covers, whether this address is certified and at what level, who is on site overnight, how the move from a primary house to a satellite house is decided, and what happens after a relapse.
