Addictions Care Center of Albany

About Addictions Care Center of Albany

The Addictions Care Center of Albany is a New York sober living operator and addiction treatment provider based in East Greenbush, running certified recovery housing across Albany, Rensselaer and Warren counties. It has operated as a private, non-profit provider since 1967, and it works in Albany, Rensselaer and Warren counties with an emphasis on accessibility, accountability and responsiveness to local needs.

A Capital Region Recovery Housing Provider Since 1967

Six decades in one region is unusual in this field, and it changes what an organization can do. The relationships with courts, hospitals, county agencies and employers are old ones. The staff have seen the same neighborhoods through several waves of the same crisis. For a resident, the visible effect is that a referral out of the program tends to land somewhere real, because the person making it has been sending people there for years.

Sober Homes in Albany, Troy and Queensbury

The residential portfolio spans three counties:

• 90 McCarty Avenue, Albany: men's and women's stabilization and rehabilitation, a residence for women and children, a reintegration program, and Reilly House transitional housing for men.
• 111 McCarty Avenue, Albany: the women's reintegration residence.
• 240-244 Morton Avenue, Albany: the men's reintegration residence.
• 504 Second Avenue, Troy: men's rehabilitation and reintegration in Rensselaer County.
• 79 Glenwood Avenue, Queensbury: women's stabilization and rehabilitation in Warren County.
• 68 Quaker Road, Queensbury: men's stabilization and rehabilitation.

Three towns, three counties, and a set of houses close enough together that changing levels rarely means changing the outpatient provider or the bus route.

Four Levels of Recovery Housing Under One Provider

The residences are organized as a continuum instead of a set of interchangeable beds. Stabilization handles motivation, medication management, cravings and family relationships at the point of entry. Rehabilitation moves into substance use education and recovery skills. Reintegration puts residents into outpatient care while they work or study. Reilly House provides supervised transitional housing for men in the later stages of recovery. Someone entering at the first level can walk the whole ladder without leaving the organization, and that continuity is the strongest argument this operator makes.

Men's and Women's Sober Houses, and Housing for Mothers

Programs are run for men, for women, and for women with children. The gender split is maintained at the house level, so groups, sleeping arrangements and common space are organized around one population at every level from stabilization through transitional housing. The women and children's program in Albany removes the choice between entering treatment and keeping a young child in the household, which is the single most common reason mothers do not enter residential care at all.

State Certification Across This Sober Living Operator

All programs operate under the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports, which regulates and licenses addiction services in New York. Residences are staffed twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, with counseling, education, employment training, life-skills training and case management on site. New York does not require recovery residences to hold a credential, so an operator carrying state certification across every site it runs has accepted inspection and oversight it could have avoided.

Outpatient Care, Prevention and Workforce Training

The organization is more than its houses. It runs an outpatient clinic and community education program on Broadway in Albany, prevention services including family support, and a 350-hour CASAC training program for people entering the addiction counseling workforce. A provider that trains counselors and treats patients in the same region ends up with an unusual amount of leverage over the quality of the local workforce, and it means a resident stepping down from residential care into outpatient treatment can stay inside one organization.

Who These Capital Region Recovery Homes Are For

The houses suit people who need treatment and housing at the same time, from detox, from a hospital, from a court or from the street, and who intend to work through a real continuum instead of a single admission. Anyone who needs only a room in a peer-run house is looking at a different product. Admissions and level-of-care assessment run through the organization directly, and the main office sits on Troy Road in East Greenbush, between the three counties it serves.