Amethyst House Inc

About Amethyst House Inc

Amethyst House Inc is a sober living operator in Staten Island, New York, in Richmond County, running two recovery residences on the borough's North Shore. One house serves women and the other serves men, and both sit within a few miles of the St. George ferry terminal.

A Staten Island Recovery Housing Provider

Staten Island has the smallest population of any New York City borough and one of the highest overdose rates in the city, a combination that has made local recovery housing a persistent shortage. Amethyst House Inc works entirely inside that market. Both of its houses are on the North Shore, the densest and best served part of the borough, and the organization runs them as residential settings where structure and peer accountability come from the household.

Two Recovery Homes on the North Shore

The operator runs two residences:

• A women's recovery home on Richmond Terrace, near St. George.
• A men's recovery home on Heberton Avenue, in Port Richmond.

The two addresses are roughly two miles apart along the same waterfront corridor. They share bus routes, hospitals, outpatient providers and the same ferry terminal, so the two houses effectively operate inside one service network.

Men's and Women's Sober Houses Under One Operator

Each house is single gender, and the operator maintains the split at the building level. Women apply to Richmond Terrace and men to Heberton Avenue. For a referral source that matters more than it sounds, because a hospital discharge planner or a court liaison with a client of either gender has one organization to call and one relationship to maintain. For a resident, it means the household is built for one population from the sleeping arrangements outward.

Certification and This Recovery Housing Provider

New York does not require a recovery residence or its operator to be licensed or certified. Two voluntary programs exist: Part 860 certification through the Office of Addiction Services and Supports, and certification through the New York State Alliance of Recovery Residences, the state's NARR affiliate. An explainer on New York sober house certification covers how each works and what a certified house commits to. Because participation is optional across the state, certification status tells a family less in New York than it would in a state with a mandatory program, and the operator's own written policies carry the weight instead.

Recovery Housing for Richmond County

St. George is the seat of Richmond County. Borough Hall, the county clerk, the Richmond County Supreme and Criminal Courts and the district attorney all sit within a few blocks of the ferry terminal, and Richmond University Medical Center is nearby in West Brighton. The free ferry to Lower Manhattan runs around the clock, and nearly every borough bus route starts at the terminal. An operator with both of its houses on this corridor has put its residents where the courts, the clinics and the jobs actually are.