Catholic Charities of Oneida/Madison County

About Catholic Charities of Oneida/Madison County

Catholic Charities of Oneida/Madison County is a sober living operator in Utica, New York, running certified recovery homes in Oneida County alongside a broad set of human services.

A Central New York Recovery Housing Provider Since 1925

The agency dates to 1925 and works across Oneida and Madison counties from offices in Utica, Rome and Oneida. A century of continuous operation in the same region is an unusual credential in recovery housing, a field where operators appear and disappear with funding cycles. It also means the residential programs sit inside an organization that runs food pantries, emergency assistance, mental health care and community programs, so a resident's benefits problem or housing application does not require finding a whole new agency.

Two Single-Gender Sober Houses in Utica

Two state-certified residences carry the agency's name, both in Utica:

• Catholic Charities OASAS Men's 820 Residence, on Whitesboro Street in Utica, with 16 beds.
• Catholic Charities OASAS Women's 820 Residence, on Genesee Street in Utica, with 16 beds.

Thirty-two certified beds, split evenly between men and women. That balance is unusual. Women's residential beds are the scarcer half of the supply almost everywhere in upstate New York, and an operator that matches them one for one has made a deliberate choice.

Men's and Women's Recovery Homes Run in Parallel

The two houses are separate buildings on opposite sides of Utica, each written for one population. House expectations, group work and shared space serve one gender in each. Running them in parallel under a single operator means the intake, the clinical partnerships and the referral relationships are shared, and a couple, siblings or friends arriving together can both be placed in the same city without being placed in the same house.

Certification Across This Sober Living Operator

Both residences hold New York State Part 820 certification from the Office of Addiction Services and Supports, granted service by service. New York imposes no certification requirement on recovery residences, so an operator with certificates on every bed it runs has taken on standards, records and inspection that the law would have let it skip. That is the strongest public credential a sober living operator in this state can carry.

Serving Oneida and Madison County Sober Homes

Utica is the seat of Oneida County and the largest city in the Mohawk Valley, on the Thruway between Syracuse and Albany. Rome is twenty minutes west, Oneida sits over the Madison County line, and the country between them is rural. The agency's residential beds are in Utica because that is where the courts, the hospitals, the treatment providers and the jobs are. Ask which providers and courts refer to the agency, what funding it accepts, how fees are documented, and how a complaint escalates from the house to the agency and then to the state.