Catholic Charities Steuben/Livingston

About Catholic Charities Steuben/Livingston

Catholic Charities Steuben/Livingston is a sober living operator in Bath, New York, running state-licensed recovery housing in Steuben and Livingston Counties. It is part of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Rochester, and its addiction services division holds residential licenses from the state.

A Southern Tier Recovery Housing Provider

This is a social service agency that runs beds as one part of a wider portfolio, which has consequences a resident feels. The organization is old, it is answerable to a diocese and to a state licensing body, and its addiction programs sit alongside services for housing, food and family support that residents frequently need at the same time. Nobody is running this as a rental business. The trade is that admission runs through a referral process instead of a phone call, and beds go to people a licensed treatment program has already assessed.

Congregate and Scattered-Bed Recovery Homes Under One Operator

The agency operates two distinct residential models under state license:

• Weider House Community Residence, in Bath, an eighteen-bed congregate house for men, formerly Kinship Community Residence. Round-the-clock care, typical stays of three to six months. The residence address is not published and placement runs through the operator.
• A supportive living program of eighteen scattered beds, in Bath and Hornell, for residents who do not need clinical supervision on site. Average stays run six to eighteen months. Bed addresses are not published.
• A certified residential program on Rumsey Street in Bath, carrying eighteen beds.

Two levels inside one agency is the practical argument for choosing it. A man who steadies in the congregate house and needs another year with less supervision moves to the scattered program without starting over with strangers.

Where This Sober Living Operator Works: Bath and Hornell

The footprint is Steuben County and Livingston County, with beds in Bath and Hornell. Bath is the county seat and holds the courthouse, county social services and the Bath VA Medical Center. Hornell sits about thirty minutes west and is the county's second population center. Between them they hold most of what a resident in this part of the Southern Tier needs to reach on foot or by a short ride, which is why a rural agency concentrates its housing there.

How Referrals Reach This Recovery Housing Provider

Referrals come from other OASAS-licensed substance abuse treatment programs, and the agency admits from Steuben and Livingston Counties and the surrounding area. Admission criteria are published: a documented substance use disorder, homelessness or an unsuitable living environment, a continuing need for treatment, and, for the congregate house, a need for structured round-the-clock care. Supportive living applicants have to be able to hold abstinence with peer support and limited supervision.

What OASAS Licensing Means for a New York Sober Living Operator

New York leaves recovery residences to certify voluntarily and requires nothing of a plain sober house. Residential addiction programs are licensed and inspected by the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports, and this agency's residential programs hold those licenses under the residential reintegration category. Understanding how OASAS certification differs from NYSARR recovery residence certification is the single most useful thing a New York family can do before comparing providers, because the two credentials mean different things and carry different recourse.

Reaching This Steuben County Sober Living Operator

Questions at the operator level differ from questions about a bed. How long has the agency run residential addiction services in the Southern Tier, which treatment programs does it accept referrals from, how quickly does a bed usually come open, how does a resident move from the congregate house to scattered supportive living, what does a resident pay and how is that documented, and how does a complaint escalate past the house to the agency and then to the state. A licensed provider with decades in the county should answer all six plainly.