Caz Recovery

About Caz Recovery

Caz Recovery is a sober living operator based in Buffalo, New York, running certified residential programs and supported housing across Western New York. It trades under that name as Cazenovia Recovery Systems, and its houses and apartments reach through Erie and Niagara Counties, from Buffalo out to Lockport, Niagara Falls, Eden and the Lake Ontario shore.

A Western New York Recovery Housing Provider

Caz Recovery describes itself as providing residential treatment and support services for people with substance use disorders, and says it helps residents find their way to a better life. The organization runs ten residential programs together with supported apartments, medication-assisted treatment, trauma-informed care and social care network services. Its corporate office is on Main Street in Buffalo, and the register itself labels that address an administrative site, so no residents live there.

Buffalo Sober Homes and Residences Across Two Counties

The operator's residential and housing programs include:

• Casa Di Vita, on Albany Street in Buffalo, for 19 women.
• Cazenovia Manor, on North Legion Drive in South Buffalo, a men's rehabilitation house with 23 beds.
• Unity House, on Sycamore Street in Buffalo, a 24-bed reintegration residence for homeless men.
• Turning Point House, on Sandrock Road in Eden, a 30-bed men's rehabilitation house.
• Madonna House, on Niagara Street Extension in Lockport, for 16 women and their young children.
• Sundram Manor, on Memorial Parkway in Niagara Falls, a 17-bed men's reintegration residence.
• Somerset House, on Lake Road in Appleton, a 17-bed women's reintegration residence.
• Garden Lofts, on Main Street in Buffalo, with 23 supported studio apartments.
• Step Toward Success, peer-supported apartments throughout Buffalo and its suburbs, for which no street addresses are published.

The spread across two counties is the operator's strongest feature. A resident can be placed in a city, a small city or the countryside, and the intake team is the same in every case.

Rehabilitation and Reintegration Sober Living, Kept Separate

Caz Recovery divides its houses into two levels and labels them plainly. Rehabilitation programs organize the day around treatment delivered where the resident sleeps, which is where someone goes who is early or unsteady. Reintegration programs assume the acute stage has passed and the task is employment, education, medical care and an independent routine. Supported and peer-supported apartments sit at the far end, where a resident holds their own space. Naming the levels openly is useful, because it lets a referring counselor match a person to a setting instead of taking whatever bed is open.

Men's and Women's Sober Houses and Family Placements

Three residences serve women: Casa Di Vita in Buffalo, Somerset House in Appleton and Madonna House in Lockport, which takes mothers with children of preschool age or younger living on site. Four serve men: Cazenovia Manor and Unity House in Buffalo, Turning Point House in Eden and Sundram Manor in Niagara Falls. The scattered-site apartments serve men and women and can accommodate parents with young children. Keeping the split at the house level means each household is written for one population.

What OASAS Certification Establishes for This Sober Living Operator

New York does not require a recovery residence to hold any certification, and the state's voluntary pathway for them remains unfinished. Residential addiction treatment is regulated under Part 820, and Caz Recovery's residences are certified under it by the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports, each one listed publicly with its address, capacity and program type. An operator that has placed every residential program inside that framework has accepted state review of its services and staffing and given residents a complaint route outside the house. A guide to sober house certification in New York explains what that credential does and does not cover.

An Operator That Publishes Its Recovery Housing Outcomes

Caz Recovery publishes annual outcome and satisfaction figures on its individual program pages. For 2022 it reports that 71% of Casa Di Vita residents remained free of drugs and alcohol during their stay with 96% satisfied, and that 96% of Madonna House residents remained free of drugs and alcohol with 95% satisfied. Numbers of this kind describe one year and one program. The habit of measuring and publishing them is uncommon in recovery housing, and a prospective resident can ask how the figures are gathered.

Serving Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Lockport

Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the second largest city in New York, holding the courts, the social services offices, Erie County Medical Center, the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, Erie Community College and the NFTA Metro network. Lockport is the seat of Niagara County, built around the Erie Canal locks, and carries the county courthouse and county offices. Niagara Falls is the largest city in that county and turns over entry-level work constantly. Between them the three cities hold nearly everything a person in recovery in Western New York has to reach, and Caz Recovery has placed housing in all of them.