Community Healing Center

About Community Healing Center

Community Healing Center is a sober living operator in Kalamazoo, Michigan, running recovery homes across southwest Michigan. It is a clinical organization as well as a housing provider, with assessment, counseling and outpatient substance use services alongside five recovery residences, all certified by the Michigan Association of Recovery Residences.

A Southwest Michigan Recovery Housing Provider

The combination of clinical services and housing under one roof is what defines this provider. A resident's counselor and the person who manages the house he lives in work for the same organization, so a housing problem and a treatment problem get addressed in the same conversation. The organization's main site is in Kalamazoo, and it also runs Carol's Hope in St. Joseph, which extends its reach to the Berrien County lakeshore.

Recovery Homes in Kalamazoo, Sturgis, Niles and Beyond

Five recovery homes carry the Community Healing Center name across southwest Michigan, split two men's houses and two women's houses, with coed beds in the mix. Residences operate in Kalamazoo, in Sturgis in St. Joseph County, and in Niles in southern Berrien County. MARR publishes no street addresses for Michigan recovery residences, so placement runs through the organization's recovery housing coordinator, who matches an applicant to the house with an appropriate open bed. Spreading houses across three counties means a resident can often stay in the county where family, work and a probation officer already are.

Women's Sober Houses That Accept Mothers and Children

The women's residences accommodate women who are pregnant and mothers with children up to age eight in their custody. Very little of Michigan's recovery housing stock does, and the shortage forces women to choose between a bed and their children. Two houses in this group take the other position, which makes this operator one of the few realistic options for a mother in early recovery in the southwest corner of the state.

Ninety Days of Funded Recovery Housing

The program runs ninety days for adults eighteen and older and is funded by Southwest Michigan Behavioral Health through a federal block grant. For a qualifying resident, that removes the obstacle that ends most placements in the first month, which is finding weekly rent before the first paycheck clears. Eligibility runs through the regional entity, so the opening conversation settles funding and a bed together, and the ninety-day frame means discharge planning starts early.

Level 3 Certification and the Michigan Standard

Michigan licenses clinical treatment and leaves recovery residences unregulated. No state agency certifies, registers or inspects them, and there is no state list to check, so MARR certification is voluntary and is the only external standard available. It commits each residence to a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a documented relapse and discharge policy, and complaint review from outside the house. MARR lists this operator's residences at Level 3, the supervised model with staff on site, and grants certification address by address.

Access, Medication and Reentry Across These Sober Homes

The listed residences are ADA accessible, accept residents on prescribed medication for opioid use disorder, and consider applicants with felony records. Treatment courts, child welfare agencies and reentry programs across Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Berrien counties refer people who need all three answers to be yes, and an operator that says so publicly is doing referral sources a service.

Reaching This Kalamazoo Sober Living Operator

Applications go to Community Healing Center, and the questions worth asking at the operator level differ from the ones about a single address: how funding is confirmed before a move-in date is set, which house an applicant is actually being offered, how a transfer between houses works, how fees and deposits are documented, and how a complaint escalates past the house to the organization and then to the certifying body.