Genesis Transitional Housing Ministries

About Genesis Transitional Housing Ministries

Genesis Transitional Housing Ministries, Inc. is a sober living operator in Springfield Gardens, New York, providing transitional and recovery housing across Queens County and the surrounding boroughs. It is a faith-based nonprofit led by Rev. Andre Broady, with Rev. Helen D. Broady as assistant executive director, and it pairs housing with life skills, coaching and food assistance.

A Faith-Based New York Recovery Housing Provider

Genesis is a ministry that runs housing, and the two things are not separable in how it operates. The organization describes its work as providing safe housing, life-skills development and essential support for individuals rebuilding their lives. That means a resident is entering a program with a moral framework and a congregation behind it, staffed substantially by volunteers and funded largely by donation. A person who wants that grounding finds it here plainly, and anyone who wants a strictly secular arrangement should raise it at the first conversation.

Where This Queens Sober Living Operator Works

Genesis serves Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Long Island, with its base in the southeastern corner of Queens County around Springfield Gardens, St. Albans and Hollis. That geography puts the organization inside the part of the city with the widest gap between need and available recovery beds. Jamaica, the county seat, supplies the courthouse, the hospitals, the outpatient clinics and the transit hub, and everything the operator runs sits within reach of it.

What This Recovery Housing Provider Reported Last Year

The organization publishes figures for its most recent year of work:

• Housing support for more than 100 individuals.
• More than 7,240 direct service hours.
• Food pantry outreach reaching roughly 30,000 families.

The food pantry number dwarfs the housing number, and that ratio describes the organization accurately. Genesis is a neighborhood service provider that houses people, which is why its residents tend to arrive already connected to it through a church, a pantry line or a family member.

Serving Men and Women in Recovery Housing

The organization houses both men and women. For a nonprofit of this size, that breadth is a choice to serve whoever is in front of them instead of specializing, and it is the reason its housing reaches people that larger operators screen out. Anyone comparing houses should ask how male and female residents are housed and what the arrangement is at each address.

Certification and Recovery Homes in New York

New York does not require certification of recovery residences. The state's NARR affiliate runs one voluntary program and the Office of Addiction Services and Supports runs another, and a guide to sober house certification in New York explains what each involves. Absence from either list tells a family nothing, so the record to ask a small operator for is the written one: fees, house rules, relapse policy and how a complaint gets past the house.

Reaching Genesis Transitional Housing Ministries

Referrals and applications go to the organization. Useful questions at the operator level include how long it has run housing in Queens, which reentry programs, churches and treatment providers it takes referrals from, what a resident pays and what a donation or grant covers, how long a typical stay runs, and who a resident's family speaks to when the house manager cannot settle something.