Integrity Homes

About Integrity Homes

Integrity Homes is a sober living operator in Freeport, New York, in Nassau County, running men's recovery housing across Long Island. The company publishes several Nassau County addresses and houses residents in semi private rooms with same sex suite arrangements.

A Nassau County Sober Living Operator

The business is narrow by design: men's sober living, in one county, in ordinary residential houses. That focus has practical effects a resident notices. The operator knows the local labor market, the local court calendar and the local treatment providers, because every house it runs draws from the same twenty mile radius. A referral from a Nassau County detox lands with someone who already knows the discharge planner's name.

Integrity Homes Sober Homes on Long Island

The company publishes the following Nassau County locations:

• A men's sober home on Elliott Place in Freeport.
• A men's sober home on Van Buren Street in Uniondale.
• A second men's sober home in Freeport.

Freeport is a South Shore village with a Long Island Rail Road station on the Babylon Branch. Uniondale sits in the geographic center of the county, near the Hempstead Transit Center and Hofstra University. Between them the two towns cover the parts of Nassau County where bus and rail service is genuinely usable.

How This Recovery Housing Provider Arranges Rooms

Residents live in semi private rooms, and suites are kept single gender inside each property. Two men to a room with a shared bathroom in the suite is the configuration that keeps a weekly fee within reach of an entry level wage while still giving a resident a door. It also creates the most reliable form of accountability in sober living, because a roommate notices a change in someone's routine days before a house manager would.

Men's Recovery Housing in Nassau County

Nassau County has well over a million residents, a county seat at Mineola holding the courts and the county human services offices, a public hospital in East Meadow, and a shortage of recovery housing relative to all of that. Demand is highest along the South Shore and through the central corridor, which is exactly where these houses sit. A man leaving treatment in Nassau County who wants to stay near family and keep a job usually finds that the alternatives are further from both.

What to Ask a Long Island Sober Living Operator

Recovery residences in New York are not licensed, and certification through OASAS Part 860 or the New York State Alliance of Recovery Residences is voluntary, so an applicant's protection is documentation. A guide to the OASAS certification application explains what a certified house has to document. At the operator level, ask how long the company has housed men on Long Island, whether it accepts referrals from treatment providers and the county, how the deposit and weekly fee are documented and refunded, whether a resident can transfer between houses, and how a complaint is escalated past the house.