Lexington Center for Recovery

About Lexington Center for Recovery

Lexington Center for Recovery is a sober living operator in the Lower Hudson Valley of New York, running men's community residences in Westchester and Rockland counties. Its residential program is built for the reintegration stage, and both of its houses in this batch serve men between 18 and 65 who have already done the clinical work.

A Lower Hudson Valley Recovery Housing Provider

Lexington Center for Recovery is a treatment organization with a housing arm. Outpatient clinics, an opioid treatment program, a gambling treatment program and services for teens and young adults all sit inside the same organization, spread across Westchester and Rockland counties. For a resident, that means the housing and the clinical care are coordinated by one agency. The house supplies the address, the structure and the case management; the schedule a resident keeps during the day is filled with treatment, work or school.

Community Residences and Where These Recovery Homes Sit

Two men's community residences carry the organization's name in this region:

• Maple House, on Maple Avenue in Mount Kisco, Westchester County, with 10 beds.
• Emerald House, on Emerald Lane in Montebello, Rockland County, with 16 beds.

A third community residence, Hudson House in Haverstraw, serves men and women. The two men's houses sit on opposite sides of the Hudson, roughly forty minutes apart by road, which gives a resident in either county a placement within his own region.

A Thirty Hour Week Inside These Sober Living Homes

Both men's residences run the same requirement: a 30 hour weekly recovery schedule made up of outpatient treatment, volunteering, educational programming and employment. That single rule defines the program. Residents are not sitting in the house. The organization supplies room and board in a semi-independent, secure setting, along with case management, individual counseling, support and life skills groups, AA and NA meetings, relapse prevention and recreational activities, and expects the resident to fill thirty hours a week with the work of rebuilding.

Serving Men in Reintegration Across Two County Recovery Housing Markets

Both houses serve men aged 18 to 65 in the reintegration stage of recovery from a substance use disorder. That is a narrower admission criterion than most recovery housing publishes, and it is useful. Someone who needs detox or acute clinical supervision is a poor match. Someone who has finished treatment, has a plan for the day and needs a stable address with support attached is exactly the resident these houses are built for.

Certification Behind This Sober Living Operator

Both residences are certified by the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports. New York does not require recovery residences to be certified, and the state's separate voluntary track through its NARR affiliate is described in a guide to NYSARR certification. A certified residence operates under defined staffing, clinical oversight, admission and discharge policy, incident reporting and inspection, which is what gives a family something to verify from out of town.

Reaching This Recovery Housing Provider in Westchester and Rockland

Applications go through Lexington Center for Recovery. Questions at the organization level differ from questions about a specific house: how long the agency has run community residences in the Hudson Valley, whether it accepts referrals from hospitals, courts and outside treatment providers, whether a resident can keep an outside prescriber and outside meetings, how a resident moves between houses, and how a complaint escalates past the house staff to the agency and then to the state.