Mid-Michigan Recovery Services

About Mid-Michigan Recovery Services

Mid-Michigan Recovery Services is a sober living operator in Lansing, Michigan, providing certified recovery housing in Ingham County for people leaving homelessness. Its transitional housing is Medicaid funded, with self-pay available, and it is certified by the state's recovery residence affiliate.

A Lansing Recovery Housing Provider

The organization works in Michigan's capital with a specific population in view: people who have experienced homelessness or been isolated from any supportive community. That is a harder group to house than the average referral out of treatment, because the housing problem and the recovery problem arrived together and neither resolves first. The model puts people in a shared transitional house with others in recovery, on the theory that accountability and friendship get built by living alongside someone. An appointment does not produce either.

Recovery Housing as a Route to Permanent Housing

The stated destination is safe, permanent housing, and the transitional stay is designed as the step that makes it reachable. During the stay a resident works on the barriers that keep permanent housing out of reach, including income, documentation, transportation and court obligations. That framing sets the expectation clearly: this is a working stay with an exit in mind, and a prospective resident should ask what the operator expects that work to look like week to week.

Certification for This Ingham County Sober Living Operator

The housing is certified at the supervised Level 3 tier by the Michigan Association of Recovery Residences, Michigan's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. Michigan neither licenses nor registers recovery residences, so certification is voluntary and it carries the whole weight of external accountability: a published code of ethics, fees and house rules disclosed in writing before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint process reviewed outside the house.

Medicaid Funding at This Recovery Housing Provider

The program is Medicaid funded, and residents outside coverage can self-pay at $500 per month. For a person coming out of a shelter, Medicaid coverage is what makes recovery housing a real option instead of a price list, and it is the first thing to settle in an initial call. Residents on medication for opioid use disorder are accepted, and applicants with felony records are accepted.

Serving Men and Women in the Capital Region

The operator houses men and women. A coed household is a practical choice in a mid-sized market where two single-gender houses would each run half full, and it means a couple of referral sources are not competing for the same narrow set of beds. What a resident should ask is how shared and private space is arranged, and whether staff are present overnight.

Recovery Housing in Lansing and Ingham County

Lansing is the state capital and the largest city in Ingham County, whose seat is Mason. State offices, hospitals, Lansing Community College, the tri-county Community Mental Health authority and most of the region's outpatient treatment sit inside the city, with Michigan State University next door in East Lansing, and CATA runs between them. An operator working in Lansing can connect a resident to a caseworker, a class, a clinic and an employer without asking anyone to leave the county.