My House Ministry

About My House Ministry

My House Ministry is a recovery housing provider in Holland, Michigan, running an eighteen-month transitional housing program for women in Ottawa County. It is a nonprofit organization offering Christian mentoring and discipleship alongside life-skills instruction and financial coaching, and its housing is certified through the state's recovery residence affiliate.

An Eighteen-Month West Michigan Recovery Housing Program

The length is what sets this provider apart. Most recovery housing in Michigan is measured in months, and eighteen of them is long enough to change a woman's circumstances instead of only her sobriety. In a year and a half a resident can finish a credential, hold a job through a bad stretch, repair a credit record and save a deposit. The program is designed around that arc, and the financial coaching in the curriculum exists because a woman who leaves sober but broke tends to come back.

A Sober Living Operator That Houses Women With Their Children

Children live with their mothers in this program, which removes the choice that keeps many women out of recovery housing altogether. The organization describes a household where women learn skills from one another and where healthy relationships are modeled and healthy patterns established, and with children present that modeling carries most of the weight. Referrals reach the operator from treatment providers and from agencies working with families, and the questions worth asking are about ages, schooling and parenting time.

Certification Behind This Recovery Housing Provider

Michigan has no state licensure, certification or registration requirement for recovery residences, so certification through the Michigan Association of Recovery Residences, the state's NARR affiliate, is voluntary and it is the external record a resident can check. It commits the housing to a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and house rules before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint process outside the household. Over an eighteen-month stay those written commitments matter more than they would over ninety days, simply because there is more time for a disagreement to arise.

What This Operator's Recovery Housing Costs

The published fee is $175 per week. Over the full program that is a substantial commitment, and it is paired with an expectation that residents work, budget and plan while they pay it. The only address the organization publishes is an office suite in Holland, so placement and applications go through the operator. Anyone applying should confirm what the weekly fee covers, what is due at move-in, and how the program handles a period without income.

Where This Holland Sober Living Operator Works

The footprint is Holland and the surrounding Ottawa and Allegan county area on Michigan's west coast. Holland has a walkable downtown, a college, a hospital and a manufacturing base that hires steadily, which is a good combination for a program built on employment and life skills. Grand Haven holds the Ottawa County seat up the shore, and Grand Rapids is half an hour inland with the region's family courts and its fuller set of outpatient providers, so a resident here is inside reach of both.