New Paths

About New Paths

New Paths is a sober living operator and treatment provider in Flint, Michigan, running certified recovery housing in Genesee County. Its housing is certified at Level 3 and Level 4 by the Michigan Association of Recovery Residences, and it serves men and women.

A Flint Sober Living Operator

The organization works in the county seat, and it runs both treatment and housing. That combination shapes who it can take. Residents are expected to participate in treatment services and to stay connected to a recovery pathway, so the housing is the residential part of a program. Employment and school are permitted and encouraged, and abstinence from mood-altering substances is the condition of staying.

Treatment and Recovery Housing From One Provider

Housing runs in two forms, single-family homes and congregate settings, and certification is held at two levels, supervised and clinically staffed. Those pairings let the organization hold a wide range of need under one roof of accountability. Someone stepping out of detox who needs services delivered where they sleep and someone eighteen months in who needs a stable address and a curfew can both be placed, and a move between the two is an internal decision.

Public Funding Through This Recovery Housing Provider

Residents on Medicaid or block grant funding have their rate determined by the regional prepaid inpatient health plan. Self-pay rates run from $540 to $650 per month, and the figure includes heat, electricity, gas, water and trash service. A bundled monthly number carries real weight in Michigan, where a January heating bill is the line item that most often breaks a household budget in early recovery.

Where This Genesee County Sober Living Operator Works

Flint is both the largest city and the county seat, holding the circuit court, the public behavioral health system, two hospitals, a community college and the county bus network. Genesee County sits between metropolitan Detroit and the Tri-Cities, and Flint draws people from Lapeer, Shiawassee and the northern edge of Oakland County who cannot find certified housing where they live. An operator with certified beds in the city puts a resident inside all of that at one address.

Reaching New Paths in Flint, Michigan

Applications go to the organization. At the operator level the questions concern how housing and program fit together: whether a resident must attend this organization's own treatment services, how a funding determination is made and how long it takes, what the self-pay figure covers, how long a stay can run, and what the discharge policy says. A provider certified at two levels has documented answers for each.