Positive Images

About Positive Images

Positive Images is a sober living operator in Detroit, Michigan, providing certified recovery housing for women in Wayne County. Its housing is certified by the Michigan Association of Recovery Residences at the specialty end of the national continuum, and it works on a Housing First model.

A Detroit Recovery Housing Provider for Women

Women's recovery housing is the scarcer half of Michigan's stock, and it is scarcest in the places with the most demand. An operator running women's specialty housing in Detroit is therefore working in a narrow market: referral sources across Wayne County are looking for the same beds, and many providers that say they serve women in fact serve mostly men in mixed buildings. This provider serves women, which makes it a short-list name for discharge planners and family members searching in southeast Michigan.

Housing First as an Admissions Policy

The operator states it uses the Housing First model for people whose immediate goal is a sober living environment. Housing First inverts the usual order: the address is provided first, and stability is built from there instead of being required before entry. In practice it shortens the gap between a discharge and a bed, which is the gap where most early returns to use happen. It also means the questions to ask are about what happens after move-in, since the entry requirements are deliberately light.

Community Integration and Person-Centered Planning

The organization describes services designed around each resident's own goals, strengths, abilities, needs, health and safety, with attention to where someone is in their life, and it frames the work as home and community integration through productive activity. Read plainly, that means the plan is written with the resident instead of handed to her, and the aim is a life outside the residence: work, school, family, volunteering. A prospective resident should ask what productive activity is expected of her, how the plan gets reviewed, and what support exists for the move to independent housing.

Reaching This Detroit Sober Living Operator

Applications go directly to the operator, which publishes no street address. At the company level, ask how long it has provided recovery housing for women in Detroit, whether it takes referrals from the regional behavioral health network, the courts and residential treatment programs, what the weekly and monthly figures include, how fees are handled when a resident's income changes, and how a complaint is escalated past house staff to the operator and then to the certifying body. Michigan has no state license or registry for recovery residences, so certification through the state's NARR affiliate is the only external record a family can check.