Recovery Houses of Rochester

About Recovery Houses of Rochester

Recovery Houses of Rochester is a sober living operator in Rochester, New York, in Monroe County, running recovery and transitional housing for men in the city. The organization was founded in November 2002 and has since expanded from housing alone into crisis stabilization, transitional, recovery and permanent affordable housing.

A Rochester Recovery Housing Provider Since 2002

More than two decades in one city is the most informative fact about this operator. An organization that has housed men in Rochester since 2002 has outlasted several funding cycles, a fentanyl era that closed a great many recovery homes, and the turnover in local treatment providers that goes with both. It also means the referral relationships are old. Discharge planners at the Rochester hospitals, the Monroe County courts and the county Department of Human Services have been placing people here for years.

Recovery Houses of Rochester Sober Homes in the City

The organization operates two recovery and transitional housing sites in Rochester:

• A men's site on the East Avenue corridor, east of downtown.
• A men's site on Jones Avenue, on the city's west side.

Both are inside the city and both are reachable on the Regional Transit Service bus network that radiates from the downtown transit center, which puts the courts, the county offices and the two major hospital systems within one ride of either address.

A Recovery Housing Continuum From Rooms to Apartments

The operator runs multiple sites offering housing on a continuum from single room occupancy through to apartments, and its programs span crisis stabilization, transitional housing, recovery housing and permanent affordable housing. That range is what distinguishes it from a standalone sober home. A man can enter at the point of crisis and, over a couple of years, move through transitional and recovery housing into a permanent affordable unit without leaving the organization or explaining his history to a new landlord. The exit from recovery housing is the part that fails most often, and this operator owns both ends of it.

NYSARR Certification and This Sober Living Operator

Certification in New York is voluntary, through either OASAS Part 860 or the New York State Alliance of Recovery Residences, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. This is a certified operator. It has agreed to a published code of ethics, to disclosing fees and house rules in writing before a resident moves in, to keeping a written relapse and discharge policy, and to a complaint process that reaches outside the house. A guide to NYSARR certification in New York explains what the affiliate requires. Very few New York operators hold it, so an operator that does has chosen an accountability most of its competitors have not.

Men's Recovery Housing in Monroe County

Rochester is the seat of Monroe County and the regional center for the Finger Lakes, drawing people from Livingston, Wayne, Ontario and Orleans counties for services their own towns do not have. The Hall of Justice, the county offices and the Department of Human Services are downtown. Strong Memorial and Rochester General anchor two large health systems. Men leaving treatment in the surrounding counties routinely find that the nearest available recovery bed is in the city, and this operator holds a meaningful share of them.