Samaritan Daytop Village

About Samaritan Daytop Village

Samaritan Daytop Village is a sober living operator headquartered in Queens, New York, and one of the largest nonprofit providers of residential addiction treatment and supportive housing in the state. It runs more than eighty programs across ten counties in New York City, Long Island and the Hudson Valley, including certified residential treatment, outpatient clinics, veterans services, primary health care and transitional housing.

Sixty Years of New York Recovery Housing

The organization traces to 1960, when Father Damian Pitcaithly opened its first effort, and it incorporated in 1965 as the Samaritan Halfway Society before opening its first residence in 1969. It became Samaritan Village in 1974 and later merged with Daytop Village, another of the country's foundational therapeutic community organizations. In 1996 it opened the state's first licensed residential treatment facility for military veterans. That history matters to a resident for one reason: an operator that has run houses continuously for six decades has already seen most of what can go wrong in one.

Certified Recovery Homes Across Three Regions

The residential programs covered in this directory are:

• Jarrett Place, on Jarrett Place in the Bronx, forty-eight beds.
• Veritas House, on West 106th Street in Manhattan, thirty-six beds.
• The Young Mothers Program, on West 106th Street in Manhattan, thirty-six beds for women.
• An 89th Road residence in Richmond Hill, Queens, one hundred and four beds.
• A Van Wyck Expressway residence in Jamaica, Queens, ninety-six beds.
• Two Ellenville campuses in Ulster County, on Ulster Heights Road and Briggs Highway, eighty and one hundred and thirty-five beds.
• The Fox Run men's program and the Meadow Run women's program, both on Fox Run Road in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, with ninety-two and fifty-six beds.

The spread runs from dense city blocks to rural campuses ninety miles north, and the range is the point. A person who needs to leave the borough entirely and a person who needs to stay near family can both be placed inside one organization.

The Therapeutic Community Model Behind These Sober Homes

Residential treatment here follows the therapeutic community model, a highly structured environment in which the resident community itself is the instrument of change. Days are scheduled, responsibilities inside the house are real and increase with progress, and residents hold one another to the same standard. Individual and group counseling, job training, education, family support, housing assistance and primary and mental health care are delivered around that structure.

Men's and Women's Recovery Residences and Specialized Programs

Several residences are single-gender, including the Fox Run men's program and the Meadow Run women's program on the same Rhinebeck site, and the Young Mothers Program in Manhattan is built for women. Specialized services across the network include veterans programs, care for pregnant and parenting mothers, older adult services, re-entry support and permanent supportive housing. A referral source dealing with an unusual situation generally has somewhere in this network to send it.

Medication and Co-Occurring Care in Recovery Housing

Medication for addiction treatment is part of what this operator provides for opioid dependence, and co-occurring mental health disorders are treated within the same organization. That combination is not universal in recovery housing. A resident on buprenorphine or methadone who is refused a bed elsewhere often loses the medication along with the housing, and an operator that runs its own opioid treatment programs and outpatient clinics keeps a resident's prescription and address in the same system.

What OASAS Certification Establishes About This Operator

New York imposes no licensing requirement on recovery housing, which means most sober living operators in this state answer to no outside authority. Every residence listed here is certified under Part 820 by the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports, meaning state inspection, published operating standards and a public listing on the certified provider directory. A guide to sober house certification in New York explains how the state's certification regimes differ and what each one covers.

Reaching This New York Sober Living Operator

Admissions run through one central team for the whole organization. A person can call the help line, submit a request online, or walk into any outpatient clinic; an assessment comes first and an in-person intake appointment follows. A sliding fee scale is published. The questions worth asking at the operator level concern the organization: how the right program and level of care are chosen at intake, how a transfer between residences works, how fees are documented under the sliding scale, and how a complaint is escalated past the house to the organization and past the organization to the state.