Seafield

About Seafield

Seafield is a sober living operator in Westhampton Beach, New York, running recovery homes and inpatient addiction treatment across Long Island. It operates ten recovery homes with 154 sober house beds in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, alongside a 100-bed inpatient detox and rehabilitation facility.

A Long Island Recovery Housing Provider With Its Own Treatment Center

Most sober living operators buy or rent houses and refer residents out for clinical care. This one owns both ends. The inpatient facility at 7 Seafield Lane in Westhampton Beach handles detox and rehabilitation for men and women over the age of 16, and the recovery homes handle the months that follow. A person can move through withdrawal, treatment and transitional housing inside one organization, which removes the two handoffs where people most often disappear from care.

Where the Recovery Homes Are

Ten homes carry 154 sober house beds, published by town and gender:

• Riverhead, Suffolk County: men's and women's houses.
• Medford, Suffolk County: men's houses.
• Amityville, Suffolk County: men's houses.
• Uniondale, Nassau County: men's and women's houses.
• Hempstead, Nassau County: men's houses.

The operator does not publish the street addresses of its recovery homes, and placement into a specific house runs through intake. It houses men, women and young men in separate houses. The footprint runs the length of the island, from the county seat at Riverhead in the east to the Nassau villages a short train ride from the New York City line.

House Rules That Apply Across the Sober House Network

Three conditions govern residency everywhere in the network. Residents must be committed to their recovery, attend Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous meetings, and contribute to the well-being of the local community. That third condition is a decision about how the houses sit in their neighborhoods, and it is the sort of thing that determines whether recovery housing survives in a suburban village over the long run.

Medication-Assisted Treatment in These Recovery Homes

Several of the homes offer medication-assisted treatment for qualified residents, and people taking naltrexone, buprenorphine or suboxone are eligible for those houses. Acceptance is not universal across the portfolio, so this is a question to settle at intake instead of after a bed is offered. An operator that accommodates prescribed medication in part of its network keeps a resident's treatment and their address aligned, which is the situation a great many sober houses fail.

What Recovery Housing Costs Through This Operator

Housing is offered at rates the organization describes as affordable. Two funding paths sit behind that. Treatment at facilities licensed by the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports is covered by insurance, and individuals may be eligible for public assistance toward the cost of recovery housing itself. Those are separate applications, and starting both early is what keeps a placement from falling through. New York leaves recovery residence certification voluntary, and what the credentials mean is explained in this guide to sober house certification in New York.

Referrals From Across the Country

Seafield accepts referrals from treatment centers nationwide, which is unusual for an operator of this size and says something about how it is positioned. Long Island draws people who want distance from where their use took place, and an operator with beds from Riverhead to Hempstead can put someone within reach of family without putting them back on the same block. Questions worth asking at the organizational level include how long the wait runs for each town, how a resident moves between houses if the fit is wrong, and how the handoff from inpatient care into a house is scheduled.