The Landing

About The Landing

The Landing is a sober living operator in Bay Minette, Alabama, providing certified recovery housing for women in Baldwin County. Executive director Haley Beason runs the organization, which serves the Alabama Gulf Coast from the county seat.

A Baldwin County Sober Living Operator

Baldwin County is the largest county in Alabama by land area and among the fastest growing, and its certified recovery housing has not grown with it. An operator based in the county seat is therefore working in a market with more demand than supply, which shapes everything from waiting lists to referral relationships. Being in Bay Minette, away from the beach towns, also keeps the organization next to the courthouse, the jail and the probation offices where a good share of its referrals originate.

Certified Recovery Housing on the Gulf Coast

Certification in Alabama is voluntary and comes from the Alabama Alliance for Recovery Residences, the state affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences, granted one address at a time. It commits a residence to a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and house rules before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint process that reaches past the house. Alabama has no licensure system for recovery residences, so certification is the public record a family can actually check on a Gulf Coast provider.

Who Runs This Recovery Housing Provider

Haley Beason is the executive director and the person placement runs through. In an organization this size the director is also the point of contact for treatment providers, probation officers and families, which means an applicant is talking to someone who can answer about beds, fees and expectations in a single call. The street address of the housing is not published, and a resident learns it through the application process.

Where This Sober Living Operator Works

The service area is the Alabama Gulf Coast: Bay Minette and north Baldwin, the Eastern Shore communities of Daphne, Fairhope and Spanish Fort, the Foley and Gulf Shores end of the county, and Mobile across the bay. Women in those communities often find the county's certified options number in the single digits, so an operator in the county seat draws from the whole of it.

Applying to This Recovery Housing Provider

Applications go directly to the operator. At that level, ask how long the organization has housed women in Baldwin County, whether it accepts referrals from treatment providers, detox units and the courts, how the weekly fee and any deposit are documented and returned, whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted, and how a complaint escalates past the house to the certifying body. A certified operator should have those answers in writing.