Programs & Services Overview
East House empowers individuals with mental health and substance use disorders to recover and to live healthy and fulfilling lives.
Founded in 1966, with the belief that safe, quality housing is necessary for healing and recovery. East House provides a wide-array of support housing and recovery support services in Monroe County. More than 1,250 individuals and their families benefit each year from East House, a majority living below the federal poverty level. East House employs more than 225 staff who are recovery-oriented and take a person-centered approach to treatment.
East House’s programs and services incorporate the eight dimensions of wellness throughout the wide array of services offered.
We continue to recognize each dimension of wellness in all of our programs and services. These dimensions include, environment, financial, intellectual, occupational, physical, spiritual, social and emotional.
East House works with the following regulators and network providers with both housing and support programs:
NYS Office of Mental Health
NYS Office of Addiction Services & Supports (OASAS)
Health Homes of Upstate New York (HHUNY)
Greater Rochester Health Home Network (GRHHN)
Office of Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG)
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Home & Community-Based Services (HCBS)
and various other funders
Affinity Place Short-Term Respite:
Feel like you may be experiencing a mental health crisis? Need a safe place to recover? The hospital isn’t your only option. Affinity Place is a no-fee, short-term, bed and breakfast style housing option staffed by people with lived experience.
Affinity Place is available to residents of Monroe, Genesee, Livingston, Orleans, Wayne, and Wyoming Counties for up to 28 days. Affinity Place doesn’t offer immediate placement. You must call to inquire about getting on the waitlist.
After your stay at Affinity Place, our East House staff will support you in your search for any future housing opportunities.
If you are 18 years or older, have a diagnosis of a serious mental illness and are experiencing a crisis you may be eligible for a short-term stay.
To learn more about Affinity Place respite services, please call 585-563-7083.
If you would like to have a conversation with one of our Peer Crisis Mentors, please call 585-563-7470.
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