What We Do
Sullivan House was created as a critical response to a pressing shortfall within our mental healthcare infrastructure, specifically addressing the urgent need for supportive housing tailored to adults with severe mental illnesses and other neurodivergent conditions. Our unique model addresses a crucial and neglected gap within our communities that has proven to be successful at dramatically enhancing our client’s potential for successful long-term outcomes.
Sullivan House provides an essential transitional environment post-hospitalization or post discharge from inpatient residential care, which, as evidenced by numerous success stories, has proven to be a game-changer for sustained recovery and reintegration outcomes for our clients. While many individuals successfully manage independent living, an equally substantial amount of individuals require ongoing support with their daily activities. For many, the transition can be fraught with challenges due to the scarcity and affordability of suitable and supportive options. At Sullivan House, we bridge this critical gap by offering a continuum of care that diligently serves adults facing severe mental health challenges, who require consistent and ongoing support, but do not require 24/7 supervision.
Our approach provides a cost-effective alternative to extended inpatient care, which requires intense supervision. We prioritize affordability while maintaining the highest standards of support, ensuring our residents receive a supportive, structured, and empowered environment essential for their transition from a highly monitored, highly structured facility. The culture and model of Sullivan House is unlike anything that exists. A culture that could only be created with the special touch of people who have supported their own loved ones with mental illness and know uniquely and intimately the shortfalls, needs and wishes of adults who struggle to advocate for themselves, and the families who become lost in the byzantine of a healthcare system that doesn’t provide sufficient support for their loved ones.
Our Motivation
Sullivan House emerged from a personal crisis—a response to the sudden passing of my father in 2017, which unexpectedly placed me in the guardianship role for my brother. My brother has faced developmental challenges from birth and was only successfully diagnosed with schizophrenia in his mid-thirties, a development that profoundly deepened my families need for specialized support. Confronted with the dual responsibility of care and advocacy, I embarked on an exhausting quest to find a sustainable living solution that I would be able to afford long-term, and would adequately address and support my brother’s unique needs. This exhaustive search across numerous facilities nationwide revealed the stark inadequacies which exists in our mental healthcare system: it was dead end after dead end—including limited availability, discouragingly long waitlists, and many other significant obstacles and hurdles to jump through in what proved to be a convoluted impasse of no solutions for my brother.
Motivated by these challenges, I established Grace and Mind Supportive Recovery with a clear and focused mission: to offer everything my brother needed for himself and others—Long-term housing and supportive services for individuals living with mental illness. With this energy behind us, we work to help not only our clients, but help to give the families their lives back, by offering a new path that diverges from the costly traditional, prohibitive, beholden-to-insurance psychiatric inpatient residential care model and the sober-living houses which exists to house and support individuals living with addiction and not primary mental health.
Sullivan House is more than just a facility—it is a testament to the conviction that alternative, more accessible financial models can and should exist. It stands as a symbol of our belief that everyone deserves the opportunity to live with dignity and receive necessary support without the strain of overwhelming costs. Our endeavor represents a significant step toward reimagining how we care for those with mental health challenges, offering a model that emphasizes affordability, individual dignity and community integration.