The Cottage Women's Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

The Cottage is a certified women's recovery residence on Dice Street in Charlottesville, Virginia, an independent city belonging to no county. It is operated by Georgia's Friends, Inc., the nonprofit that has housed women in recovery in the city since 2015, and the state register carries it at Level of Support 2.

A Women's Recovery Residence on Dice Street

Dice Street sits in the Fifeville neighborhood on the south side of Charlottesville, a few blocks from the operator's Ridge Street residence and within walking distance of the University of Virginia medical campus. The location answers the question most people in early recovery are actually asking about an address: whether work, a meeting, a pharmacy and an appointment are reachable without a car. In this part of the city they are. The building opened in 2019 and also holds the organization's administrative offices, a meeting space and a full kitchen, so program activity and staff are on the same ground as the housing.

What Level 2 Sober Living Certification Requires

Certification is the most checkable fact on this listing, and in Virginia it is also mandatory. State law makes operating an uncertified recovery residence a criminal offense, and accreditation runs through the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences. A certified residence publishes a code of ethics, hands an applicant its fees and house rules in writing before move-in, keeps a written relapse and discharge policy, and answers complaints to a body outside the house. Level of Support 2, which the affiliate names Monitored, describes peer housing with a house manager and written daily expectations, with clinical care delivered by outside providers.

Georgia's Friends Recovery Housing in Charlottesville

Georgia's Friends is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in memory of a woman who died in 2006 after years of alcoholism. It serves women with substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions, and it is unusual among Virginia recovery housing providers for how long it will hold a resident. Its Ridge Street residence takes women for as long as two years. A woman applying to one address is applying to an organization with a second one a short walk away, which matters if the fit turns out wrong or a different level of structure is the better answer.

What to Ask Before Moving Into This Charlottesville Sober House

Applications go directly to Georgia's Friends in Charlottesville. Certification obliges answers to most of what a prospective resident needs: what the weekly or monthly fee covers and what it does not, whether a house manager lives on site, how bedrooms are assigned, how long the wait for an opening runs, whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted, and what the written policy says happens after a relapse. Anyone comparing certified recovery housing in the city should confirm the specific address they are applying to, because Virginia certifies residence by residence.