About this Recovery Home
HER House, 419 Bunker Hill Street, is a women's sober house in Fredericksburg, Virginia, operated by Homes Empowering Recovery. Fredericksburg is an independent city with no county, in state behavioral health Region 1. The residence is certified at Level of Support 2 by the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences.
A Women's Sober House on Bunker Hill Street
The house sits inside the Fredericksburg city limits in the 22401 ZIP code and serves women. One gender in one household settles the questions that matter most in early recovery living: who shares the bathroom, who is at the house meeting, whose rules apply. It also lets a house be built around one population's actual needs instead of a compromise between two.
An LGBT-Inclusive Recovery Residence on the State Record
The state register lists this address as serving women, LGBT residents and people with co-occurring disorders. Those entries are useful precisely because they are official. A woman who has been turned away from housing before, or who has watched a household make her identity the subject of every conversation, is choosing on this information. A residence that names the population on a government record has stated what it is prepared to accommodate, and the record is checkable by a case manager making a referral.
What Level 2 Certification Obliges This Sober Living Home To Do
Certification in Virginia is mandatory, so Level 2 is a description with legal weight behind it. Monitored housing means a peer household with an identified manager, written house rules and curfew, documented admission and discharge terms, and clinical care from outside providers. Certification adds obligations on top: a published ethics code, disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a written relapse policy, and complaints reviewed by someone outside the house. Only VARR and Oxford House can grant a credential Virginia accepts, and the state register of certified recovery residences shows this residence as a VARR house.
Fredericksburg Recovery Housing and Getting Around Without a Car
Fredericksburg is compact. FRED Transit runs local routes, Virginia Railway Express and Amtrak stop downtown, and the University of Mary Washington, Mary Washington Hospital, Germanna Community College and the city's courts all sit within a few miles of each other. Rappahannock Area Community Services Board provides publicly funded treatment and peer recovery services for the city and the neighboring counties. A woman who arrives without a car can reach a job, an appointment and a meeting in the same day, which is what makes an early recovery routine survivable.
Applying to This Women's Recovery Home
Applications go through Homes Empowering Recovery, which runs two women's houses and two men's houses in the city plus a fifth, coed residence. Ask what the weekly fee covers, whether a house manager lives on site, how many women share a bedroom, what the written policy says about relapse, and whether prescribed medication for opioid use disorder is accepted. A certified Virginia residence has to answer all of that in writing before anyone signs.
