About this Recovery Home
Leslie is a women's sober house on Leslie Lane in Henrico, Virginia, a Henrico County address in the 23228 ZIP code north of the Richmond city line. The WAR Foundation operates it at Level of Support 2 on the state register of certified recovery residences, with accreditation from the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences.
Women's Recovery Housing in Henrico County
Two of this operator's seven residences serve women, which tracks the market: certified women's beds are consistently scarcer than men's across the Richmond metro, and a woman searching is working from a short list. A single-gender household settles bedrooms, bathrooms, house meetings and rules in one decision, and it means nobody is the only woman in a building. In a social-model house, where accountability comes from the people living there, a household facing the same set of problems is doing real work that a mixed building cannot.
A Women's Sober House on a Quiet Henrico Street
Leslie Lane sits in the Lakeside and Dumbarton part of Henrico County, an area of small mid-century homes on residential streets that end a short drive from the city boundary. Bus service along Lakeside Avenue and Brook Road runs into downtown Richmond, and the retail, clinical and warehouse employment along Staples Mill Road and Parham Road is close. A resident here gets a quiet street and keeps access to the places that hold the jobs and the appointments.
The Monitored Level and What It Settles
Level 2 tells a prospective resident what kind of help this is. There is oversight on site and the house runs on written expectations, while therapy, prescribing and case management stay with providers she chooses and keeps. Nobody is managing her clinical care from the kitchen. What the house supplies is a schedule, housemates who are accountable to each other, and consequences written down before anyone needs them.
Certification Through VARR and the State Register
Certification is mandatory in Virginia, and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services publishes the register of certified residences with the operator, street, city and level of support for each one. An accredited house has accepted a code of ethics, written fee and rule disclosure before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, and an outside complaint process. Because the certification belongs to the residence, the register entry for this street is the one that matters.
WAR Foundation Sober Homes and the Recovery Day Center
The foundation keeps its offices and recovery day center on North Parham Road in Henrico and runs court advocacy, transportation assistance, intensive programming, treatment services and REC-CAP recovery capital assessment alongside seven residences in the county and the city. Applications go to the organization, and a woman applying here is considered for either women's house.
