About this Recovery Home
Scott House is a men's recovery residence on Dumbarton Avenue in Henrico, Virginia, in Henrico County. The state register certifies it at Level of Support 3, the highest level of structure the McShin Recovery Resource Foundation carries on any of its thirteen houses.
Level 3 Supervised Sober Living, and What the Number Means
Virginia publishes a numeric level for each certified residence, and VARR gives those numbers names. Level 3 is Supervised. It sits above the peer-run and monitored tiers and describes housing with an administrative overlay: staff involvement in the daily schedule, structured programming inside the house, and supervision that does not depend on whichever resident has the most sober time. Two of this operator's houses carry Level 3 and the rest are Level 2, so the difference is a deliberate choice about what this particular house is for.
A Men's Sober House for Someone Who Needs the Day Built
The register lists this residence as accepting men, LGBT residents, veterans and people with co-occurring disorders. Supervised housing is the right call for a man whose last two attempts came apart in unstructured time, and for someone leaving a residential program who is not ready to assemble a week on his own. It is the wrong call for a resident who already has a job, a sponsor and a routine, and who would experience the structure as interference. That distinction is the reason a portfolio with more than one level is more useful than a single house.
What Certification Obliges a Virginia Recovery Residence to Disclose
Accreditation through VARR is not a rating. It is a set of commitments a house makes and can be held to: fees and rules disclosed in writing before move-in, a documented relapse and discharge policy, a published code of ethics, and a complaint process that reaches past the house and past the operator. Virginia recognizes only two certifying bodies and makes operating without one of them a criminal offense, which is why every serious recovery housing conversation in this state starts with the register row.
Dumbarton Avenue and the Henrico County Sober House Cluster
Five of the operator's residences sit within about a mile of this one, in the Lakeside pocket of Henrico County just north of the Richmond line, along with the foundation's recovery community center on Dumbarton Road. Henrico County's seat is the independent city of Richmond, which is not part of the county, so services split across two jurisdictions that share one bus network. Everything a resident needs in the first six months, appointments, a court date, a job, a meeting, falls inside that footprint.
Moving Between Recovery Homes in One Network
A man who starts at Level 3 and outgrows it can step down to one of the operator's monitored houses without changing organization, county or provider. That step is the point of running a laddered set of homes, and it is a conversation with staff who already know his history instead of a fresh application to strangers.
