Staples Mill Men's Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

Staples Mill is a men's recovery residence on Staples Mill Road in Henrico, Virginia, in Henrico County. It carries Level of Support 2 certification on the Virginia state register under True Recovery RVA, and the register lists it as serving men, LGBT residents and men with co-occurring disorders.

A Men's Sober House on Staples Mill Road

Staples Mill Road is one of Henrico County's main north-south arteries, and an address on it solves a problem most people in early recovery are actually trying to solve. Bus service runs the corridor, the Richmond Amtrak station sits on the same road, and the retail and warehouse employment along it is the kind that hires someone with a gap in their work history. A resident without a car is not stranded here.

The State Register Entry for This Sober Living Home

Virginia publishes a register of every certified recovery residence with its operator, city, credentialing body, level of support and the populations it serves. Staples Mill appears on it as a VARR-accredited residence at Level 2. That entry is a public record a prospective resident or a referring case manager can pull up and read, which is a different and stronger thing than a house saying it is certified. The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services maintains the list.

Monitored Recovery Housing and Peer Accountability

Level 2 puts a house manager over the residence and written expectations under every resident. The accountability that makes this model work is horizontal. Men living here answer to each other for the hours nobody is supervising them, and the house meeting is where that gets handled. Clinical care comes from outside providers, so a resident keeps his own prescriber and his own therapist while the house holds the structure.

Sister Sober Houses Within a Few Blocks

Three more True Recovery RVA men's residences sit in the same north Henrico pocket: Old Wistar and New Wistar on Wistar Village Drive, and Laurel Pine Drive a short distance north. Dumbarton Road is nearby in the Lakeside area. A resident who needs a different level of structure can move inside the operator's network without changing city, bus route or outpatient provider, and the people making that decision already know him.

Serving Men With Co-Occurring Diagnoses

The register names co-occurring disorders in this residence's population field. A man whose recovery depends on both a substance use plan and a psychiatric medication has a narrower set of housing options than the raw count of sober houses suggests, because some houses will not accommodate the appointments or the prescriptions. A residence that has recorded that population with the state has committed to it in a document, which is where the search should start.