About this Recovery Home
Walkenhut is a men's recovery home on Walkenhut Drive in Henrico, Virginia, a Henrico County address in the 23228 ZIP code just north of the Richmond city line. The WAR Foundation operates it at Level of Support 2 on the state's certified-residence register, accredited through the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences.
A Men's Sober House on Walkenhut Drive
This part of Henrico County, the Lakeside and Dumbarton side, is made up of modest mid-century houses on quiet streets that run to the city boundary a short distance south. A recovery home works well in that setting for an unglamorous reason: it looks like every other house on the block, and a resident is not announcing his situation to the neighborhood every time he comes home from work. Bus service along Lakeside Avenue and Brook Road reaches downtown Richmond, and the Staples Mill and Parham corridors put warehouse, trade and retail employment within a few miles.
Henrico County Recovery Housing North of the City Line
Henrico County surrounds Richmond on three sides, and the county's seat is Richmond itself, an independent city that is not part of the county. That produces a useful asymmetry for a resident at this address. County streets, county services and county employment are on his side of the line. The courts, the state behavioral health offices, VCU Health and the region's transit hub sit a few miles south inside the city. A single bus ride connects the two, which is why so much of the metro's recovery housing sits along this seam.
What Level Two Accreditation Establishes
A monitored residence in Virginia commits to written rules, on-site oversight and outside clinical care. Accreditation commits it to more: a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint route that reaches past the house to the certifying body. Because certification is mandatory in this state under Va. Code 37.2-431.1, the register is a compliance document as well as a marketing one, and it is the right place to confirm any single address.
A Day Center, Transportation and Sober Living Together
Alongside its residences the WAR Foundation runs a recovery day center, transportation assistance, court advocacy, intensive programming, treatment services and REC-CAP recovery capital assessment, with administrative offices on North Parham Road in Henrico. The day center matters most in the first weeks, when a resident has hours to fill and no routine yet, and the transportation help matters most in a suburban county where a lost ride can cost a job.
Applying Through WAR Foundation Sober Living
Placement runs through the organization, which holds seven residences across the county and the city at two levels of support. The questions worth settling before signing are the ones accreditation obliges an answer to: the weekly fee and what it includes, whether a house manager lives on site, how bedrooms are assigned, what the written relapse policy says, and whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted.
