About this Recovery Home
Westlake House is a women's sober living home on Dumbarton Road in Henrico, Virginia, in Henrico County. It stands directly across the road from the McShin Recovery Resource Foundation's own recovery community center, which is the single most useful fact about the address.
A Women's Sober House Opposite a Recovery Community Center
The foundation publishes 2300 Dumbarton Road as its address, and this residence sits at 2301. The center is 15,000 square feet and open 365 days a year. For a woman in her first ninety days, the distance between housing and program is usually measured in bus transfers and excuses; here it is measured in yards. The state register lists this house as serving women, and it names LGBT residents, veterans and people with co-occurring disorders among the populations accepted.
What Level 2 Certification Commits This Recovery Residence To
The residence is certified through VARR at Level of Support 2, which the affiliate names Monitored. The commitments behind that are specific. Fees and house rules go to an applicant in writing before move-in. A relapse and discharge policy exists on paper. A code of ethics binds the operator. A complaint can be raised with somebody who does not live in the house or work for the operator. Virginia makes certification mandatory and criminalizes operating without it, so this row on the register is a compliance fact as much as a quality signal.
Lakeside and Henrico County Recovery Housing
The Dumbarton Road corridor sits in the Lakeside area of Henrico County, immediately north of the Richmond city line. Henrico County's seat is the independent city of Richmond, which is not part of the county, so a resident's county services and city services sit in two different jurisdictions a short ride apart. In practice the whole footprint is one urban area: Henrico social services, outpatient providers, the Henrico courts on Parham Road, retail and warehouse employment along Brook Road and Staples Mill, all reachable on the GRTC grid.
A Women's Recovery Home Inside a Thirteen-House Network
Four of the operator's houses serve women, and thirteen residences carry its name in total, with 134 beds among them. The nearest men's houses are on the same street and the next one over, run to the same rules by the same organization. A woman who needs to move to a different house after a few months does so inside a system she already knows, and the expectations do not change with the address.
Who Should Look at This Henrico Sober Living Home
It suits a woman leaving detox, treatment or jail who wants daily structure and access to a live program without a commute. Anyone who needs clinical care on site should look at a licensed facility instead, since medical treatment here comes from outside providers. The questions to bring to the application are the ordinary ones: fee and deposit terms, overnight staffing, bedroom assignment, relapse policy, and whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted.
