About this Recovery Home
Jacobs House is a women's recovery residence on Jacobs Avenue in Hopewell, Virginia, in DBHDS Region 4, certified at Level of Support 2 on Virginia's state register. Personal Solutions Counseling Services operates it.
A Women's Sober House on Jacobs Avenue
Hopewell sits at the confluence of the Appomattox and James rivers southeast of Richmond, a small industrial city of tidy residential blocks. Women here live in a single-gender household with a manager over the residence and one written set of expectations. In a city this size, a certified women's residence is often the only certified women's residence, which changes the calculation for someone who wants to stay near family, a job or a court obligation in Hopewell instead of relocating to Richmond.
Hopewell Is an Independent City for Recovery Housing Purposes
Virginia's independent cities belong to no county, and Hopewell is one of them. Its courts, social services and school system are the city's own, and Prince George and Chesterfield counties surround it without governing it. For a resident, this matters when a case manager, a probation officer or a benefits application has to be routed correctly. The address determines which government handles it, and this address is Hopewell's.
Level 2 Certification and the Virginia Register
Virginia makes certification mandatory for recovery residences and publishes a register of every certified house. This one is listed at the monitored level through the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences, which means a house manager, written rules applying to all residents, drug screening, and clinical care through outside providers. The credential also commits the residence to disclosing fees and rules before move-in and to a complaint process that reaches beyond the house.
A Women's Recovery Home Outside the Richmond Core
Most of Region 4's certified recovery housing is concentrated in Richmond, Henrico County and Chesterfield County. Hopewell is at the region's southeastern edge, roughly half an hour from the city, with its own hospital, its own outpatient providers and the Tri-Cities employment base around Petersburg and Fort Gregg-Adams. A resident who does not want to rebuild a routine in an unfamiliar city can do it here.
Applying Through the Operator
Applications go to Personal Solutions Counseling Services, which also runs partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient and community-based mental health services. Ask whether enrollment in the operator's clinical programs is expected, how transportation to appointments in Hopewell and Richmond is handled, what the weekly fee covers, whether children can visit, and what the written relapse and discharge policy says. Certification requires those answers on paper.
