Rachel's House Women's Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

Rachel's House is a women's recovery residence at 17 Pershing Avenue NW in Leesburg, Virginia, the seat of Loudoun County. It is run by Loudoun Serenity House and appears on the state's register of certified recovery residences at Level of Support 2, accredited through the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences.

A Women's Sober House on Pershing Avenue

Pershing Avenue NW is in the 20176 ZIP code on the north side of Leesburg, a residential stretch a short distance from the town's historic center. The house serves women and runs as its own household with its own manager and house agreement. It is one of two women's residences the operator maintains in the town, which gives a resident who needs a different set of housemates somewhere to go without leaving Leesburg.

Two Women's Recovery Homes and One Men's Under One Operator

Loudoun Serenity House operates three residences: this one and Hope House for women, and Mike's House for men. Keeping the genders in separate buildings means each household's rules, meetings and shared space are written for one population. For a woman it also means a transfer is possible inside the same organization, with the same fee structure and the same staff, if the fit of a particular household turns out wrong after move-in.

Entry Requirements for This Recovery Residence

The operator publishes what it requires: applicants must be at least eighteen, have thirty or more days of sobriety, and have completed a formal treatment program. Weekly rates are described as affordable, and applications are submitted through an online form. Those requirements place the house clearly on the continuum. It is transitional housing for someone who has finished treatment and needs a structured address while she goes back to work or school.

What the State Register Publishes About This Sober Living Home

Virginia requires certification by law and publishes the results. The register entry for this address gives the accrediting body, the population served, which includes women, LGBT residents, veterans and people with co-occurring disorders, and a numeric level of support. Only VARR and Oxford House can grant a credential the state accepts. A prospective resident or a referring counselor can therefore verify the house's status independently, and the same record shows which other residences in the county hold the credential.

Loudoun County Recovery Housing and Getting to Work

Leesburg is the county seat, which puts the courthouse, court services and the county's community services board within the same town as the house. Metro's Silver Line terminates in eastern Loudoun and county commuter buses connect to it, so jobs across Northern Virginia are reachable without a car. Inova Loudoun Hospital serves the area. In a county this expensive, certified recovery housing priced for someone rebuilding a work history is in short supply, and a woman who wants to stay near her children, her job or her court obligations in Northern Virginia has few equivalents to choose from.