The Landing Men's Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

The Landing is a men's sober house on Starling Avenue in Martinsville, Virginia, certified through VARR at Level of Support 2 and operated by Piedmont Community Services in DBHDS Region 3. The state register records it for men with co-occurring disorders.

A Sober House Registered for Co-Occurring Disorders

The population line on this residence's register entry is the thing to read first. Co-occurring means a resident carrying both a substance use disorder and a mental health diagnosis, and a house that registers for it is signaling that its structure and its staff expectations account for psychiatric medication, therapy appointments and the harder days that come with both conditions at once. Plenty of peer-run housing quietly screens those applicants out. This one is on the public register as being for them.

What a Community Services Board Brings to Recovery Housing

Piedmont Community Services is a public agency, not a private operator. It was established in 1972, covers the city of Martinsville and Henry, Franklin and Patrick counties, and runs mental health services, developmental disability services, prevention programs and substance use treatment out of about thirty facilities. For someone with a dual diagnosis, that breadth is the practical advantage: the psychiatric side and the substance use side of their care sit inside one organization, and the recovery residence sits inside it too.

Level 2 Certification and the Limits of This Recovery Residence

Level of Support 2 describes monitored housing: written structure, peer accountability, clinical care from outside the building. Nobody provides medical supervision on site. Applicants who need clinical staffing overnight are looking at a different level of care, and the register is explicit enough that the mismatch is visible before an application goes in. Virginia's Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services publishes the level for every certified residence in the Commonwealth for exactly that reason.

Recovery Homes at the Northern End of Starling Avenue

At 214, this house sits well up Starling Avenue from the agency's other three residences at 813, 817 and 822. All four are separately certified and none shares an address. The distance is short enough that a resident moving between them stays in the same city with the same providers, and long enough that the four households are genuinely separate neighborhoods of a small city.

Martinsville, Henry County and Region 3 Sober Living

Martinsville is one of Virginia's independent cities, which means it belongs to no county and Henry County wraps around it without governing it. The city carries the courthouse, the hospital, the community college and the largest share of the area's employment, and US 220 runs north from it toward Roanoke and south into North Carolina. Certified recovery housing across Region 3 is spread thin over a lot of rural ground, so a resident from Patrick County, Franklin County or the Henry County countryside is often looking at Martinsville as the nearest certified address with a bus stop and a job market attached.