About this Recovery Home
Broad Oaks is a certified women's sober living home on Broad Oaks Court in Midlothian, Virginia, in Chesterfield County. It is operated by Tri-Hope and appears on Virginia's register of certified recovery residences at Level of Support 2, accredited through VARR.
A Women's Sober House in Midlothian
Women live here, in a single-family house on a residential court in one of Chesterfield County's established suburban neighborhoods. The setting is the point. A cul-de-sac in Midlothian is quiet, it looks like every other house on the street, and a resident's address does not announce anything about her to a neighbor or an employer. Bedrooms are shared, the household runs on one set of expectations, and the population is one gender throughout.
What Certification Requires of a Virginia Sober House
Certification is the most checkable fact on this listing, and in Virginia it is also compulsory. State law makes operating an uncertified recovery residence a Class 1 misdemeanor, and the state recognizes two credentialing bodies, the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences and Oxford House. A certified house has committed in writing to a code of ethics, to disclosing its fees and house rules before a resident signs anything, to a written policy covering relapse and discharge, and to a complaint process that runs outside the household. Certification says nothing about whether a particular house suits a particular person. It does create a record, and a record is the one thing a woman comparing houses can check for herself.
Level of Support 2 in a Monitored Recovery Home
Virginia publishes a level of support for every certified residence, and Broad Oaks holds Level 2. VARR calls that tier monitored, and it describes the model exactly: peer housing with a manager, house rules that carry consequences, drug testing, and clinical care from providers outside the house. A woman who has completed detox or residential treatment and needs a stable year fits this level. Anyone who needs clinical supervision through the day needs a higher level of care.
Women's Recovery Housing in Chesterfield County
Chesterfield County is the largest suburban county in the Richmond region, and Midlothian is one of its main residential centers. Bon Secours St. Francis Medical Center is here. The county's circuit and general district courts sit at Chesterfield Court House, the county seat, and the Chesterfield Community Services Board provides the county's public behavioral health services. Fixed-route transit is thin across most of the county, so a resident should plan around a car, a ride from a housemate or a commute built on the corridors where service does run.
What to Ask Before Moving Into This Sober Living Home
Applications go to Tri-Hope, which operates three certified houses in Midlothian. The questions worth asking are the ones certification obliges an answer to: what the weekly fee covers and what it does not, whether a manager lives in the house, how bedrooms are assigned, what happens after a relapse, and whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted. A certified residence has to put the fees and the rules in writing before anyone moves in.
