MySpace House - 1016 West 36th Street Women's Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

MySpace House - 1016 West 36th Street is a women's sober house in Norfolk, Virginia, in the independent city's Riverview neighborhood and inside DBHDS Region 5. It carries VARR certification at Level of Support 2 and is run by Myspace Norfolk LLC.

A Women's Sober House Off Hampton Boulevard

The residence takes women only. In practice that settles the household: one set of bathrooms, one set of house meetings, and rules written for a single population instead of adapted to a mixed one. The address is in the older residential grid between Hampton Boulevard and the Elizabeth River, close to Old Dominion University, and it is walkable to a grocery store, a bus stop and the retail employment along Hampton Boulevard.

Monitored Recovery Housing at Level 2

Certification runs through the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences, and the state register records this residence at Level of Support 2, which VARR names Monitored. A Level 2 house is peer-managed with written structure and no clinical services delivered on site. Residents keep their own prescribers, counselors and meetings, and the house supplies the address, the accountability and the schedule. That division is the point of the level system: it tells an applicant what the house does before they ask.

A Second Certified Sober Living Home Across the Street

Myspace Norfolk runs a second women's residence at 1021 West 36th Street, on the opposite side of the same block, and both hold their own certification on the state register. Two separately listed women's houses facing each other is unusual, and it gives the operator room to move somebody without moving her out of the neighborhood. Bed availability in Norfolk recovery housing turns over quickly, so a second address under the same management is a real advantage during an application.

Why a Certified Sober House Is the Only Legal Kind in Virginia

The Commonwealth criminalized uncertified operation under Va. Code section 37.2-431.1. Certification through VARR is one of only two recognized routes to compliance, and it obliges written disclosure of fees and rules, a code of ethics, a relapse and discharge policy on paper, and a complaint process outside the house. For a woman comparing houses from inside treatment, the register entry is the fastest way to separate a certified residence from a landlord renting beds.

Norfolk Recovery Housing for the Hampton Roads Region

Norfolk anchors DBHDS Region 5 and holds the region's hospitals, its largest transit network and its biggest concentration of entry-level jobs. Because the city is independent, everything from the courts to the health department sits under one municipal government inside the same city line. Women arriving from smaller places in South Hampton Roads or from the Eastern Shore usually find that Norfolk is the nearest address within reach of work, an outpatient provider and a court obligation at the same time.