About this Recovery Home
MySpace Norfolk Shafer is a certified recovery residence on Shafer Street in Norfolk, Virginia, in the northern half of the independent city and inside DBHDS Region 5. The state register records it as an adult residence at VARR Level of Support 2, operated by Myspace Norfolk LLC.
An Adult Recovery Residence in Northern Norfolk
Shafer Street sits in the Norview and Wards Corner part of the city, a settled residential area of postwar single-family homes north of the Norfolk International Airport approach. The register lists the population served as adults instead of a single gender, so anyone applying should ask the operator directly who currently lives there. It is the practical question, and certification requires the house to answer it in writing.
Level 2 Monitored Sober Living and What It Excludes
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. Monitored housing means written structure, peer accountability and a schedule, with therapy, prescribing and any clinical monitoring handled by outside providers. The house is housing. Understanding that before move-in prevents the most common mismatch in recovery housing, where someone who needed a clinical setting lands in a peer-run one.
Virginia's Register and This Certified Sober House
Virginia publishes its certified recovery residences per address through the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, along with the credentialing body and the level of support for each. Two bodies are recognized statewide, and operating outside them is a criminal offense under Va. Code section 37.2-431.1. For a resident or a family member, the register turns a claim on a website into something checkable in one place.
Norview, Wards Corner and Norfolk Recovery Housing
Northern Norfolk is where the city's shopping centers, medical offices and mid-size employers cluster outside downtown. Wards Corner has been a commercial crossroads for seventy years, and the Military Highway and Little Creek Road corridors carry frequent Hampton Roads Transit service toward downtown and the Naval Station. Because Norfolk is an independent city, there is no county government layered above it, so the courts, the health department and the social services office a resident may need all sit inside the same municipal boundary.
Applying to a Myspace Norfolk Sober Living Home
Admissions run through the operator for all eight of its certified addresses. The questions to put on the table are the ones certification obliges an answer to: the weekly fee and what it covers, deposit terms, whether a manager lives on site, how the house handles a relapse, and whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted. Ask about the current household makeup here as well, since the register does not fix it to one gender.
