Next Journey - Minnesota - Women's Women's Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

Next Journey - Minnesota - Women's is a women's recovery residence on Minnesota Avenue in Norfolk, Virginia, an independent city in Hampton Roads that sits inside no county. Next Journey VA operates it, and the state register lists it as certified at Level of Support 2 in DBHDS Region 5.

A Women's Recovery Home in the Norview Area

Minnesota Avenue runs through the Norview side of Norfolk, in the residential blocks between the airport corridor and the older neighborhoods to the south. It is a working part of the city, close to bus routes and to the retail and warehouse employers along Military Highway. The house serves women, and it is one of two women's residences this operator runs in Norfolk, which matters when a bed opens in one and not the other.

Certified Sober Living Under Virginia's Mandatory Rules

Virginia is one of a handful of states where recovery residence certification is compulsory. State law makes uncertified operation a Class 1 misdemeanor, and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services publishes the register of certified residences month by month. This address is on it, accredited through VARR at Level of Support 2. Certification binds the house to a code of ethics, to written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, to a written relapse and discharge policy, and to a complaint process that reaches past the household.

What Level 2 Sober Living Asks of a Resident

The Monitored tier is peer-based housing with structure. Residents are expected to stay sober, follow written house rules, attend house meetings and be occupied during the day with work, school or treatment. Clinical care comes from outside providers, and residents keep their own prescribers and therapists. Someone who needs supervision on site belongs in a higher level of care. Someone who has finished detox or residential treatment and needs an address with rules is the person this level was designed for.

Women's Recovery Housing in Norfolk, Virginia

Women in early recovery in Hampton Roads face a thinner housing market than men do, and a certified women's house in Norfolk is a short list item across the whole region. The city supplies the rest of what a resident needs: outpatient providers, the Norfolk Community Services Board, the circuit and general district courts, and a transit network that reaches Naval Station Norfolk, the medical campuses and the retail corridors. Region 5 covers Hampton Roads, and Norfolk holds the largest share of its certified recovery housing.