About this Recovery Home
917 Outreach - Bareback Terrace is a men's recovery residence in North Chesterfield, Virginia, a Chesterfield County postal community south of the city of Richmond. It is operated by 917 Outreach, LLC and is certified on the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services register of recovery residences.
A Men's Sober House on Bareback Terrace
This sober house serves men in recovery, and that one restriction answers a surprising number of practical questions before anyone asks them. Bathrooms, house meetings and shared living space are single-gender. One set of expectations covers everyone under the roof. Bareback Terrace sits in a residential pocket of Chesterfield County inside the Richmond metropolitan area, close enough to the city for work, meetings and appointments to be reachable, far enough out that the street itself is quiet.
What Certification Means for a Recovery Residence in Virginia
Virginia is one of the few states where certification is not optional. Under Va. Code section 37.2-431.1 and the regulations at 12VAC35-260, operating an uncertified recovery residence is a Class 1 misdemeanor, and the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services recognizes exactly two credentialing bodies for the purpose, the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences and Oxford House, Inc. Certification is not a logo. It means written house rules, a written fee disclosure and a written relapse and discharge policy exist and have been read by somebody outside the house before anyone moves in. The department publishes the residences that hold it, this one among them, so a family calling from another state can confirm the listing instead of taking the operator's word for it.
Single-Gender Recovery Housing and What It Settles
Men living here share the house with other men in early recovery, which is the part of sober living that no program schedule can replicate. Accountability runs sideways, between housemates, during the hours nobody is supervising anyone. A men's recovery home also simplifies the first conversation for a family calling from out of state: they are not weighing a mixed building, a shared bathroom arrangement or a second set of rules.
Recovery Housing in Chesterfield County
Chesterfield County wraps around Richmond's southern edge and holds more than three hundred thousand residents, with its courts and county offices at Chesterfield Court House. North Chesterfield is the postal name for the county's densely built northern band along the Richmond line, and it puts a resident within reach of two service networks at once. Chesterfield County's own behavioral health and substance use programs sit inside the county, and Richmond's larger concentration of outpatient providers, employers and recovery meetings begins a few minutes north. For someone leaving treatment in the Richmond region and looking for recovery housing that keeps a job and a treatment appointment in the same day, that overlap is the reason this side of the river fills first.
Questions to Ask This North Chesterfield Sober Living Operator
Applications go directly to 917 Outreach, LLC. A certified house has already put its core documents in front of a credentialing body, so the useful questions are the ones those documents answer: what the weekly fee covers and what it does not, whether a house manager lives on site, how bedrooms are assigned, what happens after a relapse, whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted, and how a resident escalates a complaint past the house. Ask for the fee schedule and the house rules in writing before a deposit changes hands.
