About this Recovery Home
Troy House is a men's recovery home on Red Sun Way in Providence Forge, Virginia, in New Kent County, whose county seat is New Kent. The Troy Howlett Foundation operates it, and the Virginia state register lists it as certified.
A Men's Recovery Home on Red Sun Way
The house serves men. Red Sun Way is a residential street in Providence Forge, the small community strung along Route 60 in western New Kent County, halfway between Richmond and Williamsburg. This is rural country: farmland, pine, the Chickahominy River to the north, and small subdivisions off the highway. For a man in early recovery the setting cuts two ways at once. It puts real distance between him and the neighborhood attached to his using, and it makes transportation the first problem to solve, because nothing here is walkable and there is no transit.
Certification Under DBHDS
Virginia requires certification of every recovery residence in the state. Va. Code section 37.2-431.1, implemented through 12VAC35-260, makes running an uncertified one a Class 1 misdemeanor, and the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services recognizes two credentialing bodies able to issue certification, the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences and Oxford House, Inc. Reaching the register means the operator's policies and procedures have gone to a credentialing body, so written house rules, a written fee disclosure and a written relapse and discharge policy exist and sit with an outside reviewer. In a county this rural, where a resident cannot walk to a second option, that paperwork is most of the protection available.
A Foundation-Run Men's Sober House
The operator is a foundation, which is a different footing from a private landlord or a single-member company. A foundation exists to carry out a stated purpose, it is answerable for how it uses what it raises, and its housing is usually part of a broader commitment and not a rental business. Foundations of this kind are frequently established in memory of someone lost to addiction, and the houses they run tend to reflect that origin in how they treat residents who relapse. For a family evaluating a placement, the useful question is what the foundation's mission actually commits it to and how the house reflects it.
Recovery Housing in New Kent County
New Kent County is one of the smaller counties in central Virginia, with roughly twenty-five thousand residents spread between Providence Forge, Quinton and the county seat at New Kent. Route 60 and Interstate 64 both cross it, which is what makes the location workable: Richmond is about thirty minutes west and Williamsburg about the same distance east, so a resident with a ride or a car reaches two separate metropolitan service networks. The county's own courts and administration sit at New Kent, and behavioral health services for this area come from the regional community services board, with nothing of the kind inside Providence Forge. Recovery housing in the county is close to nonexistent, so a certified men's house here fills a genuine gap in the corridor between Richmond and the Historic Triangle.
Questions to Ask This Providence Forge Sober Living Operator
Applications go directly to the Troy Howlett Foundation. Because the house is certified, its core documents already exist and have been submitted, so ask for them: the fee schedule and what it covers, the house rules, the relapse and discharge policy, and whether medication for opioid use disorder is accepted. Given the location, ask two more questions that decide whether the placement is viable at all: how residents get to work, meetings and appointments, and whether the house arranges or shares transportation.
