2610 3rd Avenue Men's Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

2610 3rd Avenue is a men's sober house in Richmond, Virginia, operated by Urban Recovery RVA. Richmond is an independent city outside any county, in state behavioral health Region 4, and this residence is certified at Level of Support 2 through the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences.

A Men's Sober House on 3rd Avenue

The house sits in the 23222 ZIP code on Richmond's Northside and takes men. It is named for its address, which is how the state register lists it, and it runs as one household under a single house agreement. The Northside is residential and bus-served, which is the combination that makes a sober living home usable for someone without a car.

Three Sober Living Addresses on One Street

Urban Recovery RVA certifies three residences on 3rd Avenue: this one and the two units at 1804, which house women and men separately. Clustering has practical consequences. The manager and staff who cover one house know the others. Expectations do not shift between them. A resident who needs a different household, for a personality reason or a schedule reason, can often move without leaving the neighborhood, the bus route or the outpatient provider he already sees.

Annual Accountability for a Certified Virginia Recovery Residence

Certification in Virginia is a legal requirement with a renewal cycle behind it, so a current listing carries current information. The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services publishes each certified address with its accrediting body, level of support and population served, and updates the file as certifications are granted, renewed or lost. Two bodies can accredit a residence in this state, VARR and Oxford House. A row on the state list is therefore a statement about the house as it stands now.

Level 2 Monitored Recovery Housing

The Monitored tier means a peer-run house with an identified manager, written rules and a curfew, documented admission and discharge terms, and clinical care from outside providers. Residents are expected to fill their days. Nobody is supervising medication or providing therapy in the building. For a man who has finished a treatment episode and needs an address that will not fall apart around him, this is the level the state's system is mostly built out of.

Northside Richmond Recovery Housing

Richmond holds the region's courts, state agencies, hospital systems and the largest concentration of entry-level employers in central Virginia. GRTC connects the Northside to Broad Street, downtown and the VCU Health campus. Richmond Behavioral Health Authority runs the city's publicly funded behavioral health and peer recovery services. Men leaving treatment in the surrounding counties often move into a Richmond recovery home for exactly this reason: everything a first year of recovery requires is inside one transit system.