About this Recovery Home
3rd Avenue Apartment B is a men's sober house at 1804 3rd Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, operated by Urban Recovery RVA. The city answers to no county and sits in state behavioral health Region 4. Unit B is certified at Level of Support 2 through the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences.
A Men's Sober Living Unit on 3rd Avenue
1804 3rd Avenue is a two-unit property on Richmond's Northside, in the 23222 ZIP code, and Unit B is the men's household. The men in it share their own kitchen, bathrooms and common space and answer to their own house agreement. A duplex arrangement gives the operator two smaller households instead of one large one, and small households tend to hold people accountable more directly, because nobody is anonymous in a house of that size.
Two Certified Recovery Residences at One Northside Address
Units A and B at this address are certified separately and serve different genders, with women in Unit A and men in Unit B. That is a real distinction and not a bookkeeping one. Each unit is its own residence on the state's list, each has its own certification, and a resident lives in a single-gender household even though the building holds both. Anyone applying should confirm which unit the application is for, because the two are governed as separate homes.
How Virginia Records This Sober House on Its State Register
Certification is compulsory in Virginia, and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services publishes what it certifies. Virginia's certified recovery residence register names the residence, its street address, the credentialing body behind it, the population it serves and its numeric level of support. For this unit those entries read VARR, men, and Level 2. A prospective resident or a referring case manager can check every one of them against what a house says about itself.
The Operator's Treatment Program Behind This Recovery Home
Urban Recovery RVA houses residents on behalf of River City Comprehensive Counseling Services, a licensed provider offering partial hospitalization, outpatient services and peer support, with workforce development and life skills training attached. Medication management is provided by another licensed provider. The housing and the clinical program are separate commitments inside one organization, so a resident can change treatment intensity without losing his bed.
Northside Richmond Recovery Housing
Richmond's Northside is residential, walkable in stretches, and served by GRTC routes that run down to Broad Street and the downtown core. From this address a resident reaches the city's courts, the state agencies, the VCU medical campus and the retail and logistics employers that hire people rebuilding a work history. Richmond Behavioral Health Authority provides publicly funded treatment and peer recovery services citywide. Nine certified Urban Recovery RVA residences sit inside the same city, which keeps a transfer between houses from becoming a move between towns.
