About this Recovery Home
Atlantic Outreach Group - Montague is a women's sober living home on Montague Street in Richmond, Virginia, an independent city that belongs to no county and falls inside DBHDS Region 4. It is certified at Level of Support 2, the monitored tier.
A Women's Sober House in Southwest Richmond
Montague Street lies in the 23225 ZIP, south of the James River in the city's southwest quadrant. The residence serves women at the monitored level. Most of the operator's inventory is north of the river, so this house serves women whose work, family or children's schools sit on the south side and who would lose more than they gained by crossing the city.
What Monitored Certification Means Here
Level of Support 2 is monitored in VARR's framework: written house rules, a house leader accountable for the residence, drug screening, house meetings, and clinical care from outside providers. Certification adds a published code of ethics, fees and rules disclosed in writing before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint process that reaches past the household.
South of the River: Recovery Housing Beyond the Northside Cluster
Certified recovery housing in this region concentrates north of the James, so the southern quadrants have thinner coverage. A certified women's house in the 23225 ZIP fills a genuine gap. Residents are near the Midlothian Turnpike and Broad Rock corridors for work, and one bus reaches downtown, the courts and the outpatient providers on the north bank.
Women's Recovery Homes in the Atlantic Outreach Group Network
Fifteen of the operator's thirty-six certified residences serve women, six of them monitored and nine supervised. It has run in Richmond since 2010 and pairs housing with case management, peer support, life skills training, a food pantry and a graduate program, Prevention+, for people who finish the structured phase and want the housing to continue.
Questions to Ask This Richmond Sober House
Applications go through the operator. Ask what the weekly fee covers, what the deposit is and how it comes back, how many women share the house, who the house leader is and when she is present, how the house handles a relapse, whether children can visit, and whether residents on prescribed medication for opioid use disorder are accepted. A certified residence has to put the fee and rules answers in writing before anyone signs.
