About this Recovery Home
Caritas Recovery Residences is a coed recovery residence on Stockton Street in Richmond, Virginia, an independent city inside DBHDS Region 4. It holds Level of Support 2 certification on the Virginia state register, accredited through VARR, and the register lists it as serving women, men, LGBT residents and people carrying a co-occurring mental health diagnosis.
A Coed Sober Living Residence on Stockton Street
Stockton Street sits in south Richmond, in the industrial and residential blocks below the James River near the Manchester district. The residence is coed, and the register's population list is unusually broad for Virginia recovery housing: men and women, LGBT residents, and people managing a mental health diagnosis alongside a substance use disorder. That breadth answers a real problem. A person who does not fit a single-gender men's house or a women's house often has nowhere to go, and a coed certified residence with an explicit co-occurring population is a short list in any city.
What It Costs to Live in This Richmond Recovery Home
CARITAS publishes its rates, which is rarer than it should be:
- A $350 move-in fee.
- $130 a week per bed in a shared room.
- $155 a week per bed in a single room in a two-bedroom unit.
- $185 a week per bed in a single room in a two-bedroom, two-bathroom unit.
Utilities are included, and residents can stay up to two years. Two years is the figure that changes the calculation. Most sober living is priced and structured around months, and a two-year ceiling gives someone time to finish a training program, clear a debt or complete a probation term from a stable address.
Who This Certified Recovery Residence Serves
The organization describes its residents as people transitioning from treatment, incarceration, homelessness or unstable living situations. Those four routes into recovery housing carry different needs, and a residence built for all of them is designed around instability itself. Someone leaving a shelter has different first-week problems from someone leaving a 28-day program, and a house that regularly takes both has processes for each.
What Level 2 Certification Requires of a Virginia Sober House
Level of Support 2 is the monitored tier of Virginia recovery housing: written house rules, screening, a manager holding defined authority, and clinical treatment delivered by outside providers. Certification through the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences is the credential behind that level, and it obliges a residence to a code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before anyone moves in, a documented relapse and discharge policy, and complaint review from outside the house. Virginia makes certification mandatory and enforces it as a criminal matter, so the register listing is a statement about legal standing.
Recovery Housing in Richmond and Region 4
Richmond is an independent city belonging to no county, which means the courts, jail, health district and behavioral health authority a resident deals with all sit inside one jurisdiction. Region 4 carries more certified recovery housing than any other part of the Commonwealth, and south Richmond is where much of the coed and mixed-population supply sits. GRTC bus service along the Hull Street and Midlothian corridors reaches downtown employment, the VCU Health campus and the social services offices, which is what makes an address here workable before a car is realistic. The state's register of certified residences is published by Virginia DBHDS.
