Monroe House Coed Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

Monroe House is a coed sober living home at 2065 W. Moore Street #2 in Richmond, Virginia, an independent city that belongs to no county and lies in DBHDS Region 4. It is certified at Level of Support 2 and operated by Virginia Family Services.

A Coed Recovery Home for Co-Occurring Conditions

The register names people with co-occurring disorders among the populations this house serves. Somewhere between a third and a half of everyone entering recovery housing carries a mental health diagnosis alongside a substance use disorder, and the housing usually cannot help with it. Here the operator runs its own mental health services, so a resident's therapist, prescriber and house manager work for the same organization. Medication schedules, therapy hours and house expectations get coordinated instead of colliding.

What Monitored Sober Living Looks Like at This Address

Level of Support 2 in Virginia means a peer-based household with written rules and a manager who answers for the property. Residents are expected to stay sober, attend house meetings and hold down work, school or a treatment schedule during the day. The house does not provide clinical supervision on site. That boundary is the whole point of the level, and it is why the state publishes it: a resident can tell from the register row what kind of household this is before making a call.

A Certified Recovery Residence in a Mandatory-Certification State

Virginia does not leave certification to the market. State law makes operating an uncertified recovery residence a criminal offense, and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services publishes the register that shows which addresses have met the standard. This one is accredited through the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences. Certification obliges the house to disclose fees and rules in writing, to keep a written relapse policy, and to accept complaint review from outside the household.

Recovery Housing Backed by a CARF-Accredited Provider

Virginia Family Services has worked in Richmond since 2012, holds CARF accreditation for its treatment programs, and belongs to the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers. It bills Medicaid and commercial insurance for Addiction Recovery Treatment Services and mental health care. Housing applications go through the same organization, which means one intake covers the assessment and the bed.

Sober Living Near the Broad Street Corridor

The 2000 block of West Moore Street lies a few blocks north of West Broad Street on Richmond's near west side. GRTC's Pulse bus rapid transit runs that corridor, connecting the neighborhood to downtown, the state office district and the VCU Health campuses. Richmond Behavioral Health Authority, the city's community services board, and the region's outpatient providers are all reachable on that line, which is what makes a car optional in the first months here.