About this Recovery Home
Oak House is a coed sober living home at 917 West Leigh Street in Richmond, Virginia, an independent city that belongs to no county and lies inside DBHDS Region 4. Virginia Family Services operates it, and the state register carries it as certified at Level of Support 2.
The One Sober House Off West Moore Street
Ten of the operator's eleven residences sit on West Moore Street. This one does not. West Leigh Street runs through the Carver area north of West Broad Street, closer to VCU's Monroe Park campus and the edge of downtown than the rest of the portfolio. A resident who works or studies on that side of the city, or who wants a little distance from the cluster, has one address to choose and this is it.
A Coed Recovery Residence Near VCU and Downtown
The location does specific work. Virginia Commonwealth University, its health system campuses, the state office district and the John Marshall courthouse are all within a short walk or a single bus ride. Someone with a court date, a Medicaid appointment and a class in the same week can manage all three on foot and by bus. Carver is a dense residential neighborhood with corner businesses and a park, and the household here is coed, with the register naming women, men, LGBTQIA+ residents, veterans, pregnant women and people with co-occurring disorders.
What Virginia Certification Obliges This Recovery Home to Do
Recovery residences in Virginia must be certified, and this address is accredited through the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences. The obligations are practical: publish a code of ethics, disclose fees and house rules in writing before anyone moves in, keep a written policy for relapse and discharge, and answer to complaints reviewed outside the house. Level of Support 2, the Monitored tier, describes the household itself, peer-based with a manager and written expectations, with clinical care delivered elsewhere.
Sober Living With Treatment From the Same Organization
Virginia Family Services has provided Addiction Recovery Treatment Services and mental health care in Richmond since 2012, under CARF accreditation and NAATP membership, and accepts Medicaid along with the major commercial plans. Housing runs through the same intake. For a resident leaving detox with no provider lined up, that removes the step where most placements fall apart.
Recovery Housing in Richmond, Virginia
Richmond is the state capital and an independent city, so everything a resident has to deal with sits in one jurisdiction: the circuit and general district courts, Richmond Behavioral Health Authority as the local community services board, the VA health care system, and the outpatient providers clustered near the medical campuses. Region 4 holds more certified recovery housing than any other part of Virginia, and the Broad Street corridor a block south of this house is its transit spine.
