About this Recovery Home
Oliver House is a coed sober house at 1809 West Moore Street in Richmond, Virginia, an independent city that belongs to no county and sits inside DBHDS Region 4. Virginia Family Services operates it, and the state register carries it as a certified recovery residence at Level of Support 2.
A Coed Sober House on West Moore Street
West Moore Street runs through the near west side of Richmond a few blocks off the West Broad Street corridor, in the 23220 ZIP code. Nine more of the operator's residences stand on the same street, most of them in the 1800 and 2000 blocks, so a resident here lives inside a small cluster of houses that share one set of expectations. The household is coed, which shapes the practical questions first: bedrooms, common space and house meetings are shared across men and women, and one set of rules covers everybody living at the address.
What Level 2 Certification Establishes for This Recovery Residence
Virginia is one of the few states where certification is not optional. State law makes it a misdemeanor to operate an uncertified recovery residence, and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services publishes the register that proves a house has met the standard. Certification through the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences binds a residence to a published code of ethics, to written disclosure of fees and house rules before anyone moves in, to a written relapse and discharge policy, and to a complaint process that reaches past the house itself. Level of Support 2, which VARR calls Monitored, describes the model here: peer-based housing with house rules and a manager role, with clinical care delivered elsewhere.
Recovery Housing With Treatment Services Attached
Most sober living operators send residents out for clinical care. This one runs it. Virginia Family Services has provided Addiction Recovery Treatment Services and mental health care in Richmond since 2012, holds CARF accreditation, and belongs to the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers. Medicaid and the major commercial plans are accepted on the treatment side. For someone leaving detox with no housing and no outpatient appointment, that means the assessment and the bed sit inside one organization.
Who This Richmond Recovery Home Accepts
The register names the populations the house is set up to serve: women, men, LGBTQIA+ residents, veterans, pregnant women, and people managing a mental health diagnosis alongside a substance use disorder. That last group is the reason the treatment side matters. A resident with co-occurring conditions needs a prescriber and a therapist, and a house attached to an outpatient provider can keep both inside walking distance of the bed.
Sober Living in Richmond, Virginia's Capital
Richmond concentrates what someone rebuilding a routine needs. The city courts, the state agencies, Richmond Behavioral Health Authority as the local community services board, and the VCU Health system all sit within its limits, and GRTC's Pulse bus rapid transit runs the Broad Street corridor a short walk from the house. Entry-level work in food service, warehousing and healthcare support turns over constantly here, which is why Region 4 holds the largest concentration of certified recovery housing in Virginia.
