REAL LIFE - 1117 27th Street Women's Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

REAL LIFE - 1117 27th Street is a certified women's sober living home in Richmond, Virginia, on Church Hill in an independent city that sits within no county. The residence carries Level of Support 3 on the state register and stands next door to the operator's second women's house on the same block.

Two Women's Recovery Homes on One Block

REAL LIFE runs 1117 and 1119 27th Street as separate women's households on adjacent lots. The arrangement is unusual and it is useful. Two houses side by side let the operator match a resident to the household that fits her, keep the numbers in each home small, and move someone across the property line without moving her across the city. Both are women's homes, both are certified, and both run the same program.

What Level 3 Certification Commits This Sober House To

Virginia requires every recovery residence to be certified, and this one is accredited through the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences at Level of Support 3, which VARR names Supervised. The obligations are documented and checkable. Fees and house rules go to an applicant in writing before she signs. There is a written relapse and discharge policy. Staff oversee the household. A complaint can be taken to a body outside the house. In a state where uncertified operation is a criminal matter, being on the public register is the baseline, and the level tells a resident how much structure comes with it.

Women, Pregnancy and Reentry at This Recovery Residence

The register names women, pregnant women, people with co-occurring conditions and people reentering the community. REAL LIFE runs a motherhood program alongside the housing, which is the piece that makes the pregnant-women listing meaningful instead of decorative. Reentry is served through the organization's jail-based services, so a woman can start the curriculum before release and finish it at this address. Both paths lead into the same house schedule.

Forty Hours a Week in a Structured Sober Living Home

Residents work through roughly forty hours of programming a week, twenty-five classes and groups drawn from a 234-page curriculum REAL LIFE wrote and teaches with staff, peers and volunteers. Rules are read in depth and signed at move-in. A woman looking for a quiet room and no obligations will not want this house. A woman who needs her week rebuilt from the ground up will find few Richmond alternatives that go this far.

Church Hill Recovery Housing and the City Beyond It

Church Hill occupies the bluff east of downtown Richmond, with the city center, the courts and VCU Health minutes away by bus. All of it falls inside a single independent city, so a resident manages one court system, one health department and one transit network. For someone arriving from a smaller central Virginia town, that concentration is the practical reason to be here at all.