About this Recovery Home
Starfish Recovery & Wellness - 2072 Moore Street is a women's sober house in Richmond, Virginia, an independent city that belongs to no county and falls inside DBHDS Region 4. It is certified at Level of Support 2, the monitored tier.
A Women's Sober Living Home on Moore Street
Moore Street sits in the 23220 ZIP, west of downtown and close to Virginia Commonwealth University. For a resident that location does real work: the university, VCU Health, the downtown courts and the Broad Street transit corridor are all within a short distance, so classes, appointments and shifts can be reached on foot or on one bus. The residence serves women at the monitored level.
What Monitored Certification Establishes for This Recovery Residence
Level of Support 2 is monitored in VARR's framework: written rules, a house leader accountable for the residence, drug screening, house meetings, and clinical care from outside providers. The operator adds that residents are overseen by a trained recovery and wellness peer and are subject to drug testing and curfews, and that its residences keep monitored entrances and exits. Certification obliges a code of ethics, written fee and rule disclosure before move-in, a relapse and discharge policy on paper, and a grievance process outside the house.
A Trauma-Informed Women's Sober House
Starfish Recovery & Wellness describes itself as trauma-informed and builds its programming around root causes as well as substance use. That framing matters most in women's recovery housing, where a large share of residents arrive with histories that make an unstructured, mixed household a poor place to start. Programming runs five days a week across wellness, clinical and mutual-aid sessions, with individualized recovery plans tracked through structured assessments.
The Path Through an Intensive and Step-Down Program
The intensive phase typically lasts twenty-eight days to six months and is built around each resident's own strengths and barriers. Residents who sustain engagement and abstinence step down to a phase where they work or attend school while staying in the residence. The step-down phase also accepts women coming from inpatient treatment or transferring in after a higher level of care. Same-day admission is possible when a bed is open.
Family Support Alongside Women's Recovery Housing
The organization was co-founded by someone who supported a partner through addiction, and it maintains family programming and a family resource guide alongside the residential program. Its stated position on getting a reluctant person into care is that kindness, positive reinforcement and motivational strategies work where ultimatums do not, which is the same evidence base behind CRAFT. For families in central Virginia weighing a certified women's residence, that orientation is part of what they are choosing.
Certified Recovery Homes in Richmond, Virginia
Certification is mandatory in Virginia and the state recognizes two credentialing bodies, so the public register is the whole regulatory record for a sober house here. Virginia's Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services publishes it with an address, an operator and a level for each residence, and it places Richmond in Region 4, the densest recovery housing region in the Commonwealth.
