About this Recovery Home
Starfish Recovery & Wellness - 3116 1st Avenue is a men's sober living home in Richmond, Virginia, an independent city inside no county and part of DBHDS Region 4. It is certified at Level of Support 2, the monitored tier, on Virginia's register of recovery residences.
A Men's Sober House on 1st Avenue
The house sits on the 3100 block of 1st Avenue in the 23222 ZIP, in north Richmond. Several other certified residences stand further up the same avenue under a different operator, which makes this a street where certified recovery housing is unusually dense. This residence takes men and is certified as its own household at the monitored level.
The Starfish Method and How This Recovery Home Runs
The operator's model addresses five domains: emotional, mental, social, physical and educational. Mindfulness practice covers the first, coordinated clinical partnerships the second, group activity and CrossFit the third and fourth, and a recovery curriculum called WELLBEING, aligned with Virginia's Standards of Learning for Health, the fifth. A twelve-week employment readiness course runs with a national nonprofit partner. Residents pick their own recovery pathway, whether twelve-step, SMART Recovery, faith-based, Dharma Recovery or another recognized approach.
Monitored Sober Living, Curfews and Drug Testing
At the monitored level, house rules are written, a house leader answers for the residence, and residents carry their own clinical care and mutual-aid commitments. Starfish states that its residents are overseen by a trained recovery and wellness peer and are subject to drug testing and curfews, and that its residences have monitored entrances and exits. VARR certification also obliges a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a documented relapse and discharge policy, and a grievance process outside the house.
Medication, Detox and Clinical Care Around This Sober House
Detoxification is not provided on site. The operator partners with a clinical provider for same-day medically supervised detox, and it accepts residents with co-occurring mental health conditions alongside substance use disorder, coordinating care and referring to higher levels when needed. As a VARR-certified organization it does not accommodate marijuana use, including under a medical card. Health insurance is not accepted at present.
Men's Recovery Housing in Richmond and Beyond the Region
Richmond belongs to no county and holds the courts, the community services board, the hospital systems and the transit a resident needs inside one jurisdiction that DBHDS counts as Region 4. This operator's residents have come from across the country as well as from central Virginia, and it works with local courts on placements, so the household is generally a mix of people from the city and people who moved for the program.
