Washington House Coed Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

Washington House is a coed sober house at 2065 W. Moore Street Unit #1 in Richmond, Virginia, an independent city that belongs to no county and falls inside DBHDS Region 4. It is a certified recovery residence at Level of Support 2, operated by Virginia Family Services.

A Coed Recovery Residence Serving Veterans

The state register names veterans among the populations this house serves, alongside women, men, LGBTQIA+ residents, pregnant women and people with co-occurring disorders. For a veteran, the location does real work. Richmond holds the Central Virginia VA Health Care System, and a house inside the city keeps VA appointments, benefits paperwork and peer support in the same place as the bed. A household that has housed veterans before also tends to understand why a resident might need to keep a service-connected treatment schedule that looks nothing like anyone else's.

What the DBHDS Register Confirms About This Sober House

The register entry is short and useful. The residence is certified, its accrediting body is VARR, and its Level of Support is 2. Certification in Virginia is mandatory and carries obligations a resident can hold the house to: fees and rules disclosed in writing before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, adherence to a code of ethics, and outside review of complaints. The state republishes the list of certified recovery residences monthly, so the status on any given address can be checked before an application goes in.

Monitored Sober Living and What It Asks of Residents

At Level 2 the household is peer-based with a manager responsible for the address. Residents are expected to stay sober, follow written house rules, attend house meetings and be occupied during the day. Treatment, when a resident needs it, comes from outside the house. In this case it can come from the same organization: Virginia Family Services provides Addiction Recovery Treatment Services and mental health care in the city and holds CARF accreditation for that work.

Recovery Housing in Richmond, Virginia

West Moore Street sits west of downtown, a short walk from the Broad Street corridor and the GRTC Pulse line that runs along it. That corridor connects the near west side to the medical campuses, the state office district and the courts. Richmond's job market in food service, logistics and healthcare support turns over often enough that a resident with thirty days of sobriety and a bus pass can find work, which is the practical test any sober living placement has to pass.