Atlantic Outreach Group - Annette Men's Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

Atlantic Outreach Group - Annette is a men's sober living home on Annette Drive in Sandston, Virginia, an unincorporated community in eastern Henrico County. It is certified at Level of Support 2 on Virginia's register and is the only house this Richmond operator runs outside the city limits.

A Men's Sober House in Sandston, Henrico County

Annette Drive sits in the 23150 ZIP, east of Richmond along the US 60 corridor and near the Interstate 64 and 295 interchange. Sandston is best known as the location of Richmond International Airport, and the airport, the warehouses and the light industry around it are within a short drive of the house. The residence serves men. For someone whose work is on that side of the metropolitan area, living in Sandston removes a long daily commute that a car-free resident cannot easily make.

Henrico County Recovery Housing and Its County Seat

Henrico County wraps around Richmond on three sides, and its county seat is the independent city of Richmond, which is not itself part of the county. That arrangement is common in Virginia and it matters practically: Henrico residents use county services and county courts headquartered at the government center on Parham Road, while the regional hospitals, the state agencies and much of the treatment capacity sit inside the neighboring city. DBHDS places both in Region 4.

What Level 2 Certification Means for This Recovery Residence

Monitored is the name VARR gives Level of Support 2: written house rules, a house leader accountable for the residence, drug screening, house meetings, and clinical care from outside providers. Certification commits the house to a code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a relapse and discharge policy on paper, and an external complaint process. Virginia requires the credential of every recovery residence in the Commonwealth.

A Suburban Sober Living Home Inside a City Operator's Network

Atlantic Outreach Group runs thirty-five certified residences in Richmond and this one in Sandston. A resident here belongs to the same organization, the same fee structure and the same set of expectations as the men living on the Northside, and a transfer into the city is a conversation with staff who already know him. The distance is what makes this house useful: far enough from old neighborhoods to break a pattern, close enough that nothing else has to change.

Recovery Housing on the East Side of the Richmond Region

Certified recovery housing thins out quickly east of Richmond. Most of the region's inventory sits inside the city, so a certified men's residence in eastern Henrico County covers a gap for people working near the airport, living with family in eastern Henrico, or leaving a program in the region and hoping to avoid the neighborhoods they used in.