The Evolution Network House 2 Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

The Evolution Network House 2 is a certified sober living home on Williamsburg Road in Sandston, Virginia, in Henrico County. The county seat is Richmond, an independent city that is not itself part of Henrico County, which is one of the geographic quirks a person searching for recovery housing in this part of the state runs into. My Brother My Sister Foundation operates the house, and the state register of recovery residences lists it.

A Sandston Sober House on Williamsburg Road

Williamsburg Road is US Route 60, the old highway east out of Richmond, and Sandston grew up along it. The address puts a resident in a small Henrico County community with its own post office, schools and commercial strip. It is a settled residential place with a main street, which is a different setting from the city addresses the rest of this operator's portfolio occupies, and it suits someone who does better away from the streets he used in.

Transit and Work in Eastern Henrico County

Richmond International Airport is a few miles from this address, and the airport, the freight terminals and the warehouses clustered around it are among the most reliable entry-level employers in the eastern half of the county. Shift work at that scale hires without a long resume and runs at hours that fit around treatment appointments. GRTC Transit System extends service east along the Route 60 corridor, so the trip into Richmond for outpatient care or a court date does not require a car. For a suburban recovery residence, that combination of nearby work and a route into the city is unusual, and it is the practical case for a Sandston address over a Richmond one.

Who This Henrico County Sober Living Home Serves

The register describes the residents as adults 18 to 65 seeking sober living. The model is peer housing: no clinical program on site, treatment and medication with outside providers, and the residence responsible for the household and the address. Someone who needs supervision by medical staff in the building is looking for a different level of care.

Recovery Housing in Henrico County and Region 4

Henrico County wraps around Richmond on three sides and carries a large share of Region 4's population, but its recovery housing is thinner than the city's and more spread out. Sandston sits at the eastern end, closer to New Kent and Charles City than to the county's western suburbs. For a resident, the county line has real consequences: Henrico runs its own community services board and its own general district docket, so obligations that follow a person out of treatment are administered locally.

Three Evolution Network Sober Homes, One Operator

This is the second of three houses under The Evolution Network name. The others are on Montrose Avenue and 1st Street in Richmond, and all of them sit within a wider group of nine residences My Brother My Sister Foundation operates. Applying to the operator widens the search beyond a single address, and it means a resident who later needs a house closer to the city can raise it with people who already know him. Every one of the nine is on the Commonwealth's register of certified recovery residences.