One Unique Recovery House, Inc Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

One Unique Recovery House, Inc. is a women's recovery residence on Hart Avenue in Buckhannon, West Virginia, in Upshur County. Eight women live here at $400 a month under Level 1 certification from the West Virginia Alliance of Recovery Residences.

A Women's Sober House in Central West Virginia

Eight beds makes this the larger of the operator's two houses and one of very few certified women's residences anywhere in the central mountain counties. Women leaving treatment in Upshur, Lewis, Barbour and Randolph counties have almost no local alternative. Hart Avenue runs through Buckhannon's residential streets close to the West Virginia Wesleyan campus.

What Level 1 Certification Means

Level 1 is the lightest of West Virginia's four tiers, describing peer-run recovery housing with minimal external oversight, where residents set and enforce the household expectations themselves and no on-site staffing is required. It suits a woman who is stable and working and no longer needs a monitored household, and it is an honest designation.

Fees, Utilities and Vouchers

The charge is $400 a month, published as covering program fees, utilities and internet. Beds are eligible for Recovery Housing Program vouchers, which cover the first forty-five days for new residents meeting federal low-income guidelines, so a woman arriving from treatment with nothing can enter and start paying once work is in place.

Medication Support for Women in Upshur County

Residents on medication for opioid use disorder are accepted at both of the operator's addresses.

Buckhannon and Recovery Housing in the Mountain Counties

Buckhannon is the seat of Upshur County, holding the courthouse, St. Joseph's Hospital and West Virginia Wesleyan College, on the corridors between Clarksburg, Weston and Elkins. Rural West Virginia rarely sustains certified recovery housing, and a women's house in a county seat this size serves a region far larger than its own population.