West Virginia Sober Living - Charleston Women's House Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

West Virginia Sober Living is a recovery residence for women and children in Charleston, West Virginia, in Kanawha County. Eleven beds are certified at Level 2 by the West Virginia Alliance of Recovery Residences, at $575 a month with Recovery Housing Program voucher eligibility.

A Sober Living Home That Takes Women With Their Children

This is the distinguishing fact on the listing. West Virginia has a small number of certified recovery residences that house women together with their children, and the shortage forces an impossible choice on mothers leaving treatment: enter recovery housing without the children or keep the children in housing that is not drug free. A certified eleven-bed residence in the state capital that takes both removes that choice. The address is not published and placement runs through the operator.

Level 2 Certification and Family Recovery Housing

Level 2 describes monitored recovery housing with structured expectations and outside clinical care. Certification requires written disclosure of fees and house rules before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, a published code of ethics, and complaints reviewed outside the house. In a residence where children are present, an external complaint route matters more than it does anywhere else.

Vouchers and the Cost of a Bed

New residents meeting federal low-income guidelines can cover their first forty-five days with a Recovery Housing Program voucher applied for after admission. The fee afterward is $575 a month, the same across all seven of the operator's residences.

Medication-Assisted Recovery for Mothers in Kanawha County

Medication for opioid use disorder is accepted. Women on buprenorphine or methadone who are also parenting face the narrowest housing options of anyone in the state, and a residence that accommodates both the medication and the children closes a gap that very little else in West Virginia covers.

Charleston Recovery Homes and Family Court

Charleston is the seat of Kanawha County and the state capital, holding the county courthouse, the family court, Charleston Area Medical Center and the valley transit network. For a mother working through a custody or abuse and neglect case, being in the same city as the family court and the caseworkers is not a convenience. It determines whether appointments get kept.