Anchor Homes - Dunbar Men's House Men's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Anchor Homes is a men's sober living home on Lightner Avenue in Dunbar, West Virginia, in Kanawha County. Seventeen men live here at $400 a month, and the residence carries Level 2 certification from the West Virginia Alliance of Recovery Residences.

A Seventeen-Bed Men's Sober House in Dunbar

Dunbar sits directly across the Kanawha River from South Charleston, five miles west of the capital, and it is one of the denser small cities in the valley. Seventeen beds makes this one of the larger men's recovery homes in the county. Lightner Avenue runs through the residential grid north of the Dunbar business district, close to the Route 25 corridor into Charleston.

What Certification Means for This Kanawha County Recovery Home

Level 2 certification from the state alliance of recovery residences puts this house inside a published code of ethics with a complaint process that does not run through the operator. It requires the residence to give an applicant its fees and rules in writing before move-in and to hold a written policy covering relapse and discharge. Since 2024, West Virginia law has made certification the condition for receiving state funds and referrals, which raises the stakes on holding it.

Medication-Assisted Recovery in This Dunbar Sober Living Home

Sublocade, Vivitrol, Brixadi and Suboxone are accepted, the full range the operator supports. For a man arriving from an inpatient program already stabilized on buprenorphine, that policy is what makes the bed usable.

Dunbar and the Kanawha Valley Employment Corridor

Dunbar, South Charleston and Institute form the industrial band immediately west of Charleston, and it is where a large share of the valley's entry-level and shift work sits. Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation runs the corridor into the capital, where the county courthouse, the family court and most outpatient providers are. Being inside that band.