Recovery Group of Southern West Virginia / Marjorie Oakley Home for Women Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

The Marjorie Oakley Home for Women is a women's recovery residence on Main Street in Logan, West Virginia, the seat of Logan County. Sixteen women live here at $400 a month under Level 3 certification from the West Virginia Alliance of Recovery Residences.

A Sixteen-Bed Women's Sober House in the Coalfields

Sixteen certified beds for women in Logan County, in a region where the usual answer is none. Logan sits on the Guyandotte River in the heart of the southern coalfields, and women leaving treatment here have historically had to relocate to Charleston or Huntington to find certified housing, leaving family, children and court obligations behind. Main Street runs through the center of town by the county courthouse.

What Level 3 Certification Establishes

Level 3 in West Virginia's framework describes supervised recovery housing with administrative oversight and structured programming, above peer-run and monitored housing and below clinically staffed residences. The certification requires published rules disclosed in writing before entry, a written relapse and discharge policy, and complaints reviewed outside the program's own management. Level 3 housing is scarce outside the state's cities, which makes its presence here the substantive fact on this listing.

What It Costs

A $100 intake fee at admission and $400 a month due on the first of each month.

Medication-Assisted Recovery for Women in Logan County

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

Logan, the County Seat and the Guyandotte Valley

Logan is the county seat, sitting where Island Creek meets the Guyandotte River on the Route 119 corridor between Charleston and Williamson. It holds the county courthouse, Logan Regional Medical Center and Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College. The county has lost most of its mining employment and carries overdose rates among the highest in the United States, which is the context for a supervised sixteen-bed women's program in a town this size.