Anchor Homes – Prep Coed Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Anchor Homes Prep is a coed recovery residence on Fayette Pike in Montgomery, West Virginia, in Kanawha County. It holds fifty-four beds at Level 4 certification from the West Virginia Alliance of Recovery Residences and charges residents nothing.

A No-Cost Sober Living Program in Montgomery

Fifty-four beds and no fee makes this one of the largest free recovery housing programs in West Virginia. Cost is the reason a great many people leaving treatment in this state end up somewhere unsafe, and a certified program that removes it entirely reaches a population that priced-out housing cannot. Men and women are both admitted.

What Level 4 Certification Establishes

Level 4 is the highest tier the West Virginia Alliance of Recovery Residences recognizes, describing service-provider housing with clinical or credentialed staff on site and a structured daily program. It sits at the opposite end of the scale from peer-run housing, and it is the level a resident coming directly out of inpatient treatment or an institution is usually placed into. Very few certified residences in the state hold it.

Medication-Assisted Recovery in This Kanawha County Recovery Home

Sublocade, Vivitrol, Brixadi and Suboxone are all accepted. In a high-support program of this size, accepting the full range of medication for opioid use disorder means the intake door stays open to people whose treatment is already working.

Montgomery and the Upper Kanawha Valley

Montgomery sits at the head of the Kanawha Valley where Kanawha and Fayette counties meet, on the river and the old US 60 route between Charleston and Beckley. It was a college town for most of a century and retains the building stock and the campus footprint from that period, which is part of why a fifty-four bed program can operate there at all. Charleston, the county seat and the state capital, is about thirty miles downriver.

Where Prep Sits in the Anchor Homes Recovery Housing System

Anchor Homes runs nine certified residences, and this is the entry point for people who need the most support and can pay the least. A resident who completes Prep moves into the operator's Level 2 housing at the standard monthly rate, either at the long-term men's residence on the same road or at one of the houses down the valley in Belle, Dunbar, Saint Albans or Charleston.