Sound Mind for Women Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Sound Mind for Women is a women's recovery residence on Black Eagle Road in Mullens, West Virginia, in Wyoming County. Twelve women live here at sixty percent of income under Level 2 certification from the West Virginia Alliance of Recovery Residences.

A Women's Sober House in the Southern Coalfields

Twelve certified beds for women in Wyoming County, a place of about twenty thousand people with almost nothing else of the kind. The coalfield counties carry the highest overdose rates in the country and the thinnest recovery infrastructure, and for a woman from Mullens, Pineville or Oceana the realistic alternative is relocating an hour or more to Beckley. Black Eagle Road runs off the main corridor through Mullens on the Guyandotte River.

Fees Tied to Income

Residents pay sixty percent of what they earn, and the operator maintains beds whose cost can be covered by donations. A fixed rent is what ends most placements in a region where full-time wages sit well below the state average, and an income-based charge removes that failure point.

What Level 2 Certification Establishes

Level 2 describes monitored recovery housing with structured expectations, where clinical services come from providers elsewhere. Certification obliges the residence to disclose fees and rules in writing before move-in, keep a written relapse and discharge policy, follow a published code of ethics, and accept complaints reviewed outside the house. In a rural county where a prospective resident cannot easily visit, that record is the verifiable part.

Medication-Assisted Recovery for Women in Wyoming County

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

Mullens, Pineville and Wyoming County

Mullens is the largest town in Wyoming County, sitting on the Guyandotte River in the coalfields, with Pineville as the county seat about fifteen minutes south. Beckley, an hour northeast, holds the region's hospitals, the VA medical center and most of its treatment capacity. The county has lost most of its mining employment over two decades, which is the backdrop for a twelve-bed certified women's house here.