Mid-Ohio Valley Fellowship Home / Women with Children Home Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Mid-Ohio Valley Fellowship Home Women with Children Home is a recovery residence in Parkersburg, West Virginia, in Wood County, on George Street. It holds six beds at Level 2 certification from the West Virginia Alliance of Recovery Residences and houses women together with their children.

A Sober Living Home for Mothers in Parkersburg

West Virginia has very few certified recovery residences that take women with their children, and the shortage forces mothers leaving treatment into an impossible position: enter recovery housing without the children, or keep the children somewhere that is not drug free. A six-bed certified house in Parkersburg that takes both removes that choice for the Mid-Ohio Valley.

Why the Operator Splits Its Women's Recovery Homes

The organization runs a separate house on Charles Street for women without children. Keeping the two populations in different households means a mother is not the only one managing bedtimes and school runs, and a woman without children is not living inside a household organized around them. Very few West Virginia operators run enough houses to make that split.

Level 2 Certification and Family Recovery Housing

Level 2 describes monitored recovery housing with structured expectations and outside clinical care. Certification requires written fee and rule disclosure before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, and an external complaint process. Where children live in a residence, a complaint route that does not run through house management carries particular weight.

Fees and SNAP

A $100 processing fee is due at move-in, with $300 a month in program fees until SNAP benefits are established.

Parkersburg, Wood County and Family Court

Parkersburg is the county seat, holding the Wood County Courthouse, the family court, Camden Clark Medical Center and the region's caseworkers. For a mother working through a custody or abuse and neglect proceeding, being in the same city as the court and the caseworkers determines whether appointments get kept, which is the practical case for recovery housing in the county seat.