Anchor Homes - Saint Albans Men's House Men's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

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

A Men's Sober House in Saint Albans

The gender restriction settles the household questions in one move: bathrooms, meetings and common space are single-gender and one rule set covers everyone. Fourteen beds is large enough that a resident always has someone to talk to at two in the morning and small enough to stay a house. Grant Avenue runs through the residential blocks above the Saint Albans business district.

What Level 2 Certification Establishes

Level 2 in the West Virginia Alliance of Recovery Residences framework describes monitored housing: a peer or staff presence, structured expectations, and clinical services delivered by outside providers. Certification itself commits the residence to a published code of ethics, to handing an applicant fees and house rules in writing before move-in, to keeping a written relapse and discharge policy, and to accepting complaints reviewed outside the house. For a family helping someone choose from another state, that record is the checkable part.

Medication-Assisted Recovery in This Kanawha County Recovery Home

Sublocade, Vivitrol and Brixadi are accepted. All three are long-acting injectables, which suits a resident who works shifts and cannot build a day around a daily dosing window. Charleston's prescribers sit fifteen minutes east along the river.

Saint Albans and Kanawha Valley Recovery Housing

Saint Albans sits where the Coal River meets the Kanawha, about ten miles west of Charleston, and it is one of the older working towns in the valley. Charleston is the state capital and the seat of Kanawha County, and the corridor between them carries the chemical plants, the hospitals and most of the county's employment. A man living in Saint Albans is close enough to Charleston to use its services and far enough out to be in a quieter town.

One of Nine Anchor Homes Recovery Residences

This house is part of a nine-property portfolio spread from Saint Albans through Belle and Montgomery, with an outlier in Fairmont. A resident who needs a different level of structure later, or simply a different set of housemates, raises it with people who already know him.