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

About this Recovery House

Anchor Homes is a women's recovery residence on 4th Avenue in Saint Albans, West Virginia, in Kanawha County. Twelve women live here at $400 a month, with Level 2 certification from the West Virginia Alliance of Recovery Residences.

A Women's Sober Living Home in Saint Albans

Twelve beds in a single-gender house means the entire household shares one set of circumstances, and the practical consequences run through everything from bathroom scheduling to what gets talked about at a house meeting. 4th Avenue sits in the older residential grid of Saint Albans, within walking distance of the town's main street and its churches.

Level 2 Certification in West Virginia Recovery Housing

West Virginia recognizes four levels of recovery housing through its alliance of recovery residences, and Level 2 describes monitored housing with structured expectations and outside clinical care. The certification behind that label is what a prospective resident can actually check. It obliges the residence to disclose fees and rules in writing before anyone signs, to keep a written policy on relapse and discharge, and to answer complaints reviewed by someone outside the household.

Medication Support for Women in This Kanawha County Sober House

Sublocade, Vivitrol and Brixadi are accepted. Women on medication for opioid use disorder are consistently the hardest population to place in West Virginia sober living, and a twelve-bed certified women's house that accepts injectable treatment closes part of that gap in the western Kanawha Valley.

Recovery Homes Between Saint Albans and Charleston

Saint Albans is a river town of about ten thousand people, ten miles downstream from Charleston. The state capital holds the county courthouse, the family court, the hospitals and the outpatient providers, and Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation runs the corridor. For a woman working through custody arrangements, probation appointments and a job search at the same time, being on that corridor.