Youth Services System / Mark's House Men's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Mark's House is a men's sober living home on North Front Street in Wheeling, West Virginia, the seat of Ohio County. Eight men live here under Level 2 certification from the West Virginia Alliance of Recovery Residences, operated by Youth Services System.

The Largest Youth Services System Men's Recovery Home

Eight beds makes this the biggest of the organization's four Wheeling residences. North Front Street runs along the Ohio River at the northern edge of downtown Wheeling, close to the Wheeling Suspension Bridge and the city's older commercial core. The address is central enough that work, a meeting and an appointment are all walkable, which matters in a city built long and narrow along a river.

What Residents Pay

There is no deposit. During the first phase, an unemployed resident contributes seventy-five percent of his SNAP benefits, moving to a share of income once he is working. A fee structure tied to benefits and earnings.

Level 2 Certification in Ohio County Recovery Housing

Level 2 describes monitored recovery housing with structured expectations, where clinical care comes from providers elsewhere in the city. Certification commits the residence to written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, a published code of ethics, and complaints reviewed outside the household.

Medication Support at This Wheeling Sober House

Residents on medication for opioid use disorder are accepted, with treatment delivered through a provider offering programming. Wheeling's prescribing capacity is concentrated in the city and supplemented across the Ohio line in Belmont County.

Wheeling, Ohio County and the Northern Panhandle

Wheeling is the seat of Ohio County and the historic center of West Virginia's Northern Panhandle, sitting on the Ohio River an hour from Pittsburgh and four hours from Charleston. It holds the county courthouse, Wheeling Hospital, WVU Medicine's northern campus and the region's transit. People leaving treatment in Marshall, Brooke and Hancock counties routinely find Wheeling recovery housing to be the nearest certified option with work and services attached.