Edgewood Group, LLC

About Edgewood Group, LLC

Edgewood Group, LLC is a sober living operator working in Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, with seven certified recovery residences on the Commonwealth's register. All seven sit inside DBHDS Region 4, and all seven are run to one set of house standards.

A Two-City Recovery Housing Provider

Edgewood is a housing company. It supplies the address, the household and the accountability, and treatment stays with outpatient providers in whichever city a resident is placed. What the operator owns is consistency: the same fee structure, the same expectations and the same escalation path at every door. That consistency is the argument for dealing with a company that runs seven houses instead of a landlord who runs one.

Seven Sober Homes in Petersburg and Richmond

The portfolio is unusually concentrated:

• 1681 Monticello Street, Petersburg, for women.
• 1683 Monticello Street, Petersburg, for men.
• 1685 Monticello Street, Petersburg, for women.
• 1687 Monticello Street, Petersburg, for men.
• 306 E. 32nd Street, Richmond, for men.
• 2203 3rd Avenue, Richmond, for women.
• 2205 3rd Avenue, Richmond, for men.

Four of the seven stand in a row on one block of Monticello Street, alternating between women's and men's houses. Two more are next door to each other on 3rd Avenue in north Richmond. Only one address, the men's house south of the James River in Richmond, stands alone. For a resident, that clustering means a change of household rarely means a change of city, bus route or employer.

Men's and Women's Sober Houses Kept Separate

Every Edgewood residence is single-gender, and the company achieves a mixed-gender footprint by putting men's and women's houses side by side instead of inside one building. Three of the seven serve women and four serve men. The effect is that house rules, shared space and household culture are written for one population at each address, while a family or a couple in recovery can still be placed within walking distance of each other.

What Certification Requires of a Virginia Recovery Housing Operator

Virginia does not allow an uncertified recovery residence to operate. Under Va. Code section 37.2-431.1 it is a Class 1 misdemeanor, and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services publishes the register that records who is compliant. The Commonwealth recognizes two credentialing bodies, the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences and Oxford House, Inc. Certification through the first binds an operator to a published code of ethics, to written disclosure of fees and house rules before anyone signs, to a written relapse and discharge policy, and to a complaint process a resident can take past the house manager. All seven Edgewood residences appear on the state register, so a family evaluating the company from out of state can confirm the credential before making a call. The steps behind it are set out in this guide to certifying a sober living home in Virginia.

Where This Sober Living Operator Works

The footprint is the Interstate 95 corridor between Richmond and the Tri-Cities. Richmond is the capital and the center of Region 4's treatment, court and employment capacity. Petersburg, twenty-five miles south, is the service hub for a large stretch of southern Virginia and holds Southside Regional Medical Center along with Central State Hospital, one of the Commonwealth's own behavioral health facilities. Recovery housing thins out quickly south and west of Petersburg, so an operator holding four houses there is a substantial part of the local supply.

Reaching Edgewood Group for a Recovery Housing Placement

Applications go to the company, not to individual houses, which means one conversation covers openings in two cities. The questions worth asking at the operator level are business questions: how long the company has housed residents in Virginia, whether it takes referrals from treatment providers, drug courts and reentry programs, how fees and deposits are documented and refunded, and how a complaint moves from a house manager to the company and then to the certifying body.