Journey House Foundation

About Journey House Foundation

Journey House Foundation is a recovery community organization in Henrico County, Virginia, supporting sober living homes from an office on Shrader Road just outside the city of Richmond. It provides peer-to-peer recovery support as one arm of Journey House Recovery Center, a nonprofit that also delivers outpatient treatment and operates recovery housing through an affiliated entity.

A Recovery Community Organization Behind the Recovery Housing

The Foundation is the peer support side of the operation. Recovery community organizations are led and staffed by people in recovery, and the work is non-clinical: connecting someone to a meeting, a mutual aid group, a job lead or a bed, and staying in contact through the months when nothing dramatic is happening. Housing itself sits with a separate entity in the same organization, and clinical care sits with a third. For a resident, that structure means the person helping with a benefits application is not the person collecting the weekly fee.

Peer Support Alongside Certified Recovery Residences

Virginia requires recovery residences to be certified, and the state publishes the register of certified addresses each month. Peer recovery support is not certified the same way, so the two functions are worth telling apart when someone is evaluating a provider. Certification governs the house: written fees and rules before move-in, a relapse and discharge policy, a code of ethics, and outside complaint review. Peer support governs everything that happens outside it, and it is generally free to the person receiving it.

Recovery Housing in Henrico County and Greater Richmond

The office sits in Henrico County, whose county seat is the independent city of Richmond, which is not part of the county. That arrangement puts the organization minutes from the Richmond city line and inside DBHDS Region 4, the region with the largest concentration of certified recovery housing in Virginia. Henrico holds much of the area's entry-level employment along its Broad Street and Parham Road corridors, and GRTC bus routes reach them from the city, which is why so much of greater Richmond's recovery housing is clustered on this side of the county line.