Mercer County Fellowship Home

About Mercer County Fellowship Home

Mercer County Fellowship Home is a men's sober living operator in Bluefield, West Virginia, providing certified recovery housing in the southern coalfields. The organization runs the fellowship home model, one of the oldest forms of recovery housing in the United States, at Level 2 certification.

A Mercer County Recovery Housing Provider

Fellowship homes predate the modern certification framework by decades and rest on a simple structure: men in recovery living together under shared expectations, with clinical care coming from providers elsewhere. This organization runs that model in Bluefield, the largest city in a county on the Virginia line, in a region carrying the highest overdose rates in the country and among the fewest certified recovery beds.

Level 2 Certified Men's Recovery Housing

The residence carries Level 2 certification from the West Virginia Alliance of Recovery Residences, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences, describing monitored recovery housing with structured expectations and clinical services from outside providers. Certification obliges the residence to disclose fees and rules in writing before move-in, keep a written relapse and discharge policy, follow a published code of ethics, and accept complaints reviewed outside the house.

A Fee Structure Built Around EBT

The published charge is $250 a month, payable as $250 in cash or check, or as $150 plus $200 in EBT. Publishing an EBT route explicitly. That is a $250 monthly figure in a region where full-time wages sit well below the state average.

Serving the Southern Coalfields

Bluefield is the largest city in Mercer County, on the Virginia state line, with Princeton as the county seat holding the courthouse and Princeton Community Hospital ten miles north. The surrounding counties of McDowell, Wyoming, Summers and Monroe hold almost no certified beds of their own, so recovery housing in Bluefield serves a catchment reaching across a wide stretch of two states.