My Brother My Sister Foundation

About My Brother My Sister Foundation

My Brother My Sister Foundation is a sober living operator in Richmond, Virginia, running nine certified recovery residences across the city and into Henrico County. Every one of them appears on the Commonwealth's register of recovery residences, and all nine are run to one set of house standards.

A Richmond Recovery Housing Provider

This is a housing organization. The houses supply a household, peer accountability and a stable address, and clinical care comes from outpatient providers elsewhere in Richmond. Residents keep their own prescribers, counselors and meetings. What the operator is responsible for is the part a resident notices day to day: that the fee is predictable, the rules read the same at every address, and there is somewhere to go if one household turns out to be the wrong fit.

Nine Sober Homes in Richmond and Sandston

The residences fall into two named series:

• MBMS 1, at 3006 Hungary Springs Road in Richmond, and MBMS 2 next door at 3008.
• MBMS 3, at 8805 Gayton Road in Richmond, and MBMS 4 further north at 9514 Gayton Road.
• MBMS 5, on Erhart Road in Richmond.
• MBMS 6, at 3908 West End Drive in Richmond.
• The Evolution Network House 1, at 3808 Montrose Avenue in Richmond.
• The Evolution Network House 2, on Williamsburg Road in Sandston, in Henrico County.
• The Evolution Network House 3, at 4315 1st Street in Richmond.

Six sit in the western band of the Richmond area, two on the city's north and east sides, and one in Sandston, east of the city near Richmond International Airport. The clustering has a practical consequence. Moving between most of these addresses leaves a resident's bus routes, providers and employer untouched.

What Certification Means for a Virginia Sober Living Operator

Virginia does not treat recovery-residence certification as optional. Under Va. Code section 37.2-431.1, running an uncertified recovery residence is a Class 1 misdemeanor, and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services keeps the register that records compliance. The Commonwealth recognizes exactly two credentialing bodies, the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences and Oxford House, Inc. Certification through the first commits 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 nine of this foundation's residences are on the state register, which makes each of those commitments a matter a prospective resident can check from outside the organization. The steps behind the credential are set out in this guide to certifying a sober living home in Virginia.

Serving Central Virginia's Region 4

DBHDS Region 4 covers central Virginia, and Richmond holds the bulk of its treatment capacity, its courts, its state agencies and its entry-level employment. That is why the operator's footprint stays inside one metropolitan area. A resident placed in any of these houses is inside reach of outpatient care, a probation or drug court obligation, a community college campus and a paycheck, all without a car and all without leaving the region.

One Application Across Nine Recovery Residences

Placement runs through the foundation, which is the case for choosing a multi-house operator over a single sober home. An applicant is considered against every opening the organization has, and a transfer later is a conversation with people who already know him. The questions worth putting to an operator at this stage are about the business: how long it has housed residents in the Richmond area, whether it takes referrals from treatment providers and the courts, how fees and deposits are documented and refunded, and how a complaint gets escalated past a house manager to the operator and then to the certifying body.