Myspace Norfolk LLC

About Myspace Norfolk LLC

Myspace Norfolk LLC is a sober living operator working in Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia, with eight certified recovery residences on the state register. Every one of them is accredited through the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences at Level of Support 2, which makes it one of the larger single-level portfolios in DBHDS Region 5.

A Hampton Roads Recovery Housing Provider

The company is a housing organization. It supplies addresses, house structure and peer accountability, and clinical care stays with outpatient providers, prescribers and counselors elsewhere in the region. Residents keep their own treatment relationships and their own meetings. What the operator controls is the part a resident notices day to day: whether the fee is predictable, whether the rules are the same from one house to the next, and whether a bed exists when somebody needs one this week.

Eight Certified Sober Living Homes in Two Cities

All eight addresses appear on the Virginia register under this operator:

• 1021 West 36th Street, Norfolk, for women.
• 1016 West 36th Street, Norfolk, for women.
• 2702 Bowdens Ferry Road, Norfolk, for women.
• 62 West 43rd Street, Norfolk, for adults.
• 5004 Shafer Street, Norfolk, for adults.
• 1433 Shelton Avenue, Norfolk, for men.
• 3408 Tidewater Drive, Norfolk, for men.
• 50 Manly Street, Portsmouth, for men.

Four of the eight sit in the 23508 postal area on the Larchmont, Riverview and Lambert's Point side of the city, within a few blocks of one another. The other four spread east and north through Norview and the Tidewater Drive corridor, with the single Portsmouth house across the Elizabeth River.

Men's, Women's and Mixed Adult Sober Houses

Three residences are women's houses, three are men's, and two are registered for adults generally. That spread is unusual for a portfolio this size and it is the reason the operator can place most applicants somewhere. A man turned away from Tidewater Drive can be considered for Shelton Avenue or Manly Street. A woman turned away from one West 36th Street house is a few steps from the other. Anyone applying to one of the two adult-registered addresses should ask who currently lives there, since the register does not fix those two to a single gender.

VARR Accreditation Across the Portfolio

Certification in Virginia is compulsory. Va. Code section 37.2-431.1 makes running an uncertified recovery residence a Class 1 misdemeanor, and the Commonwealth recognizes only two credentialing bodies. This operator carries VARR accreditation on every address it runs, at Level of Support 2 throughout, which VARR names Monitored. Accreditation is granted residence by residence, so the fact that none of the eight is missing from the register says something about how the company is run.

One Application, Eight Norfolk Area Recovery Homes

Admissions run through the operator instead of house by house, which is the practical argument for choosing a multi-house company over a standalone address. An applicant is assessed once and considered across the network, and a transfer after move-in is a conversation with people who already know them. The questions to ask at this level are company questions: how long the firm has housed residents in Hampton Roads, whether it takes referrals from treatment providers and the courts, how deposits are documented and refunded, and how a complaint escalates past the house to the operator and then to the certifying body.

Serving Norfolk, Portsmouth and DBHDS Region 5

Both cities this operator works in are independent cities, so neither belongs to a county and neither has a county seat above it. Region 5 covers South Hampton Roads and the Eastern Shore, and its certified recovery housing is concentrated in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake and Virginia Beach. Norfolk holds the region's anchors: Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, Old Dominion University, Norfolk State University, Tidewater Community College, Naval Station Norfolk and the Hampton Roads Transit network that ties them together. An operator with eight addresses inside that footprint puts residents where the jobs, the buses and the appointment slots already are.