Southern Highlands

About Southern Highlands

Southern Highlands is a recovery housing provider running the RISE Recovery Residence in Bluefield, West Virginia, certified sober living in Mercer County. The organization is a community behavioral health center operating in the southern coalfields, and its recovery residence sits inside the region with the fewest certified beds and the highest overdose rates in the country.

A Behavioral Health Center Running Recovery Housing

Southern Highlands is one of West Virginia's regional comprehensive behavioral health centers, serving several counties along the Virginia border. Recovery housing attached to a behavioral health center works differently from independent sober living: the clinical services a resident needs and the housing he lives in sit within reach of the same organization, which closes the gap where people usually fall out of care.

Certified Men's Recovery Housing at Level 2

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 housing with structured expectations. Certification is granted address by address and commits the residence to written fee and rule disclosure before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, a published code of ethics, and complaints reviewed outside the house.

What It Costs

A $400 deposit is due at the time of admission. Stating the admission figure plainly lets a man arriving from treatment or from court know exactly what he needs on day one, which is the number that decides whether a bed is reachable.

Serving the Southern Coalfields

Mercer County sits on the Virginia line with Princeton as its seat and Bluefield as its largest city. The counties around it, McDowell, Wyoming, Summers and Monroe, hold almost no certified recovery beds of their own. A residence in Bluefield therefore serves a catchment reaching across a wide stretch of southern West Virginia and into southwest Virginia.