True Recovery RVA

About True Recovery RVA

True Recovery RVA is a sober living operator based in Richmond, Virginia, running recovery residences across the city, Henrico County and Chesterfield County. It was founded in 2017 and now operates sixteen homes in the Richmond area, thirteen of them certified on Virginia's state register. Crystal Doss is chief executive and Coleman Mundie is president.

A Richmond Recovery Housing Provider Built on Lived Experience

Nearly everyone on staff is personally in recovery, and the organization treats that as its operating model instead of a marketing line. The effect a resident notices is in the small decisions: how a missed curfew gets handled, how a relapse conversation opens, how quickly someone recognizes the difference between a bad week and a slide. Around the housing, the organization runs peer support, employment guidance, case management and transportation, which are the services that decide whether a resident keeps a job and an appointment calendar in the first ninety days.

Sober Living Homes in Richmond, Henrico and Chesterfield

Sixteen residences carry the True Recovery RVA name:

• Walford, on Walford Avenue in Richmond, for men.
• Hermitage, on Hermitage Road in Richmond, coed, and the one residence whose register entry names pregnant women.
• Leigh St, on West Leigh Street in Richmond, for men.
• Lakeside - 5805 Lakeside Avenue, in Richmond, for women, at the supervised level.
• Eco Flats, on Brook Road in Richmond, coed, and the operator publishes it on its own site as one of its programs.
• New Wistar, on Wistar Village Drive in Henrico, for men, at the supervised level.
• Old Wistar, on Wistar Village Drive in Henrico, for men.
• Staples Mill, on Staples Mill Road in Henrico, for men.
• Greycliff, on Greycliff Road in Henrico, coed.
• Lester, on Lester Lane in Henrico, for men.
• Dumbarton, on Dumbarton Road in Henrico, for men, at the supervised level.
• Laurel Pine, on Laurel Pine Drive in Henrico, for men.
• Belmont, on Belmont Road in Chesterfield, for men.
• The FROG Houses, in Richmond, taking men and women. No street address is published for this listing, and placement runs through the operator.
• Quioccasin, an eight-bed men's residence in the Richmond area at the ASAM 3.1 level, with two and a half bathrooms and staff on site around the clock. The address is not published.
• Ellwood, an eight-bed women's residence in the Richmond area at the ASAM 3.1 level, with three bathrooms and staff on site around the clock. The address is not published.

Ten of the sixteen sit inside a few square miles of north and west Henrico County and north Richmond, and two more stand in the city center off the Brook Road and Leigh Street corridor. That density is the operator's defining feature. A resident moving between houses keeps his bus route, his outpatient provider and his job.

Men's and Women's Sober Houses Kept Separate

Most of the portfolio is single-gender. Ten residences are men's houses, two are women's houses, three are coed, and The FROG Houses take men and women as separate households. Keeping the split at the house level means the rules, the meetings and the shared space are written for one population, and it gives the operator somewhere to place a woman who will not live in a mixed building and a man who has been declined by a coed house. Greycliff, Hermitage and Eco Flats take applicants that single-gender housing in this market often turns away.

Levels of Support From Monitored to Supervised

Virginia's register assigns each certified residence a level of support, and this operator runs two of them. Ten of the certified houses are monitored, with a house manager, uniform written rules and drug screening, and clinical care obtained from outside providers. Three are supervised, adding employed staff in defined roles, scheduled programming and administrative oversight above the residence. A prospective resident should ask which level an address carries, because the difference between the two is the difference between a household with rules and an organization with a schedule.

VARR Certification Across the Portfolio

Thirteen residences are accredited through the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences and appear on the register the state republishes. Virginia is one of the few states where this is not voluntary: operating an uncertified recovery residence is a criminal offense, and only two credentialing bodies are recognized. Certification is granted residence by residence, so an operator carrying it on thirteen addresses has chosen thirteen times to work inside a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules, and a complaint process outside the house. Quioccasin, Ellwood and The FROG Houses are the three addresses the August register does not name, and anyone comparing them should ask the operator directly which credential each one holds.

Clinical Programming Alongside Recovery Housing

The organization also runs clinical programming at the ASAM 2.5 partial hospitalization level and at 3.1, which is what the Quioccasin and Ellwood residences deliver. That gives a single operator a range from clinically managed residential care through supervised housing to monitored houses that ask a resident to hold his own schedule. Someone entering at the structured end has a defined path down, and the people making each placement decision have watched the resident at the previous level.

One Application Across Sixteen Sober Homes

Applications go to True Recovery RVA, and that is the practical case for a multi-house operator over a standalone sober home. A man applying in the Richmond area is considered for ten men's residences, nine of them certified at the monitored or supervised level. A woman is considered for Lakeside or Ellwood, and either can also be placed in one of the three coed houses. If a placement turns out wrong after a month, the transfer conversation happens with people who already know the resident, and the expectations stay recognizable from one address to the next.