Virginia Family Services

About Virginia Family Services

Virginia Family Services is a sober living operator and behavioral health provider in Richmond, Virginia, running eleven certified recovery residences inside the city. The organization has delivered addiction and mental health treatment since 2012, holds CARF accreditation, and belongs to the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers. Its recovery housing and its clinical services come from the same staff.

A Richmond Recovery Housing Provider With Treatment Attached

Most sober living operators refer residents out for clinical care. This one delivers it. Addiction Recovery Treatment Services and mental health care are provided directly, billed to Medicaid and the major commercial plans, and the assessment that decides a resident's level of care happens inside the same organization that holds the bed. For someone leaving detox without a provider, an appointment or an address, that removes the step where most placements collapse. It also explains why every one of these houses lists co-occurring disorders among the populations it serves.

Eleven Certified Sober Houses in Richmond

The portfolio is unusually concentrated. Ten of the eleven residences sit on West Moore Street on the city's near west side, and the eleventh is a few blocks north on West Leigh Street:

• Simms House, 1805 W. Moore Street, Richmond.
• Oliver House, 1809 West Moore Street, Richmond.
• Jackson House, 2057 W. Moore Street Unit 1, Richmond.
• Taylor House, 2057 W. Moore Street Unit #2, Richmond.
• Moton House, 2061 W. Moore Street Unit #1, Richmond.
• State House, 2061 W. Moore Street Unit #2, Richmond.
• Washington House, 2065 W. Moore Street Unit #1, Richmond.
• Monroe House, 2065 W. Moore Street #2, Richmond.
• Discovery House, 2069 W. Moore Street Unit 1, Richmond.
• Cardinal House, 2069 W. Moore Street Unit #2, Richmond.
• Oak House, 917 West Leigh Street, Richmond.

Four of those street numbers hold two separately certified households, one in each unit. The state registers every unit on its own row, which is why the count of houses is higher than the count of addresses.

Coed Sober Homes Serving Several Populations

All eleven households are coed, and the state register names the same populations across the portfolio: women, men, LGBTQIA+ residents, veterans, pregnant women, and residents managing a mental health diagnosis alongside a substance use disorder. Coed recovery housing is less common in Virginia than single-gender housing, and an operator running only coed households is making a deliberate choice. It gives referral sources one place to send a man and a woman from the same treatment episode, and it gives transgender and nonbinary applicants a household that has already said it will house them.

VARR Accreditation Across the Portfolio

Every residence is certified through the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences and carries Level of Support 2, the tier VARR names Monitored. Virginia grants certification address by address, and it is mandatory: operating an uncertified recovery residence is a criminal offense under state law. An operator holding certification on all eleven of its houses has committed each of them to a code of ethics, to written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, to a written relapse and discharge policy, and to complaint review from outside the house.

One Application Across Eleven Recovery Homes

Applications go to the operator, not to a house. That is the practical case for a clustered provider. An applicant is considered across the whole group, and a resident who needs a different household, a different manager or a quieter street can transfer without leaving the neighborhood, the bus routes or the fee structure. The houses stand within a few blocks of each other, so a move rarely disturbs a job or a treatment schedule.

Sober Living Operators and the Richmond Market

Richmond is an independent city and the state capital, which puts the courts, the state agencies, Richmond Behavioral Health Authority and the VCU Health campuses inside one jurisdiction. DBHDS Region 4, centered on the city, holds more certified recovery housing than any other part of Virginia. An operator with eleven certified beds' worth of households in one ZIP code, its own outpatient arm and CARF accreditation occupies a distinct position in that market: the resident's housing, therapy and prescriber can all be arranged by people who work in the same building.

What to Ask This Virginia Sober Living Operator

The questions that matter at the operator level differ from the ones about a single address. How the fee is set and what it covers. Whether a resident on buprenorphine or methadone can keep that medication in every house. How a transfer between houses is decided. Whether treatment is required as a condition of housing or offered alongside it. How a complaint moves past the house manager to the operator and then to the certifying body. A CARF-accredited provider holding current certification on eleven residences should answer all five without hesitation.