WAR Foundation

About WAR Foundation

The WAR Foundation is a sober living operator working in Richmond, Virginia, and neighboring Henrico County, where it runs seven certified recovery residences. It is accredited by the Virginia Association of Recovery Residences and certified and licensed by the Commonwealth's Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services.

A Richmond Recovery Housing Provider With a Wider Program

Most recovery housing organizations do one thing. This one states its mission as transforming lives through the power of hope, support and recovery, and builds a set of services around the houses to do it: intensive programming, treatment services, court advocacy, transportation, a recovery day center, recovery friendly events, REC-CAP assessment and a recovery oriented system of care. For a resident, that changes what the address means. The house supplies a drug-free place to sleep and a set of expectations, and the organization behind it supplies the daytime hours, the ride, the assessment and the person who shows up at the courthouse.

Seven Sober Homes in Richmond and Henrico County

The portfolio spans the independent city of Richmond and the county that wraps around it:

• Barton, on Barton Avenue in Richmond, for men.
• Claiborne, on Claiborne Street in Richmond, for men.
• Clay, on West Clay Street in Richmond, for men.
• Powhatan, on Powhatan Street in Richmond, for men.
• Sumpter, on Sumpter Street in Richmond, for women.
• Leslie, on Leslie Lane in Henrico, for women.
• Walkenhut, on Walkenhut Drive in Henrico, for men.

Five sit inside the city and two in the county, close enough that the built environment runs continuously between them. A resident moving between houses keeps the same providers, the same bus network and usually the same job.

Two Levels of Support Across These Recovery Homes

Virginia publishes a level of support for every certified residence, and this operator carries both of the levels it assigns. Claiborne and Clay are certified at Level of Support 3, meaning supervised housing with an organization behind it, staff involvement in the household and structured programming written into the week. The other five are certified at Level of Support 2, meaning monitored peer housing with a manager, written rules and clinical care from outside providers. Holding both matters in practice: a resident who steps down from a structured house to a lighter one stays inside the same organization and the same relationships.

Men's and Women's Sober Houses Kept Separate

Five of the residences are men's houses and two are women's, and the split is kept at the address instead of inside a building. Men apply to Barton, Claiborne, Clay, Powhatan or Walkenhut, and women apply to Sumpter in the city or Leslie in Henrico. House rules, meetings and shared space are written for one population at each address, and nobody is the only man or the only woman under a roof.

Certification and Licensure Behind This Sober Living Operator

Virginia certifies recovery residences address by address, so an operator carrying certification on all seven of its houses has applied one standard everywhere. That standard requires a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a documented relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint process a resident can escalate past the house. Anyone comparing options should still verify the exact address, because the certification belongs to the residence.

Recovery Housing Across the Richmond Region

Richmond is the capital of Virginia and an independent city belonging to no county, and Henrico County wraps around it on three sides with Richmond as its county seat. The arrangement splits jurisdiction in ways that catch out new residents: courts, community services boards, social services and police are duplicated on either side of a line that the streets themselves cross without a break. An operator running houses on both sides deals with that split constantly, which is worth something to a resident whose case is in one jurisdiction and whose bed is in the other.

Applying to This Richmond Sober Living Operator

Applications go to the organization. The questions worth asking at this level are organizational: how long it has run housing in the Richmond area, which treatment providers, courts and community services boards refer to it, what the fee covers and how deposits are documented and refunded, how a transfer between levels of support is decided, and how a complaint moves from a house manager to the organization and then to the state. A certified and licensed operator should have all five answers ready.