Transitional Housing, Oxford Houses in Virginia

Oxford Houses are rented family houses where groups of recovering individuals (drug and alcohol addiction) rent to live together in an environment supportive of recovery from addiction.  Each house is self-run and self-supported following a standardized system of democratic operation.  Each group – or treatment provider on behalf of a group – obtains a charter from Oxford House, Inc., the umbrella organization for the national network of individual Oxford Houses.    An Oxford House charter has three basic requirements for the group:

• It must be democratically self-run
• It must be financially self-supported
• It must expel any resident who returns to using alcohol or drugs

Individuals living in an Oxford House learn or relearn values, responsible behavior and slowly develop long-term behavior to assure comfortable sobriety without relapse.  The number of residents in a House may ranged from six to fifteen; there are houses for men, houses for women, and houses which accept women with children.



View the directory on the website to located vacancies in the Oxford Houses in Virginia.  There are over 100 Houses in the state of Virginia.