REA of Hope Fellowship Home

About REA of Hope Fellowship Home

REA of Hope Fellowship Home is a residential sober living program in Charleston’s Historic East End for West Virginia women recovering from alcohol and drug addiction, and often for their children as well. Their approach is abstinence-based and 12-step oriented, built around personal responsibility, practical life skills, and self-sufficiency, with reuniting mothers and children as a central goal. They offer staffed recovery houses with 14 beds, followed by a second phase of apartments for graduates and their minor children. Instead of on-site clinical treatment, they provide safe, affordable housing and case management, along with referrals for counseling and health care.

The Fellowship Home is staffed 24 hours a day and asks for a minimum six-month stay. Women must be at least 18, have 30 days of sobriety, have a primary diagnosis of alcoholism or chemical dependency, and have recently completed an inpatient or outpatient program. Residents work full time, attend at least five 12-step meetings a week, find a sponsor, take random drug tests, share cooking and cleaning, and pay weekly fees of $77 for the program and $42 for food. Through partnerships with local agencies, they connect women to job training, GED preparation, counseling, and transportation, and they support continuing education up to the master’s level. Graduates with seven months of abstinence and steady employment can move into New Life Apartments, where staff help them resolve credit, fines, and legal barriers and coordinate with foster parents and child protective services as mothers build stable homes for their children.