Transitional housing is a very beneficial resource for recovering individuals in Hartwick, Iowa who have graduated a drug rehab program but still require time to fully re-adjust to normal life and the real world. To a person who has abused drugs and alcohol to self medicate and particularly for long term addicts, the world can feel like a daunting place now that he or she has to endure life without the use of drugs or alcohol. Transitional housing in Hartwick supplies a secure setting where those who are in this phase of the drug rehabilitation experience can little by little become comfortable with the process of rebuilding their life without drugs and on their own. While in transitional housing recovering addicts can continue to receive individualized and group counseling as needed to help them along, and also to obtain steady employment and housing so that they have a good shot at remaining abstinent and being to have a fruitful and happy life.