Transitional housing is a very useful resource for recovering individuals in Mount Vernon, KY. who have graduated a drug or alcohol rehabilitation program but still need time to completely re-acclimate to normal life and the real world. For a person who has used drugs and alcohol to self medicate and especially for long term addicts, the world can seem like a formidable place now that one has to endure life without the use of drugs or alcohol. Transitional housing in Mount Vernon offers a safe haven where those who are in this phase of the drug rehabilitation process can slowly grow to be comfortable with the idea of rebuilding their life without drugs and becoming independent. 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 strong chance at remaining abstinent and being to have a productive and happy life.