Transitional housing is a very useful resource for individuals in Quaker Street who have completed a drug rehab program but still need time to completely re-adjust to regular life and the real world. To a person who has used drugs or alcohol to self medicate and especially for long term addicts, the world can feel like a formidable place now that he or she has to endure life without alcohol or drugs. Transitional housing in Quaker Street supplies a safe atmosphere where individuals who are in this phase of the drug rehabilitation experience can slowly grow to be comfortable with the idea of restoring 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 stable employment and housing so that they have a good chance at remaining abstinent and being to have a successful and happy life.