Transitional housing is a very useful resource for recovering individuals in Advent, West Virginia who have graduated a drug treatment program but still need time to fully re-acclimate to normal life and the real world. To an individual who has abused drugs or 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 Advent provides a safe haven where individuals who are in this stage of the drug rehabilitation experience can little by little become comfortable with the process 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 steady employment and housing so that they have a good chance at remaining abstinent and being to lead a productive and happy life.