Transitional housing is a very beneficial resource for recovering individuals in Carpenter who have completed a drug rehab program but still require time to fully re-acclimate to normal life and the real world. For someone who has used drugs or alcohol to self medicate and especially for long term addicts, the world can seem like a formidable place now that he or she has to get through life without alcohol or drugs. Transitional housing in Carpenter, IA. provides a safe atmosphere where those who are in this phase of the drug rehabilitation experience can slowly grow to be at ease with the process of restoring their life without drugs and becoming independent. While in transitional housing those in recovery 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 have a successful and happy life.