Transitional housing is a very helpful resource for people in Challenge who have graduated a drug or alcohol rehabilitation program but still need time to completely re-acclimate to normal life and the real world. To an individual who has used drugs and alcohol to self medicate and especially for long term addicts, the world can feel like a formidable place now that one has to endure life without alcohol or drugs. Transitional housing in Challenge, California supplies a safe haven where those who are in this phase of the drug rehabilitation experience can slowly become at ease with the idea of rebuilding their life without drugs and on their own. While in transitional housing those in recovery can continue to participate in individualized and group counseling as needed to help them along, and also to find stable employment and housing so that they have a good chance at remaining abstinent and being to lead a fruitful and happy life.