Transitional housing is a very useful resource for recovering individuals in Elba, NY. who have completed a drug or alcohol treatment program but still need time to completely re-adjust to normal life and the real world. To someone who has abused 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 the use of drugs or alcohol. Transitional housing in Elba, New York supplies a safe atmosphere where those who are in this phase of the drug rehabilitation process can slowly become at ease with the process of rebuilding their life without drugs and on their own. While in transitional housing individuals 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 fruitful and happy life.