Transitional housing is a very beneficial resource for individuals in Great Lakes, IL. who have graduated a drug rehabilitation program but still require time to completely re-adjust to regular life and the real world. For someone 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 the use of drugs or alcohol. Transitional housing in Great Lakes, Illinois supplies a safe atmosphere where those who are in this stage of the drug rehabilitation process can slowly become at ease with the idea of rebuilding 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 find steady employment and housing so that they have a strong chance at remaining abstinent and being to lead a productive and happy life.