Transitional housing is a very helpful resource for recovering individuals in Jamaica, Iowa who have graduated a drug or alcohol treatment program but still require time to completely re-adjust to regular life and the real world. For someone who has abused drugs and alcohol to self medicate and particularly for long term addicts, the world can feel like a formidable place now that one has to get through life without alcohol or drugs. Transitional housing in Jamaica provides a safe atmosphere where individuals who are in this phase of the drug rehab experience can slowly grow to be comfortable with the process 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 obtain stable employment and housing so that they have a good chance at remaining abstinent and being to have a productive and happy life.