Transitional housing is a very useful resource for recovering individuals in Waterloo who have graduated a drug rehab program but still need time to completely re-adjust to normal life and the real world. To an individual who has abused drugs and alcohol to self medicate and especially for long term addicts, the world can seem like a formidable place now that one has to endure life without the use of drugs or alcohol. Transitional housing in Waterloo supplies a safe atmosphere where individuals who are in this phase of the drug rehab process can slowly become comfortable with the process of restoring their life without drugs and on their own. 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 stable employment and housing so that they have a strong chance at remaining abstinent and being to have a fruitful and happy life.