Sure. As I said earlier, transitional housing is about giving women time. When women come into the shelter, it's traumatizing. They are uprooting themselves. They're uprooting their children. It's scary. It's an unknown thing. By the time they go into transitional housing from our shelters, they're well acquainted with the staff. They realize that the building is very secure. Our transitional housing is attached to our Huntsville shelter. While they're there, we do have staff they can access for support during their stays.
They're not doing everything on their own for the first time. Quite often we have women who have never even opened a bank account before. Someone can help guide them through those kinds of things. All the little daily things you take for granted when you live alone are new for these women, in a lot of cases. They might also have been made to feel, because of the abuse, that they're stupid and they can't do it. We are there to provide support, a roof over their heads and help, in the ways that we can.