<prompt> Human: I just spent 6 months in a rehabilitation facility and have been sober since the day I entered. My insurance has stopped covering my treatment, and I wasnt supposed to be discharged until December. I have no family to support me and have lost all my friends in the rehabilitation process as they were toxic. Im presently in Central California and plan to stay here if possible. I feel like Im unprepared to face the real world. I have nothing in my savings, no car, no house, no place to stay. I dont want to end up in the streets because I feel like that would only make my condition worse. If anyone has any advice on what I should do first, that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much to PF, Im so glad theres a place like this for me to seek help.  <response>: Congratulations on getting sober! Ive got about 20 months at the moment and it was definitely the best decision I ever made.I can share some of my experiences getting out of rehab. My insurance kicked me out after three weeks, so consider yourself fortunate that you got six! months worth. That is very close to unheard of these days...First things first: I needed to prioritize my sobriety. With the way that I used and drank, I was not able to be very functional so staying sober was and is a pre-requisite for anything else. There is a lot of AA-hate on Reddit, but I can definitely say that the program and the community around it saved my life. I got into work with a sponsor, made a lot of sober friends, and became a regular at a club. There are non-twelve step support options out there such as SMART Recovery, but AA has the biggest network and presence by a long shot.I still had a little money in my bank account so I was able to keep the month-to-month lease with my roommate at the time, but if I hadnt been able to do that I would have applied for DARS funding Texas, gotten a bed at an Oxford house that charged weekly, or gotten a bed at one of the facilities that serves as a sober homeless shelter in my city. Because youre a woman you will likely want to look for facilities that are women-only.As someone else has mentioned: the facility you arewere at hasnt been able to direct you to sober living? Generally one of the main functions of a rehab is to get people re-integrated into society, and halfway houses are one of the best ways to do that. I also started looking for work immediately after getting out of rehab. I would take my laptop down to the AA club I frequented and respond to dozens of job postings a day. If you dont have a laptop, go to a library or use whatever device youre using to post on Reddit! Utilize your states work agency. Getting a full time job as quickly as possible was absolutely instrumental for me: it gave me income, it gave me self-respect, it gave me something to focus on other than recovery, and it took up 8-10 hours of my day. That last one is something that kills literally lots of people in early sobriety: they get bored and they start going back to old people, places, and things. As an addict and an alcoholic I do not generally deal with boredom well, so I made sure to fill my time by looking for work 40 hours a week until I found a job.So in closing: keep reaching out! Seriously. Keep reaching out. uIronColumn posted some fantastic places for you to get started. There are a lot of people and organizations out there that honestly and earnestly want to help you, but you need to reach out and keep doing so until you get what you need. In rehab it is very easy to get used to people holding your hand with regard to life and sobriety but unfortunately and fortunately because it would be tedious as fuck the rest of the world doesnt work like that.Good luck : 