CHRIS180 is an Atlanta nonprofit that has served children, adults and families since 1981. It offers counseling, foster care and adoption help, and housing and a drop-in center for young adults facing homelessness. You can call the helpline or fill out an intake form to get started.
Georgia DFCS is the state agency for family and children's services. On its website and in Georgia Gateway you can start applications for food stamps (SNAP), Medicaid, cash help (TANF), and energy help. It also takes reports of child abuse and works with foster and adoptive families.
This is the Georgia state agency that helps children and families. It takes reports of child abuse, supports foster and adoptive families, and runs benefit programs such as SNAP, TANF and Medicaid. It also has a group program for adopted and guardianship teens.
National Safe Haven Alliance is a national nonprofit that works to prevent babies from being unsafely abandoned. Its 24/7 crisis hotline helps parents look at their choices: parenting, a temporary placement, adoption, or a Safe Haven drop-off. The pages list a mailing address in Arizona, not in Atlanta.
Bethany Christian Services is a faith-based nonprofit that helps children and families through foster care, adoption, and support for immigrant and refugee children without a parent. It also offers home studies, post-adoption support, substance use recovery help, and a program for youth ages 16 to 24 to build life skills and healthy relationships.
Women's Clinic of Atlanta has an office in Decatur. It gives pregnancy tests, abortion screening, STI testing and treatment, birth control visits, and other sexual health care. Pregnancy testing and abortion screening are free, and lab and prescription fees can apply to other care. The Decatur office does not give abortions or refer people for them.
Families First is an Atlanta nonprofit that helps families get stronger. It offers counseling and a psychiatry clinic for youth, case managers who connect families to services like housing, health care and jobs, and parenting and adoption classes. It also holds community events, like a yearly Back-to-School Bash with free school supplies and groceries.
This is the Georgia state agency that looks into reports of child abuse and neglect and works to keep children safe. It also helps people become foster or adoptive caregivers, and it runs benefits like SNAP, cash help, Medicaid, and energy help. Most benefits can be applied for online through Georgia Gateway.
Georgia Agape is a Christian nonprofit that has helped children and families since 1970. It finds foster homes and adoptive homes for children. It also helps women facing an unplanned pregnancy think through their choices, including parenting and adoption.
Families First is a Georgia nonprofit that helps families grow stronger. It offers case managers who link families to services, counseling and psychiatric care, parenting and co-parenting classes, and training for foster, kinship and adoptive caregivers. Call the main number to ask about a service.
Necco is a child welfare group that has worked with children and families since 1996. Its Atlanta office in Jonesboro helps people become foster parents and gives them training and support. Necco's Georgia services also include foster-to-adopt help and a life skills program for older foster youth.
Maze of Life Resource Center offers counseling, life skills and coaching, and classes that courts, probation, parole or child-welfare caseworkers may require. Adults, young people and families can come in person or join online. The Georgia office on Park Lake Drive is in northeast Atlanta, and all services are also offered in Spanish.
This is Georgia's state agency for family and children's services. It helps families apply for food benefits, cash help, and Medicaid. It also takes reports of child abuse, and it runs foster care and adoption services.
This is the Fulton County South office of Georgia's Division of Family & Children Services (DFCS) in College Park. It is mostly used for child welfare work. Since August 1, 2025, people who used to come here to apply for SNAP, TANF, or medical help go to the Fulton County DHS office on Donald Lee Hollowell Pkwy. This office only has self-service options for those benefits.
Christian City is a faith-based nonprofit on a 500-acre campus in Union City. It runs a group home for children, foster care and adoption support, help for runaway and homeless youth, and a program for young adults leaving foster care. It also helps families in crisis and offers homes for seniors.
Abiding Love Charities is a faith-based group that supports people in the adoption journey, especially birth mothers after placement. It offers birth mother advocates, monthly support groups, mediation, and coaching for adoptive parents. It has a Georgia office on St. Simon's Island.
St. Nick's Kids is an adoption agency in Marietta. Its social workers help pregnant women and birth parents look at their choices and make an adoption plan.S. or from another country, and it does home studies.
First Baptist Atlanta is a Christ-centered church at 4400 North Peachtree Road. It holds two Sunday worship services and Wednesday night dinner and classes. It also has kids programs, Bible studies, a cancer support group, and ways to volunteer and serve.
DFCS is the Georgia state agency that runs food help (SNAP), cash help (TANF), Medicaid applications, child abuse reporting, foster care and adoption. Many benefits can be applied for online through Georgia Gateway. It also pays for afterschool programs and works with local Community Action Agencies on energy help.
Lifeline Children's Services is a Christian nonprofit that works with children, families and churches. It offers adoption help, free pregnancy support, counseling, parent coaching, and foster care and family support programs. Many of its programs are run through partner churches.