Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency helps people with money struggles get ready for work and find steady jobs. It offers career coaching, job readiness classes, training, job placement, and financial coaching. It serves veterans, people without housing, older workers, young adults, and people coming home from prison.
The Kristine Pettoni Foundation offers a 12-month program called Budget for Life. It teaches money skills to help individuals and families become financially stable.
WorkSource Atlanta is the City of Atlanta's free career center, part of the city's workforce system once known as the Atlanta Workforce Development Agency. It helps Atlanta residents find jobs, get career training, and improve work skills, and it also helps local businesses find workers. Services are free and include help for adults, laid-off workers, and young people ages 16-24.
Westside Works is a job training and career center on Atlanta's Westside. It is an initiative of CareerRise. It offers training in construction, culinary and hospitality, healthcare, and technology, plus career advising, job clubs, and job fairs.
This is the Goodwill of North Georgia career center at 2160 Metropolitan Parkway SW. It sits at the same address as a Goodwill store and donation center. You can look for jobs, use computers, get help with a resume and cover letter, and work with a career coach. Goodwill says its career centers are free and open to the public.
This is the state office that leads Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education for Georgia's public schools. It helps students get ready for college, a job, an apprenticeship, or the military after high school. It offers career pathways, student clubs, college-credit options, and free career-exploration resources.
Dress for Success Georgia, also called Dress for Success Atlanta, helps women reach economic independence. It offers professional clothing, career counseling and workforce training, and support that continues after a woman finds a job. Clients can also join virtual and in-person classes.
STRIVE Atlanta is the Atlanta site of a national job training group. It offers free job training for adults and young adults, plus career coaching, help finding a job, and support that continues after you are hired. To start, you sign up for an info session.
Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency (ACSS) helps people with money struggles get ready for work, find a job, and keep it. Its main program, CareerWorks, starts with a three-week boot camp and then gives 12 months of job help and coaching. It also has programs for veterans, young adults, and hiring events with employers.
This is a Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta site on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive for teens ages 12 to 18. It works with partners to offer help with school, job and career skills, counseling, and life skills. Teens can also join groups like Teen Council, Career Launch, and Money Matters.
Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Atlanta helps people who recently came home from jail or prison find steady work. New members start right away on a paid work crew, get job skills training and coaching, and receive help finding and keeping a permanent job afterward. CEO is growing its program on Atlanta's Westside, in neighborhoods like English Avenue and Vine City.
This is the South DeKalb Career Center, run by Goodwill of North Georgia in Decatur. It helps people find work with job listings, computers, resume and cover letter help, and career coaching. The same site also has a donation drop-off.
Covenant House Georgia helps young people ages 18 to 24 who are homeless or escaping trafficking. It has a crisis shelter, longer-term apartment housing, health care and counseling, school and job help, and street outreach. A young person who needs shelter can call the youth line.
Connecting Communities and Families helps young adults leaving foster care, people coming home from prison or jail, and families with low to moderate incomes. They offer job training, computer skills classes, job placement help, and support like case management and rides.
Bridges Atlanta helps young adults with disabilities, ages 17 to 26, get ready for a job, find one, and keep it. A Youth Employment Specialist works with each person one-on-one and stays involved for the first year on the job. It is free for participants and families.
This is Georgia's state agency that helps people with disabilities get ready for work, find a job, and keep it. It also helps people who are blind, low vision, Deaf, or hard of hearing, supports independent living, and handles Social Security disability decisions for Georgia.
The Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (GVRA) helps Georgians with disabilities get ready for, find, keep, or return to work. Its assistive work technology team checks what tools a person needs, looks at the worksite, and can help with home and vehicle changes. Tools for Life is a separate program at Georgia Tech. It lets people learn about assistive devices and borrow some to try, and it runs a device reuse program and a loan program to help people get devices.
WorkSource DeKalb is DeKalb County's job center. It gives job seekers free help with career counseling, job search, training, and GED support. It also has programs for young people ages 16 to 24 and services for employers.
The Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency is a state agency that helps Georgians with disabilities get, keep, or return to a job and live on their own. It offers job counseling, training, job placement, and equipment, plus services for people who are blind, low vision, deaf, or hard of hearing. It also works with Social Security on disability claims.
I Will Survive, Inc. is a nonprofit led by veterans. It helps military-connected families who are at higher risk for breast cancer or are living with it. Help includes money support such as paying housing costs, wellness workshops, and mentoring with a peer who has been through it.
