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.
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 state office that guides Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education (CTAE) in Georgia public middle and high schools. It supports more than 130 career pathways in 17 career clusters, student clubs like FFA, FBLA and SkillsUSA, and ways for students to earn work credentials. Students and families sign up through their own school or district, not through this state office.
WorkSource Atlanta is the City of Atlanta's free job center. It is now part of the city's Department of Labor and Employment Services, and it was once called the Atlanta Workforce Development Agency. It helps Atlanta residents find work with career coaching, job training, and work-readiness classes. It also helps people who lost their jobs and young people looking for work.
Our House is an Atlanta nonprofit, started in 1988, that helps families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. It runs a family shelter, free early childhood education for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years, and job training in education and culinary fields. Its health clinic, Our House Health, gives no-cost care to children and adults who face barriers like no insurance or unstable housing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Morehouse School of Medicine is a medical school in Atlanta.L. Clinic, a free health and wellness clinic that sees patients by appointment on Saturdays and some Wednesday evenings. The school also runs science and health career programs for students from grade 5 through college.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta matches kids ages 8 to 16 with caring adult volunteer mentors for one-to-one friendship and support. The program is free to families and serves 11 metro Atlanta counties. Adults 18 and older can sign up to become a mentor, and parents can ask to enroll a child.
At-Promise Southwest Boys & Girls Club is a youth club on Campbellton Road in southwest Atlanta. It is part of Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta. Kids and teens ages 6 to 18 get a safe place after school and in the summer, with programs on school success, healthy living, and leadership. The club also hosts activities that help young people and police talk with each other.
WorkSource Atlanta is the City of Atlanta's job training and career office. It helps city residents get career counseling, job readiness classes, and federal money for job training. It also points adults 18 and older to free GED prep classes, and it runs a youth program for ages 16 to 24.
RE:IMAGINE is an Atlanta nonprofit that helps young people start careers in film and media. It offers workshops, a one-year paid apprenticeship, a summer filmmaking fellowship, and school programs. It also hires out its youth apprentices for video and media work.
City of Refuge is a faith-based campus on Atlanta's Westside that helps people and families move out of crisis. It offers housing for women, children, and men, free job training, youth programs, a school, a campus kitchen, and an on-site health clinic. For housing, call and leave a message, because walk-ins are not taken.
Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Atlanta helps people with criminal records prepare for work and find steady jobs. It offers paid temporary work, job training, coaching, and support after hiring. Its current office is at 261 Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard; older directories list 938 Peachtree Street.
