402 organizations
How family and children's help works in Atlanta
Help for families comes in pieces — grab each piece from its own place. Childcare costs: Georgia's CAPS program pays part of childcare for working families; Head Start and Georgia Pre-K are free for little ones if you qualify. Diapers and formula: diaper banks and WIC. After school and summer: Boys & Girls Clubs, the YMCA, and city recreation centers run low-cost programs with scholarships most parents never know to request — ask.
If your family is in crisis — about to lose housing with kids, or a safety problem at home — say that clearly when you call anywhere; family cases move differently and often faster.
What to expect when you call: questions about your kids' ages, your zip code, and your income. Waitlists are real for childcare; get on several at once.
Positive Growth, Inc. is a nonprofit in the Clarkston area that helps children, youth, adults, and families with residential care, counseling, substance use treatment, education support, and multicultural services. It runs a boys residential program, outpatient mental health and substance use services, programs for youth aging out of foster care or homelessness, and services for immigrants and refugees.
17 services
Oracle Health Foundation helps children get health care when families cannot pay for needed care, equipment, medicine, therapy, or travel related to treatment. It offers pediatric grants internationally and runs free school health programs for students in the greater Kansas City area. It is not a rent or housing assistance program.
4 services
Lifetime Adoption, Inc. is a licensed adoption agency with a main office in New Port Richey, Florida, and phone/text help nationwide. They help pregnant people and parents consider open adoption, choose an adoptive family, make an adoption plan, and get counseling, referrals, and support.
8 services
Military OneSource is a federal program for service members, National Guard and reserve members, Coast Guard members, military families, survivors, and some people leaving the military. It offers free 24/7 help by phone or secure chat for counseling, parenting, moving, money, taxes, jobs, special needs, elder care, and domestic abuse referrals.
17 services