123 organizations
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Tapestri Inc. helps immigrant and refugee survivors of domestic violence, sexual abuse, human trafficking, and exploitation in Georgia. They offer case management, crisis counseling, legal advocacy, referrals, interpretation, and training, but they are not a shelter and do not provide onsite housing.
6 services
Southern Center for Human Rights is a nonprofit law and advocacy group in Atlanta. It helps people affected by the criminal legal system in the Deep South by doing legal representation, lawsuits, policy advocacy, court watching, and public education.
Downtown9 services
Georgia Justice Project helps Georgians who have been touched by the criminal legal system. They provide free legal help and social services, including criminal defense in Fulton and DeKalb, record clearing, reentry help, probation help, licensing guidance, and education about voting rights.
Sweet Auburn10 services
Raksha, Inc. is a Georgia nonprofit that helps South Asian American survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking, and family violence. They offer free, confidential support, counseling, safety planning, legal and victim advocacy, language help, referrals, and some emergency support like food or housing help when available.
10 services
Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network, or GAIN, is a nonprofit that helps immigrant survivors of crime and persecution. They provide free immigration legal help, connect clients with social services, and support people seeking safety in Georgia.
7 services
Ahimsa House helps people in Georgia who are escaping domestic violence and need a safe plan for their pets. They run a 24-hour crisis line, arrange temporary safe shelter and care for animals, help with pet transport, supplies, veterinary care, and safety planning.
10 services
The Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity is part of HUD, the federal housing agency. It helps people report housing discrimination and enforces fair housing laws when someone is treated unfairly because of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, family status, disability, or retaliation.
Downtown5 services
Georgia Department of Human Services Division of Aging Services is the state aging agency for Georgia. It helps older adults, adults with disabilities, caregivers, and families find services like meals, in-home help, Medicare counseling, elder abuse reporting, legal help, and long-term care advocacy.
12 services
The Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office Victim Witness Program helps crime victims and witnesses during criminal court cases. It gives case updates, court support, referrals for counseling and support groups, help with victim impact statements, restitution information, property return help, and information about Georgia crime victim compensation.
6 services
Anti-Defamation League Southeast is the regional office of ADL serving Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, and Tennessee. It responds to antisemitism, bias, bigotry, extremism, and hate incidents, offers education programs for schools and workplaces, advocates for policies, and may connect victims of antisemitism or extremism with legal help.
12 services
Housing Justice League is an Atlanta housing justice group led by renters, homeowners, and community members. They help tenants learn their rights, fight eviction and unsafe housing, form tenant groups, and connect with free legal help.
Downtown7 services
Unidos Georgia is a Spanish-language community resource site and coalition led by Latino Community Fund Georgia. It helps Latino, immigrant, undocumented, and Spanish-speaking families find health screenings, resource referrals, Know Your Rights information, and trusted organizations across Georgia.
7 services
Atlanta Legal Aid Society gives free civil legal help to people who cannot afford a lawyer. The Fulton County/Downtown Headquarters helps with issues like housing, family safety, benefits, consumer problems, seniors, disability rights, veterans, and health-related legal needs.
12 services
Atlanta CASA trains and supports volunteer advocates for abused and neglected children in Fulton County foster care. Volunteers gather information, speak up in juvenile court, and help children move toward safe, permanent homes.
11 services
The Housing Court Assistance Center is a walk-in legal clinic run by Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation for Atlanta tenants whose landlords are taking them to court. They help tenants understand eviction papers, tenant rights, court steps, and how to prepare documents or responses.
2 services
Promise Place helps people who are experiencing domestic violence. They offer a 24-hour crisis hotline, emergency shelter, legal advocacy, support groups, safety planning, and prevention education.
9 services
GeorgiaLegalAid.org is a statewide legal-help website, not a walk-in office. It gives free legal information, self-help materials, online forms, and referrals to legal aid programs that help people in Georgia with civil legal problems.
4 services
Fulton County Courts Justice Resource Center is a self-help legal resource center inside the Fulton County Court Complex. It helps people who are representing themselves find legal information, court forms, legal research tools, referrals, language help, and limited attorney consultations by appointment.
Glenrose Heights12 services
The Wage and Hour Division is a U.S. Department of Labor office that enforces federal labor laws. The Atlanta District Office helps workers and employers with pay, overtime, child labor, family leave, farm worker rules, and other wage and hour protections.
7 services
The Wage and Hour Division is a federal labor office that helps workers and employers understand wage, hour, leave, child labor, and other workplace rules. The Atlanta District Office can help with questions and complaints about unpaid wages, overtime, child labor, family and medical leave, and related federal labor laws.
5 services
