The SAFE Center is part of Grady Health. It helps anyone affected by sexual violence. A trained team offers a crisis line that is open all day and night, support during medical exams in the emergency department, counseling, and help with legal choices.
DBHDD is the State of Georgia agency for mental health, substance use, and developmental disability services. It runs a 24-hour crisis phone line and points people to crisis centers, local providers, and regional field offices. It also handles court-ordered forensic evaluations and runs transitional housing and deaf services.
The Center for Health & Rehabilitation is a Fulton County site on Boulevard NE in Atlanta. It offers adult mental health and substance use treatment, such as assessments, psychiatric care, counseling, and help with medicine. Fulton County residents pay nothing for treatment, even without insurance.
This is Georgia Tech's counseling center for its students. It offers short-term counseling, crisis help, testing screenings, and peer coaching. Services are free for students who are signed up for classes this semester.
River Edge Behavioral Health helps people with mental illness and substance use problems. It offers counseling, groups, medicine care, crisis help, and case management for children, teens, and adults. It has sites in Macon, Milledgeville, and Atlanta, and no one is turned away because they cannot pay.
Claratel Behavioral Health is a public nonprofit in DeKalb County. It helps with mental health, substance use, and developmental disabilities, and it has more than 20 sites, including the Kirkwood clinic on Warren Street. It takes Medicaid and some other insurance plans. People with no insurance pay on a sliding scale based on income and family size.
CAPS is the counseling center for Emory University students. It offers free, private short-term counseling, relationship counseling, and groups, and it helps students find longer-term care off campus. Students can call any time of day or night to talk with a clinician.
This is the state agency for mental health, addiction, and developmental disability services in Georgia. Its Family Support Services program helps families who care at home for a person with an intellectual or developmental disability. Staff help families make a plan and find supports like respite, training, and equipment.
LiveLikeMike Homes runs recovery (sober living) homes and transitional homes in Atlanta. The homes are drug-free and have clear rules and daily support. You can ask about a room by filling out a short online inquiry.
Claratel Behavioral Health, which used to be the DeKalb Community Service Board, is a public nonprofit in DeKalb County. It offers help with mental health, substance use, and developmental disabilities, for children and adults. People without insurance can pay on a sliding scale based on income and family size.
Claratel Behavioral Health is a public nonprofit in DeKalb County. It used to be called DeKalb Community Service Board. It offers mental health care, help for drug and alcohol use, support for people with developmental disabilities, and services for children and teens. It takes Medicaid, Medicare, and some other insurance, and it has a sliding fee scale for people without insurance.
Anchor Hospital is a 122-bed hospital near the Atlanta airport for mental health and substance use care. It helps teens, adults, and older adults with hospital stays and with day or evening programs where people go home at night. Its assessments are free and open any time of day.
This is Fulton County's behavioral health and developmental disabilities department. It runs outpatient mental health care for adults, care for children, teens and young adults, a youth clubhouse, and day programs for adults with developmental disabilities. Care is at several sites around the county, and some is available by telehealth.
This is Georgia's state agency for mental health, substance use, and developmental disability services. It manages services that other community providers deliver, and its regional field offices help people find and sign up for them. In a crisis you can call or text 988, or call the Georgia Crisis and Access Line.
This is the Fulton County department for mental health care and for services for adults with developmental disabilities. It runs counseling sites for adults, children, teens and young adults, and day programs at three training centers. For any of its services, you can call the main number to get started.
This Fulton County department runs behavioral health care for adults, children and teens. It also runs day services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Care is offered at service centers around the county, and you can call the main number to ask about any service.
This group helps survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in the Atlanta area. It has 24-hour hotlines, a private safe house, support groups, and legal help. It is changing its name to In Safe Company, so you may see either name.
Georgia's Families in Transition is a family-owned social service agency with an office in Decatur. It offers counseling, several kinds of assessments, parenting classes, and skills training for families and individuals. It also lists crisis help, mentoring, and medication administration.
Frontline Response is a Christian nonprofit in Atlanta. It works with people who are homeless and with people caught in sex trafficking, and it runs programs for children. This winter it is teaming up with the City of Decatur and DeKalb County on a warming center for people without housing on dangerously cold nights.
The Link Counseling Center in Sandy Springs has offered low-cost counseling since 1971. It has therapy for individuals, couples, and families. It also runs free grief groups for children and teens and for people who lost someone to suicide, trains therapists, and welcomes volunteers.