18 organizations
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Lapapoe helps families who care for children with special needs. They match families with screened care partners for respite care, in-home childcare, homeschool support, and help with needs like behavior, communication, sensory needs, incontinence, social interaction, and mobility.
4 services
Ninth District Opportunity, Inc. is a community action agency that helps low-income families with child development, housing, energy, and self-sufficiency services. Its Douglasville location at 3833 Longview Drive is listed as Douglas Head Start, offering Head Start and Georgia Pre-K services for young children.
6 services
Ninth District Opportunity, Inc. is a nonprofit community action agency that helps low-income families with child development, housing stability, utilities, and home energy needs. Its Allgood Head Start site in Marietta serves young children and families with early education, screenings, meals, and family support.
6 services
Safe Families for Children is a faith-based nonprofit that helps parents in crisis keep their children safe and keep the family together. Trained volunteers may host children for a short time, support parents, help with goals, and connect families to other community help. Parents keep custody of their children and can ask for them back at any time.
5 services
H.O.P.E, Inc. helps low-income single parents in Metro Atlanta stay in college and finish a two-year or four-year degree. They help with rent, childcare, budget coaching, counseling, and referrals to other resources, but their website says applications are currently closed while they work through a large queue.
7 services
Whitefoord, Inc. is an Atlanta nonprofit in the Edgewood area that now focuses on early childhood education through Whitefoord Early Learning Academy. Its health center services have merged with MedCura Health, but the clinic location is still open with many of the same services and providers.
8 services
Childcare Network Duluth Howell Ferry Road is a licensed early learning and child care center in Duluth. It serves children from infants through school age with daycare, Georgia Free Pre-K, before- and after-school care, meals, and transportation from select local elementary schools.
10 services
Our House helps families in metro Atlanta who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. They offer family shelter, rapid rehousing help, early childhood education, free health care, job training, and case management.
13 services
The website for this listing is for Inspiration Station Academy, a childcare and learning center in Southwest Atlanta. They serve children from infants through school age with preschool, Pre-K, summer camp, after-school care, daily meals, and education-focused activities.
Campbellton Road7 services
My Sister’s House is an Atlanta Mission overnight shelter for women and children who are homeless. It gives residents a safe place to sleep, meals, counseling, childcare, medical care, life skills classes, referrals, and job training when available. Women and children must start intake through Restoration House.
Marietta Street Artery7 services
This is the Allgood Head Start center in Marietta, run by Ninth District Opportunity, Inc., a nonprofit community action agency. It offers free Head Start, Early Head Start, and Georgia Pre-K programs that prepare young children from low-income Cobb County families for school. Families can pre-apply online or call the center to enroll.
3 services
Premier Academy, Inc. is a nonprofit early learning and child development center that has provided affordable, high-quality childcare in metro Atlanta since 1971. At its Renaissance center it cares for children from 6 weeks to 5 years old, runs a free Georgia Pre-K classroom, and offers an after-school program with free transportation for kids ages 5 to 12. It also connects families to free school-based mental health counseling and other family support services.
Downtown7 services
Bright from the Start is Georgia's state agency for early care and education, also called DECAL. It runs Georgia's free Pre-K program, licenses and inspects child care centers and home day cares, and helps families pay for child care through the CAPS subsidy program. Families can call its help line to find quality-rated child care near them and check if they qualify for assistance.
Downtown7 services
Gate City Day Nursery Association is a NAEYC-accredited nonprofit childcare and early education program in southwest Atlanta, in operation since 1905. At its Samuel M. Nabrit Center on Cascade Road, it offers full-day care and early learning for children from infancy through Pre-K, plus after-school care with academic support. Its goal is affordable, quality early childhood education for working families.
3 services
The organization at this website, address, and phone number is the Druid Hills Child Development Center (DHCDC), a nonprofit early-learning center in Midtown/Druid Hills Atlanta, not a mental health or crisis program. It serves about 125 children from infancy through Pre-K (with afterschool and camp options) across 11 classrooms. The center is NAEYC-accredited and holds Georgia's highest three-star Quality Rated rating, with teaching aligned to the Georgia Early Learning Standards.
4 services
The Academy at Harvest Rain is a licensed, faith-based childcare and education center in Fairburn that serves children from 6 weeks old through their teen years. They offer infant and toddler care, preschool and Georgia Pre-K, a private school program, after-school tutoring, and summer camps, with a focus on affordable, quality care for South Fulton families. They accept Georgia's subsidized childcare (CAPS) and participate in the state Quality Rated program.
8 services
The organization at this address, phone, and website is YWCA Greater Atlanta, a nonprofit founded in 1902 that works to eliminate racism and empower women, girls, and families. It runs an on-site early learning and childcare academy, job-skills and digital-literacy training, a breast-health program for underserved women, and teen and women's leadership programs. ('Atlanta Children's Day Shelter, Inc.' appears to be an outdated or incorrect name for this listing — the separate Atlanta Children's Shelter is a different organization at North Avenue Presbyterian Church.)
7 services
Bright from the Start is Georgia's state agency for early childhood care and education. It runs Georgia's free Pre-K program, licenses and inspects child care centers and home daycares, and helps low-income families pay for child care through the CAPS subsidy program. Families can use it to find quality-rated child care and check whether a provider is safe and licensed.
6 services
