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.
Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency is a state agency that helps Georgians with disabilities get ready for work, find jobs, and live on their own. A counselor works with you to make a job plan, and help can include training, job coaching, and equipment. The agency also handles Social Security disability decisions and has services for people who are blind, Deaf, or hard of hearing.
Bobby Dodd Institute is an Atlanta nonprofit that helps people with disabilities and their families. It connects caregivers to state-funded Family Support services and offers counseling and advice about work and benefits. It also runs job-skills and leadership programs for teens and young adults.
Exploring Your Purpose helps people get ready for work, find jobs, and keep them. This includes people with mental or physical disabilities, young adults, seniors, and veterans. They also offer therapy, case management, housing referrals, and a food pantry and clothing closet.
Bobby Dodd Institute (BDI) is an Atlanta nonprofit that helps people with disabilities and their families. It offers counseling, job training, help with Social Security benefits, family support funding, and ways to volunteer. The Robert J. Freeman Campus on Marietta Blvd NW is its main site.
disABILITY LINK is a Center for Independent Living, which means it is run by and for people with disabilities. It serves Metro Atlanta and nearby counties. It offers peer support, skills training, advocacy, job help, assistive technology, travel training, and help applying for SNAP food benefits.
This is the Goodwill of North Georgia career center at 2160 Metropolitan Parkway SW. It sits at the same address as a Goodwill store and donation center. You can look for jobs, use computers, get help with a resume and cover letter, and work with a career coach. Goodwill says its career centers are free and open to the public.
Georgia Advocacy Office is a nonprofit that protects the rights of people with disabilities and mental illness in Georgia. Its advocates look into abuse and neglect, work to help people get services in their own communities, and can file complaints or go to court when talking does not fix a problem. You can call to speak with a staff member who can point you to the right help.
First Step Staffing is a nonprofit staffing agency that has helped people facing barriers to work since 2007, including people who are homeless, veterans, and people coming home from incarceration. It places job seekers in light-industrial jobs, helps with rides to work, and offers coaching. Most people start work within 24 to 48 hours of applying.
The Central Training Center is one of three day training centers run by Fulton County for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It offers group training in daily living, social skills, getting around, and community life. To use it, a person first needs a Georgia NOW or COMP waiver.
The Georgia Department of Labor is the state agency for jobs and unemployment. People use its website, its phone line, and local Career Centers to look for work, file for unemployment benefits, get information about child labor and youth work permits, and report unemployment fraud. Employers also use it for hiring, taxes, and claims.
College Park Regional Health Center is a clinic of the Fulton County Board of Health. It offers vaccines, family planning, teen health visits, travel health advice, refugee health screening, and SSI disability screening. It is open Monday to Friday.
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.
Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency is a state agency that helps Georgians with disabilities get a job, keep a job, or go back to work. You work with a counselor on a plan, and help can include training, job coaching, and work equipment. It also has services for people who are blind, low vision, Deaf, or hard of hearing, and it supports independent living.
The Fulton County Board of Health runs public health clinics across Fulton County. They offer shots, WIC, HIV and sexual health care, family planning, teen health, TB tests, and birth and death records. Services are different at each location, so call before you go.
Neighborhood Union Health Center is a Fulton County Board of Health clinic on Sunset Avenue in northwest Atlanta. It offers vaccines, WIC, women's health and family planning, sexual health testing and PrEP, teen health services, and a drug user health program called SafeWorks. It is a public health clinic, so it does not list full primary care, dental care or behavioral health treatment.
Central Outreach and Advocacy Center is a downtown Atlanta nonprofit that helps adults who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Staff help with IDs, birth certificates, Social Security cards, food stamps, Medicaid, SSI/SSDI, and job readiness classes. Partner groups also come on site for health care, eye clinics, and more.
Georgia STABLE is Georgia's tax-advantaged savings program for people with disabilities. It is run through the Georgia Office of the State Treasurer. A STABLE account lets you save and invest money for disability-related costs like health care, housing, education, and transportation. You can do this without losing benefits such as SSI or Medicaid.
This Atlanta-area nonprofit serves Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and DeafBlind people across Georgia. It offers ASL classes, job support, equipment programs, youth camps and programs, and a community center with public videophones. It also holds social events for the Deaf community.
Arms Wide Open helps people with disabilities and chronic illnesses, including older people who need care at home. It offers case management, loans of medical equipment, home care, and help signing up for benefits like Medicaid and Medicare.
