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.
Bridges Atlanta helps young adults with disabilities, ages 17 to 26, get ready for a job, find one, and keep it. A Youth Employment Specialist works with each person one-on-one and stays involved for the first year on the job. It is free for participants and families.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tommy Nobis Center, which also uses the Nobis Works name, helps people with disabilities get ready for work, find jobs, and keep them. It offers job placement for adults, school and summer programs for students, a job training program called The Academy, and work-skills projects with partner companies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
GVRA is a Georgia state agency that helps people with disabilities get ready for work, find a job, keep a job, or go back to work. You work with a counselor, and help can include job training, job coaching, work equipment and changes to a worksite. It also has services for people who are blind, low vision, Deaf, DeafBlind or hard of hearing.
The Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency is a state agency that helps Georgians with disabilities get, keep, or return to a job and live on their own. It offers job counseling, training, job placement, and equipment, plus services for people who are blind, low vision, deaf, or hard of hearing. It also works with Social Security on disability claims.
Team Management 2000 is a nonprofit clinic group that started in New Jersey and now has an office in Decatur. It runs programs for substance use recovery, mental health care, HIV/AIDS testing, and support for youth, LGBTQ people, and people leaving prison. Call the Decatur office to ask which services you can get there.
First Step Staffing is a nonprofit staffing agency that helps people who face barriers to work, including people who are homeless, veterans, and people who were in jail or prison. It places people in light-industrial jobs, offers job coaching, and helps with rides to work. It also has a team that helps people who are homeless get disability benefits.
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 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.
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.
