Money & Benefits

This is a Georgia state office that regulates insurance companies, handles insurance complaints and fraud reports, and inspects buildings for fire safety. It also runs fire safety education, arson reporting, school drill reporting, and caregiver fire safety training across Georgia.

Lindridge/Martin Manor10 services

Georgia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council is a state agency that supports Georgia's criminal justice system and victim services. It helps victims of violent crime apply for money for medical bills, counseling, funeral costs, lost income, and other approved costs, and it also manages grants, research, human trafficking coordination, and victim-service programs across Georgia.

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The Georgia Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division is the state office that handles consumer protection issues in Georgia. It reviews complaints about unfair or deceptive business practices, watches for scams, enforces consumer laws, and teaches people how to avoid fraud.

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Georgia DFCS is a state agency that helps Georgia families apply for benefits and get child and family support. It handles SNAP food benefits, Medicaid applications, TANF cash help, energy assistance, child abuse reports, foster care, and adoption services.

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Central Outreach and Advocacy Center helps adults who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in downtown Atlanta. They help people get IDs, birth certificates, Social Security cards, benefits, referrals, mail, work support, and basic items needed to move forward.

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Empowerline is the Atlanta Regional Commission's aging and disability resource connection for metro Atlanta. They help older adults, people with disabilities, and caregivers find services like care at home, meals, transportation, health support, senior centers, and other community resources.

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The Salvation Army Atlanta Temple Corps is a faith-based community center on North Druid Hills Road. It helps neighbors in need with free groceries from its food pantry, emergency assistance, clothing, and family and youth programs. Anyone facing hardship can ask for help, no matter their age or background.

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The Urban League of Greater Atlanta helps people build stable, better lives through jobs, money, housing, and small-business support. They offer job training and career help, housing and homeownership counseling, emergency assistance, financial coaching, entrepreneur support, and a re-entry program for people returning from incarceration. They serve youth, adults, families, and returning citizens across Metro Atlanta.

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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

Duluth Cooperative Ministry (Hands of Christ), known as the Duluth Co-op, is a community food pantry serving families in Duluth ZIP codes 30096 and 30097. They give out free groceries — fresh produce, bread, meat, and canned goods — by appointment twice a month, and also offer limited rent and utility bill help, holiday meals, school supplies, ESOL classes, and job referrals. (Note: this listing was filed as 'Food Finder GA' but is actually the Duluth Co-op.)

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Toco Hills Community Alliance is a food and clothing pantry in northeast Atlanta with the motto "Neighbors Helping Neighbors." They give free groceries (canned goods, fresh produce, bread, meat, dairy) once a week to families with low or no income, no appointment needed. They also serve to-go hot lunches to people who are homeless and help people sign up for SNAP, Medicaid, and WIC.

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St. Vincent de Paul Georgia is a Catholic charity that has helped Georgians in need since 1903. The Council Office is the central headquarters that runs the statewide assistance line, a free pharmacy, food distribution, and emergency help with rent, utilities, and other basic needs. When you call, you give your ZIP code and are connected to the local volunteer chapter for your area.

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The Salvation Army Metro Atlanta Area Command is a faith-based charity that helps people across 13 metro-Atlanta counties who are facing a crisis. They offer emergency help with rent, utilities, and food, shelter for people who are homeless, youth programs, and holiday and disaster assistance. To get financial or rent help, you call to set up an appointment at one of their assistance centers.

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NETWorks Cooperative Ministry is a group of churches in the Tucker, Northlake, and Embry Hills area that helps neighbors going through a crisis. They run a food pantry that gives out groceries, and they also help pay rent and utility bills so families can avoid eviction. NOTE: this is NOT the same as the food pantry at 6315 Roswell Rd in Sandy Springs (that address belongs to Solidarity Sandy Springs); NETWorks is in Tucker.

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The Latin American Association (LAA) is a nonprofit that helps Latino immigrants and their families build a stable life in metro Atlanta. At its Atlanta Outreach Center on Buford Highway, they offer immigration legal help, English and adult classes, job and money help, youth programs, and family support that includes a food pantry and rent or utility help. They also host free health screenings and help people sign up for benefits like Medicaid and food stamps.

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Hosea Helps (formerly Hosea Feed the Hungry) is a long-running Atlanta nonprofit that fights hunger and homelessness. They hand out emergency food and water, help people apply for food stamps, and screen families to see if they qualify for rent and utility help. They also run big holiday meal events and programs for children, women, and people facing homelessness.

8 services