36 organizations
We are still writing the honest guide for this category. In the meantime, the organizations below are ready to help.
Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered, also called FORCE, is a national nonprofit for people and families facing hereditary cancer risk. They help by phone and online with peer support, support meetings, webinars, genetic cancer information, and tools to find resources and health providers.
14 services
Advocator Advantage is a nationwide Brown & Brown service that helps people with Social Security Disability Insurance, Medicare plan choices, and returning to work while on disability benefits. They help by phone and online with eligibility checks, forms, records, appeals, benefit questions, and Medicare enrollment guidance.
5 services
Patient Advocate Foundation is a national nonprofit that helps people with serious, chronic, and life-threatening illnesses get and pay for care. They offer free case management, help with insurance denials and benefits, co-pay help, small financial grants, education tools, and resource lists.
18 services
GoHealth is a health insurance marketplace focused on Medicare. Licensed agents help people compare Medicare plans, review doctors, medicines, costs, and benefits, and enroll by phone or online at no charge to the caller.
5 services
Blood Cancer United is the new name of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. It helps people with blood cancer and their families with free information, financial aid programs, clinical trial help, support groups, and advocacy.
17 services
Project HEAL is a national nonprofit that helps people get eating disorder care when cost, insurance, or discrimination blocks treatment. It offers treatment placement, cash help, short-term case management, virtual meal support, and a BIPOC community care program.
7 services
Triage Cancer is a national nonprofit that helps people with cancer, caregivers, advocates, and health care workers understand legal, money, insurance, work, and planning issues after a cancer diagnosis. They offer free education, online events, written guides, Spanish resources, and one-on-one legal and financial navigation, but they do not give legal representation or direct financial aid.
9 services
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 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.
9 services
The American Diabetes Association helps people prevent and manage diabetes. Its Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina office shares education, connects people to diabetes resources, supports local events, and helps people get involved in advocacy and fundraising.
Pine Hills12 services
Zion Hill CDC is a faith-based nonprofit in East Point that helps families in South Fulton and metro Atlanta avoid homelessness and poverty. They offer help paying rent, mortgage, and utility bills, food gift cards, emergency motel stays and rapid rehousing, direct cash payments, and free health insurance enrollment.
6 services
CHAMPVA (the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs) is a federal health insurance program run by the VA's Office of Community Care. It helps pay the cost of doctor visits, hospital care, medicine, and other medical services for the spouses, children, and surviving family members of veterans who are permanently and totally disabled or who died from a service-connected condition. It is a national mail- and phone-based program, not a local Atlanta office, but Atlanta-area families can apply and use the benefits with local providers.
3 services
St. Vincent de Paul Georgia runs a free, fully licensed charitable pharmacy for people who can't afford their medicine. If you live in Georgia, are 18 or older, have no insurance, and have a low income, they give you maintenance medications for things like diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, and mental health conditions at no cost. They can deliver your medicine for free nearby or mail it anywhere in Georgia, and they also help with Medicaid sign-up, free over-the-counter medicine, and medical equipment.
7 services
Care Guide Services is a phone- and online-based health navigator that helps returning citizens and people on supervision sign up for low- or no-cost ACA health insurance. They also help you find doctors, mental and behavioral health care, dental care, and other benefits like Medicare Extra Help and Social Security disability. They are not based in Atlanta and have no local office; they serve people by phone in English and Spanish across many states, including Georgia.
6 services
Reentry Care is a national health and human services company (based in Austin, Texas) that helps people leaving jail or prison sign up for free health insurance. Trained, licensed helpers walk you through Medicaid, Medicare, or ACA Marketplace plans, often in about 15 minutes, so you can get a doctor, mental health care, substance use treatment, and medicine right after release. They work by phone and online across all 50 states, including Georgia, partnering with jails, prisons, probation/parole, and reentry programs.
2 services
The Community Health Insurance Program (CHIProgram) helps people who were recently released from jail or prison sign up for low-cost or no-cost health insurance through healthcare.gov. They guide you through the application by phone and serve people in Georgia and several other states. You must reach out within 60 days of your release to qualify for the special enrollment period.
1 service
