Frontline Response is a Christian nonprofit in Atlanta. It works with people who are homeless and with people caught in sex trafficking, and it runs programs for children. This winter it is teaming up with the City of Decatur and DeKalb County on a warming center for people without housing on dangerously cold nights.
Frontline Response, the new name of Atlanta Dream Center, helps men and women get out of homelessness and sex trafficking. They offer street outreach, case management, a warming center in cold weather, and free shuttle rides to job and life-skills programs. They also run free after-school programs for kids to help keep them safe.
The Georgia Department of Community Supervision watches over people on state parole or probation in Georgia. Its reentry staff help people leaving prison or under supervision find housing, work, and mentoring. The Atlanta field office serves Fulton County.
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church is a church in South Atlanta that has served its members and neighbors for over 100 years. It runs a food pantry on Fridays and offers help signing up for Medicaid. It also holds Sunday worship, in person and online, and a Wednesday evening Bible study.
Project Restart is an Atlanta nonprofit that helps people with criminal records and people who are locked up. It offers a free 12-week training program, one-on-one reentry support, a six-week program inside two facilities, and free online resource guides. The 2026 cohort is already full, and new details are expected in 2027.
Georgia Justice Project helps people in Georgia who have been affected by the criminal legal system. It offers free legal help, such as defense lawyers for some Fulton and DeKalb cases, record clearing, and help ending probation early. It also gives social service support and teaches the public about records, voting rights and work licenses. It cannot help everyone who applies.
Women on the Rise is led by women who have been in jail or prison. It helps women coming home with case management, monthly support circles, and links to housing, jobs and mental health care. It also organizes for fairer laws and helps people learn about their voting rights.
Game Changing Men is a group that supports masculine-presenting people, including transgender men, men of color, and men who have been in jail or prison. It offers support groups, workshops, a 24-week class on family violence for male-identified people, mentoring for people inside jails and prisons, a yearly retreat, and a youth leadership program.
GCADV is Georgia's statewide group for domestic violence help. It runs a free hotline that is open all day and night, and it works with more than 50 local programs across the state. It also trains those programs, helps Deaf and hard of hearing survivors, and works to change laws that affect survivors.
Atlanta Community Support Project is a group run by people who have been affected by the criminal legal system. It holds trainings and community events. It also connects volunteer lawyers with jailhouse lawyers to work on parole and post-conviction cases in Georgia.
This is the group of Narcotics Anonymous (NA) members that helps run NA meetings across Georgia. Its website points you to NA meetings in the Metro Atlanta, North, Middle and South Georgia areas. You can also call or email its volunteers with questions.
POD Society is a nonprofit that works to help people coming home from jail or prison succeed. It offers mentoring, thinking-skills programs, help finding work and housing, and mental health and substance use support for people still inside. It also holds community events on second chances and gun violence.
Prison Book Program is a nonprofit in Quincy, Massachusetts. It mails free books to people in prison who ask for them. It also offers a free legal guide and a free list of groups that help people in prison.
Parents Helping Parents is a Massachusetts group that helps parents and caregivers feel less alone.S. can call its free Parent Stress Line to talk with a trained listener. It also runs free parent support groups on Zoom, groups in Massachusetts communities, and groups for parents in Massachusetts jails and prisons.
Motherhood Beyond Bars helps babies born to mothers in Georgia prisons, and the relatives or friends who care for them. They give baby supplies, monthly diapers and support, and they help mothers plan to come home and be with their children again.
Face It TOGETHER is a nonprofit that gives peer coaching to people affected by alcohol or other drugs, and to their loved ones. Coaches have lived experience with addiction, and you do not have to quit using to get help. Coaching is by video or phone from any location, and in person in Colorado Springs and Sioux Falls.
This is the central service office for Sex Addicts Anonymous (SAA), a fellowship of people who help each other stop addictive sexual behavior. Its website helps people find meetings (in person, online and by phone), read SAA recovery materials, and reach outreach groups for women, LGBTQ+ members and others.
Books to Prisoners is a Seattle nonprofit that mails free books to people in prisons across the country. People in prison must send a letter with their name, prison ID number, and mailing address; the group says it does not take book requests by phone or email.
The Thurman Perry Foundation is a nonprofit based in Louisiana that works across the country. It helps women and girls affected by incarceration. It gives college scholarships, helps mothers pay rent or a mortgage, and sends free period products to women and girls in partner jails and prisons.
Ameelio is a national technology nonprofit. It builds free tools that let people in jails and prisons stay in touch with family, take classes, and prepare to come home. Families sign up online, and the facility must approve each contact.
