Frontline Response, once known as the Atlanta Dream Center, helps people escape sex trafficking and homelessness in Atlanta. Staff do street outreach, case management, and run a free winter warming shelter with shuttle rides during very cold weather. They also run a youth prevention program that mentors at-risk kids ages 3 to 12 in Atlanta neighborhoods.
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.
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 is a nonprofit that gives free legal help to people in Georgia who have been touched by the criminal legal system. It defends some people charged in Fulton and DeKalb counties and helps people clean up old records so it is easier to get a job or a home. It also helps with ending felony probation early, job license problems, and questions about voting.
Mission Agape is an independent charity that began in 2008 with Korean-American groups in Duluth. Volunteers make sandwiches and lunches each week that go to people who are homeless through The Salvation Army and Atlanta Mission. In the fall the group has also bought new warm jackets for people who are homeless.
Motherhood Beyond Bars is a Georgia group that helps women who are pregnant or have babies while in prison. It also helps the family members and friends who care for those babies. It gives diapers, baby supplies, money for calls and emails with mothers, and help planning for life after prison.
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.
This is the Marietta Area of Narcotics Anonymous. It is a group of people in recovery who help each other stay off drugs. Anyone who wants to stop using drugs can come to a meeting, and the meetings have no dues or fees.
