This is the state agency for mental health, addiction, and developmental disability services in Georgia. Its Family Support Services program helps families who care at home for a person with an intellectual or developmental disability. Staff help families make a plan and find supports like respite, training, and equipment.
United Cerebral Palsy of Georgia helps adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It runs community homes and host homes, day programs, and help at home for families. It also offers nursing support, behavior support, and advocacy to people in its services.
The Care Girl Agency is a Georgia care agency started by Alexandria Edwards. It helps families find the right care for older adults, people with disabilities, and medically fragile children. A personal care advisor talks with you and matches you with care or a care facility.
Inspiritus (once called Lutheran Services of Georgia) helps people whose lives have been upended. It helps new refugees and immigrants settle in, find jobs and get legal help. It also finds foster homes for children with serious medical or behavior needs, and host homes for people with developmental disabilities. After natural disasters, it helps families rebuild.
IntegriCare sends nurses and caregivers to people's homes in Georgia. Its main focus is children with serious medical needs, from newborns up to age 21, but the site also says it serves adults. It works with Medicaid, including the Georgia Pediatric Program, and with private insurance.
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.
Claratel Behavioral Health, which used to be the DeKalb Community Service Board, is a public nonprofit in DeKalb County. It offers help with mental health, substance use, and developmental disabilities, for children and adults. People without insurance can pay on a sliding scale based on income and family size.
Claratel Behavioral Health is a public nonprofit in DeKalb County. It used to be called DeKalb Community Service Board. It offers mental health care, help for drug and alcohol use, support for people with developmental disabilities, and services for children and teens. It takes Medicaid, Medicare, and some other insurance, and it has a sliding fee scale for people without insurance.
United Cerebral Palsy of Georgia helps adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including cerebral palsy, autism and Down syndrome. It runs small group homes and host homes, gives help to families who care for someone at home, and runs day programs. It also offers nursing, behavior, and advocacy support to the people in its services.
Rosaleana's is a nonprofit in Georgia that helps people with housing, food, jobs, and learning. It also supports people with developmental disabilities and young adults leaving foster care. Adults can get help with transportation vouchers, job training, reading and GED classes, and a food pantry.
Claratel Behavioral Health is a public nonprofit in DeKalb County. It helps children, teens, and adults with mental health, substance use, and developmental disabilities. It takes Medicaid, Medicare, and some other insurance, and uses a sliding fee scale based on income and family size if you have no insurance.
3Keys is a nonprofit that owns and runs supportive apartment buildings in Atlanta and DeKalb County. Adults who have been homeless, many living with mental illness or other disabilities, get their own furnished apartment. Staff offer help on site, such as case management, rides, and health screenings. People first sign up through Coordinated Entry by calling 211.
Claratel Behavioral Health is a nonprofit in DeKalb County that used to be called DeKalb Community Service Board. It helps with mental health, substance use, and developmental disabilities. It takes Medicaid and Medicare, and people without insurance can use a sliding fee scale based on income and family size.
The Atlanta Regional Commission is a regional planning agency for metro Atlanta. It runs services for older adults, people with disabilities, and caregivers. It also runs WorkSource Atlanta Regional, which helps job seekers with career help and training. It plans transportation and communities with local governments and helps people find ways to commute.
The Georgia Department of Community Health is a state agency. It runs health coverage programs like Medicaid, PeachCare for Kids, and the State Health Benefit Plan. It also oversees licensed health care facilities, with a website to look them up and a way to file complaints.
Empowerline is run by the Atlanta Regional Commission. It helps older adults, people with disabilities, and caregivers in metro Atlanta. You can call and talk to a certified counselor for free, or search a database of local services.
Community Friendship is an Atlanta nonprofit for adults with long-term mental illness. It runs daily skills groups, peer support, job help, and supportive housing such as group homes and apartments. It has served people for over 50 years.
DBHDD is the State of Georgia agency for mental health, substance use, and developmental disability services. It runs a 24-hour crisis phone line and points people to crisis centers, local providers, and regional field offices. It also handles court-ordered forensic evaluations and runs transitional housing and deaf services.
Miralta Home Care sends nurses and caregivers to your home to help children under 21 who have serious medical needs. It is a Georgia Pediatric Program (GAPP) provider, so Miralta helps families apply and then provides home nursing and personal care. Miralta only works with children and their families.
The Georgia Department of Community Health runs Georgia Medicaid. Its website explains Medicaid programs and waiver programs that help older people and people with disabilities get care at home or in the community instead of in a nursing home. Each program has its own way to apply.
