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.
Empowerline is the free information and help line run by the Atlanta Regional Commission's Area Agency on Aging. Trained counselors help older adults, adults with disabilities, and caregivers in metro Atlanta understand their options and find services. They can also screen people who need help paying for services.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
ResCare Community Living in Atlanta helps adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who want residential support. People can get help in their own home, with a host family, or in a small group home. The office also certifies foster parents and places children sent by the Department of Family and Children Services.
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.
Claratel Behavioral Health is a public nonprofit in DeKalb County. It helps with mental health, substance use, and developmental disabilities, and it has more than 20 sites, including the Kirkwood clinic on Warren Street. It takes Medicaid and some other insurance plans. People with no insurance pay on a sliding scale based on income and family size.
The Division of Aging Services is part of Georgia's Department of Human Services. It helps older Georgians and adults with disabilities with help at home, meals, Medicare questions, legal help, and reports of abuse. Most services are set up through your local Area Agency on Aging, and one main phone line connects you.
Health Force of Georgia is a home care agency that has served metro Atlanta since 1986. Nurses and caregivers come to your home to help with things like bathing, dressing, medicine, memory care, and breaks for family caregivers. They also work with Georgia Medicaid waiver programs, and they start with a free home visit from a nurse.
Atlas Alliance, formerly called ISDD, helps grandparents, other relatives and close family friends who are raising children in metro Atlanta. It offers case management, support groups, education workshops, tutoring support and family support. The goal is to help children stay with family and out of foster care.