This ministry serves homeless and less fortunate men, women, children and veterans around Metro Atlanta. It offers counseling, job outreach, free classes, and gives out clothes, shoes, blankets and holiday meals and toys. It also gives referrals for emergency housing.
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.
Covenant House Georgia helps young people ages 18 to 24 who are homeless or escaping trafficking. It runs a youth shelter, housing programs, street outreach, a drop-in center, health and counseling care, and help with school and jobs. Every young person gets a case manager.
Lost-n-Found Youth is an Atlanta nonprofit that helps LGBTQ+ young people ages 18 to 25 who are homeless or in need. It runs a 24/7 support line, a drop-in center with meals, showers and laundry, emergency and transitional housing, street outreach, and a thrift store.
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.
Gateway Center is a homeless service center at 275 Pryor Street SW in downtown Atlanta. It runs shelter and housing programs, a drop-in Engagement Center, a place to start a housing assessment, street outreach, and job and recovery help. Many programs are for men, and families can use the Engagement Center and housing assessments.
CHRIS180 is an Atlanta nonprofit that has served children, adults and families since 1981. It offers counseling, foster care and adoption help, and housing and a drop-in center for young adults facing homelessness. You can call the helpline or fill out an intake form to get started.
Crossroads Community Ministries helps people who have no home or may lose their home. Staff help with case management, ID and birth certificate help, a mailing address, MARTA passes, and rent, utility and move-in costs. A weekday meal is served to people who get these services.
Covenant House Georgia helps young people ages 18 to 24 who are homeless or escaping trafficking. It has a crisis shelter, longer-term apartment housing, health care and counseling, school and job help, and street outreach. A young person who needs shelter can call the youth line.
PAD is an Atlanta nonprofit that offers help instead of police response or jail for people dealing with extreme poverty, substance use, or mental health problems. You can ask for a PAD team by calling 311. PAD also gives case management to people diverted by law enforcement or with open court cases.
Church of the Common Ground is a church with no building. It meets outside in downtown Atlanta, and everyone is welcome. It holds Sunday worship in Woodruff Park, morning prayer, Bible study, and a weekly foot clinic for people living on the streets. Volunteers and visiting groups can join in.
Mercy Care is a health center at 424 Decatur Street SE in Atlanta. It offers doctor visits, dental care, eye care, and mental health care in one place, and everyone is welcome no matter their insurance or income. People without insurance can pay on a sliding fee scale based on income, and walk-ins are welcome. Outreach teams also bring care to people living outside.
SafeHouse Outreach is a downtown Atlanta group that has worked with people in need since 1982. It reaches people through street outreach and basic help like showers, laundry and ID help. It also offers housing programs, help with back rent and utilities, and a job program.
StandUp for Kids – Atlanta is a local chapter of a national group that helps young people who are homeless or at risk of losing their housing. Trained volunteers mentor students at school twice a month. Young people can also call a non-emergency helpline and get a call back within 24 hours.
The Grove CDC is the nonprofit partner of The Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church in Atlanta. It helps people in crisis with free food, referrals, and emergency money help when funds are available. It also works on housing, education, and jobs for people in Metro Atlanta, including Grove Gardens at East Lake senior apartments.
Intown Cares helps people in intown Atlanta who are hungry or do not have a home. It runs a food pantry where you pick your own groceries on Tuesdays and Saturdays, and it brings groceries to some neighbors. Its outreach workers help people with long-term homelessness get papers and move into permanent housing.
Intown Cares works to end homelessness and hunger in Intown Atlanta. It runs a pantry where you choose your own groceries twice a week, and it delivers food to people who cannot get there. Its team also helps people who are homeless move into housing and keeps helping after they move in.
Mercy Care is a health center in Atlanta. It has served people facing barriers to care since 1985. Everyone is welcome, no matter their insurance or income. It offers checkups, dental, vision, mental health care, and a pharmacy at its clinics and on mobile medical coaches.
A Home For Everyone In DeKalb helps people in DeKalb County who have no stable home or could lose theirs. It can help pay deposits and other move-in costs for people who have steady income but little savings. It also runs a group home for three men and gives out supplies like sleeping bags and MARTA cards in bad weather.
Mad Housers is a mostly volunteer-run nonprofit in Atlanta. It builds small, simple survival shelters called huts for people who are living outside. The huts give people protection from the weather, privacy, and a safe place to keep their things.