60 organizations
We are still writing the honest guide for this category. In the meantime, the organizations below are ready to help.
MARTA is the public transit agency for metro Atlanta. It runs buses, trains, streetcar service, paratransit, on-demand MARTA Reach vans, and fare programs that help seniors, people with disabilities, Medicare cardholders, students, schools, employers, and riders get around.
Downtown10 services
Georgia Parent Support Network is a family-run nonprofit that supports children and youth with mental health, emotional, and behavioral needs and their families. They offer peer support, parent education, advocacy, therapeutic foster care, youth programs, and training for parent and youth peer specialists.
Capitol View10 services
I Care America, formerly I Care Atlanta Inc., is a nonprofit food relief group in Doraville. It picks up donated food from stores and businesses and gives groceries, cooked food, and resource connections to people who are food insecure or in crisis.
7 services
The Salvation Army Marietta Corps is a faith-based community center in Marietta. It helps people with food, utility and rent or mortgage assistance, homeless basic needs, youth programs, seasonal help, and worship services.
11 services
Atlanta Dream Center appears to now operate publicly as Frontline Response, a faith-based Atlanta nonprofit. They help people leave sex trafficking and homelessness through a 24/7 trafficking rescue hotline, short-term safe home, outreach, case management, support lines, and youth prevention programs.
Old Fourth Ward10 services
Mercy Care is a health center in Atlanta that helps people get medical and social services, especially people who face barriers to care. The Gateway Center clinic offers adult primary care, behavioral health, psychiatry, and mental health and substance use support.
Downtown6 services
Pelagie Foundation is a nonprofit that helps people and families with basic needs, housing support, health care access, job readiness, and documents. Its website says it especially serves people facing homelessness, veterans, survivors of domestic violence, low-income families, immigrants, and patients across Georgia.
12 services
Central Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian church in downtown Atlanta across from the State Capitol. It worships on Sundays, serves a Sunday breakfast for neighbors experiencing homelessness, and supports nearby homelessness services, housing advocacy, and partner ministries.
Downtown8 services
Cascade United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church with Southwest Atlanta and Midtown Atlanta campuses. It offers worship, Bible study, community ministries, rent and utility help through its Community Fund, support for people experiencing homelessness, youth programs, health education, grief support, reentry support, and community events.
Midtown13 services
Trans Housing Atlanta Program helps transgender and gender non-binary people in metro Atlanta who are homeless or unstably housed. They offer housing support, small stipends for approved housing costs, case management, and connections to resources like SNAP and HOPWA.
Candler Park4 services
StandUp for Kids is a nonprofit that helps young people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. In Atlanta, they focus on school-based mentoring and also connect youth to help with housing, food, supplies, education, jobs, and other needs.
6 services
Mercy Care is a Federally Qualified Health Center in Atlanta. It helps people get medical care, dental care, vision care, mental health care, psychiatry, pharmacy services, and outreach for people experiencing homelessness, even if they have low income or no insurance.
Downtown10 services
Mercy Care is a Federally Qualified Health Center in Atlanta. It offers medical care, dental care, vision care, behavioral health, psychiatry, pharmacy services for Mercy Care patients, and outreach for people experiencing homelessness. Walk-ins are welcome at its clinics, and appointments can be made by phone.
Downtown8 services
3Keys is an Atlanta nonprofit that works to end chronic homelessness. It owns and manages permanent supportive housing for adults who have experienced homelessness and mental illness, and it connects residents with case management, health support, employment help, transportation, food help, and daily living support.
Campbellton Road9 services
Community Friendship, Inc. is a nonprofit mental health recovery organization for adults with long-term psychiatric disabilities. It helps people build daily living, work, housing, and social skills through housing support, homeless outreach, case management, peer support, psychiatric rehabilitation, and job help.
Downtown8 services
Community Friendship Inc. is a nonprofit mental health rehabilitation organization in Atlanta. It helps adults with long-term psychiatric disabilities build daily living, social, work, housing, and recovery skills through housing supports, outreach, case management, peer support, and job help.
7 services
The Bridge of Christ Corporation is a faith-based nonprofit that helps people and families in Georgia who are homeless, close to homelessness, living in unsafe housing, or displaced by a local crisis. They help people connect to housing and crisis resources, fill out forms, gather documents, and get guidance and spiritual support.
5 services
Covenant House Georgia helps young people in Atlanta who are homeless, at risk of homelessness, or escaping trafficking. They provide free shelter, drop-in help, meals, showers, case management, health and mental health care, education support, job readiness, and longer-term housing.
11 services
SafeHouse Outreach is an Atlanta nonprofit that helps people who are homeless or in need. They offer street outreach, hot meals, showers and laundry, help getting IDs, housing navigation, rental and utility help, employment training, and referrals for health, mental health, and substance use needs.
Downtown12 services
Trans Housing Coalition is a trans-led group in Atlanta that helps transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming adults who are chronically homeless. They use a Housing First model and connect people to long-term housing, case management, and support like health care, counseling, employment, education, addiction treatment, and name-change help.
3 services
