Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency helps people with money struggles get ready for work and find steady jobs. It offers career coaching, job readiness classes, training, job placement, and financial coaching. It serves veterans, people without housing, older workers, young adults, and people coming home from prison.
Westside Works is a job training and career center on Atlanta's Westside. It is an initiative of CareerRise. It offers training in construction, culinary and hospitality, healthcare, and technology, plus career advising, job clubs, and job fairs.
The Georgia Department of Labor is the state agency for jobs and unemployment. People use its website, its phone line, and local Career Centers to look for work, file for unemployment benefits, get information about child labor and youth work permits, and report unemployment fraud. Employers also use it for hiring, taxes, and claims.
First Step Staffing is a nonprofit staffing agency that helps people who face barriers to work, including people who are homeless, veterans, and people who were in jail or prison. It places people in light-industrial jobs, offers job coaching, and helps with rides to work. It also has a team that helps people who are homeless get disability benefits.
This is the Goodwill of North Georgia career center at 2160 Metropolitan Parkway SW. It sits at the same address as a Goodwill store and donation center. You can look for jobs, use computers, get help with a resume and cover letter, and work with a career coach. Goodwill says its career centers are free and open to the public.
WorkSource Atlanta is the City of Atlanta's free career center, part of the city's workforce system once known as the Atlanta Workforce Development Agency. It helps Atlanta residents find jobs, get career training, and improve work skills, and it also helps local businesses find workers. Services are free and include help for adults, laid-off workers, and young people ages 16-24.
Georgia State University's Intensive English Program teaches English to adults. It runs an academic English program at the downtown campus, an online option, and a Workforce English program with free classes for immigrants and refugees in Fulton County. Adult ESL classes have morning and evening options.
Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Atlanta helps people who recently came home from jail or prison find steady work. New members start right away on a paid work crew, get job skills training and coaching, and receive help finding and keeping a permanent job afterward. CEO is growing its program on Atlanta's Westside, in neighborhoods like English Avenue and Vine City.
The Center for Hope is a help center at Jefferson Avenue Baptist Church in East Point, run with Luke 1:37 Ministries. It gives out food boxes, clothes, shoes, blankets, coats, and hygiene items. It also offers job help, financial counseling, referrals, prayer, and spiritual mentoring. You must make an appointment first.
ARC Workforce Solutions is part of the Atlanta Regional Commission. It runs WorkSource Atlanta Regional, which helps people in seven metro Atlanta counties find jobs and get career training. It also helps employers hire and train workers and offers a program for young people ages 16 to 24.
This is Georgia's state agency that helps people with disabilities get ready for work, find a job, and keep it. It also helps people who are blind, low vision, Deaf, or hard of hearing, supports independent living, and handles Social Security disability decisions for Georgia.
This is the South DeKalb Career Center, run by Goodwill of North Georgia in Decatur. It helps people find work with job listings, computers, resume and cover letter help, and career coaching. The same site also has a donation drop-off.
City of Refuge is a faith-based campus on Atlanta's Westside that helps people and families move out of crisis. It offers housing for women, children, and men, free job training, youth programs, a school, a campus kitchen, and an on-site health clinic. For housing, call and leave a message, because walk-ins are not taken.
WorkSource Atlanta is the City of Atlanta's job training and career office. It helps city residents get career counseling, job readiness classes, and federal money for job training. It also points adults 18 and older to free GED prep classes, and it runs a youth program for ages 16 to 24.
Dress for Success Georgia, also called Dress for Success Atlanta, helps women reach economic independence. It offers professional clothing, career counseling and workforce training, and support that continues after a woman finds a job. Clients can also join virtual and in-person classes.
Integrity Transformations CDC helps people on Atlanta's Westside find jobs and build better lives. It runs job training and placement programs, offers The BRIDGE for people returning home from jail or prison, and helps residents with housing and homeownership through financial education.
Bridges Atlanta helps young adults with disabilities, ages 17 to 26, get ready for a job, find one, and keep it. A Youth Employment Specialist works with each person one-on-one and stays involved for the first year on the job. It is free for participants and families.
WorkSource DeKalb is DeKalb County's job center. It gives job seekers free help with career counseling, job search, training, and GED support. It also has programs for young people ages 16 to 24 and services for employers.
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.
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.
