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.
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.
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 Urban League of Greater Atlanta has worked in metro Atlanta since 1920. Its Financial Empowerment & Economic Resilience Center is a one-stop place for emergency help with rent and bills, jobs, housing, small business help and money coaching. It also runs programs for young people and a water bill help program for DeKalb County.
CareerRise is an Atlanta nonprofit that links job seekers, employers, training groups, and funders. It runs Westside Works, a training center on the Westside where people can get career advice and job training. It also offers free online logistics training and a virtual career program for young people ages 16 to 24.
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.
STRIVE Atlanta is the Atlanta site of a national job training group. It offers free job training for adults and young adults, plus career coaching, help finding a job, and support that continues after you are hired. To start, you sign up for an info session.
Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency (ACSS) helps people with money struggles get ready for work, find a job, and keep it. Its main program, CareerWorks, starts with a three-week boot camp and then gives 12 months of job help and coaching. It also has programs for veterans, young adults, and hiring events with employers.
Our House helps families with young children who are homeless or have unstable housing. At its Atlanta campus on Boulevard, it offers a family shelter, free early childhood education and childcare, a no-cost nurse-led health clinic, and job training. Case managers work with each family toward steady income and housing.
Connecting Communities and Families helps young adults leaving foster care, people coming home from prison or jail, and families with low to moderate incomes. They offer job training, computer skills classes, job placement help, and support like case management and rides.
Southface Institute is an Atlanta nonprofit, started in 1978, that works on energy-saving and healthy buildings. It trains trade workers and builders, offers green building certification and consulting, and runs grants and discounts that help other nonprofits cut energy bills. Many of its services and courses cost money.
Southface is an Atlanta nonprofit that works to make buildings use less energy and be healthier. It teaches classes for building and trade workers, and it offers grants and discounts to help nonprofits cut their energy bills. It also shares free energy code guides and runs an energy code helpline.
RE:IMAGINE is an Atlanta nonprofit that helps young people start careers in film and media. It offers workshops, a one-year paid apprenticeship, a summer filmmaking fellowship, and school programs. It also hires out its youth apprentices for video and media work.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our House helps families in Atlanta who are homeless. It runs free, accredited early childhood education for children from 6 weeks to 5 years old, with free meals and health services on site. The Decatur campus is Our House's original building, at 711 South Columbia Drive. It has six classrooms, a parent resource room, and offices.
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 Latin American Association helps Latino families and immigrants. At its Atlanta office on Buford Highway, staff help with food and basic needs, rent and utility bills, immigration legal services, classes, jobs, and youth programs. Services are by appointment, so call first.
