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The D'Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) is a national program based at Syracuse University that helps service members, veterans, and military spouses build civilian careers and start businesses. Most of its help, like the free Onward to Opportunity career training, is offered online so veterans anywhere—including the Atlanta area—can take part. They offer career certifications, coaching, job placement, and entrepreneurship training at no cost.

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Leave No Veteran Behind is a Chicago-based national nonprofit founded by Army veterans that helps returning veterans find work and pay off school debt. They run transitional jobs, security and leadership training, job placement, and a scholarship that pays down veterans' student loans in exchange for community service. Note: their programs operate in the Chicago area, not Atlanta.

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The Shepherd's Inn is Atlanta Mission's shelter for single men over 18 who are experiencing homelessness. It serves up to 450 men a day with a bed, hot meals, laundry, counseling, recovery and life-skills classes, job training, and spiritual support. The goal is to help each man, step by step, move toward independent living.

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Veterans Empowerment Organization (VEO) is an Atlanta nonprofit, founded in 2008, that helps veterans rebuild their lives and become self-sufficient. They provide transitional and permanent housing, job training and workforce support, and behavioral health care for mental health and substance use. Veterans in need can call them or stop by their West Lake Avenue campus to get connected to services.

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This is one of Fulton County's three day programs (Training Centers) for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, run by the county Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Disabilities. The center helps adults build everyday living skills, social and communication skills, and work skills (from volunteering through pre-vocational training) so they can be more independent and active in the community. To join, you must first qualify for a Georgia DBHDD waiver (COMP or NOW).

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This is one of Fulton County's three Training Centers (day programs) for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The Central Training Center helps people learn daily living skills, job and vocational skills, communication, and how to take part in their community. To join, you first need approval through the state (DBHDD) with a COMP or NOW waiver, then you set up a tour and intake interview with the center.

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Veterans Empowerment Organization (VEO) helps veterans who are homeless or about to lose their housing get back on their feet. On their Atlanta campus they offer a place to stay (emergency, transitional, and permanent housing), counseling for mental health and substance use, and job training to help veterans find steady work. There are no barriers to getting a bed, regardless of drug use or criminal history.

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Refugee Women's Network is a nonprofit founded by and for refugee and immigrant women that helps women survivors of war, conflict, and displacement build new lives in Georgia. They offer leadership training, jobs and business help (including a food-business Chefs Club), health and wellness groups, English and youth support, and help adjusting to life in the U.S.

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The SPOT is a free drop-in center run by CHRIS 180 for young people ages 16-26, including those who are homeless or struggling. In a safe, judgment-free space you can get counseling and mental health support, help with school (GED, tutoring, college), job and employment help, free meals, a food pantry and clothing closet, and connections to housing and other resources.

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Integrity Transformations CDC is a nonprofit on Atlanta's Westside that helps people get jobs and rebuild their lives, with special focus on people coming home from prison or jail. They offer free job-readiness classes, resume and interview help, computer skills, case management, and connections to free vocational training and full-time work. They also work on affordable housing and financial literacy in the community.

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NewLife-Second Chance Outreach is a volunteer-led nonprofit that helps Georgians who have been arrested, convicted, or incarcerated rebuild their lives. They offer job-readiness training, financial coaching, digital skills classes, and reentry navigation, and they connect people to housing, food, healthcare, and other community resources. They also work on criminal justice reform and voter education.

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Redeemed Outreach CDC (Redeemed Community Outreach Inc.) is a faith-rooted community development group in Atlanta's West End that has served the neighborhood since the 1990s. Their REDEEM House program offers re-entry and transitional housing for single working women, including help with deposits, first month's rent, furniture, and job training. They also run urban farms, community gardens, and the West End Farmers Market, plus neighborhood safety work through the West End Neighborhood Association.

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Georgia Works is a nonprofit that helps chronically homeless men become independent through a 6-to-12-month live-in program. While in the program, men get housing, paid transitional work, case management, and life-skills classes, plus help getting a GED, a driver's license, and a bank account. Men must stay drug- and alcohol-free, work 30+ hours a week, and save part of their pay.

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Atlanta CARES Mentoring Movement recruits and trains caring adults to mentor and tutor under-resourced Black and minority youth across Atlanta, serving about 600 students through community and school-based programs at local elementary, middle, and high schools. They run hands-on STEM programs (including an annual STEMfest conference at Georgia Tech) and a University for Parents program that helps low-income parents build job skills and earn certifications. It is the Atlanta affiliate of the National CARES Mentoring Movement.

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