65 organizations
How re-entry works in Atlanta
Coming home is a project with a critical path, and the first item is ID: birth certificate first (vital records), then state ID at DDS — almost every other door requires it. Re-entry navigators can speed this up; some programs start the paperwork before release.
The honest landscape: housing is the hard part. Transitional and re-entry houses vary widely in quality, cost, and rules — before you commit, ask three things: what are the fees, what are the rules, and do they accept your record (this directory lets you filter housing by "accepts felony records"). Records: Georgia's record-restriction law has expanded; the Georgia Justice Project does free record-clearing clinics — an old charge sealed can reopen jobs and apartments. Work: some staffing agencies and employers in Atlanta hire returning citizens on purpose; re-entry orgs keep the real list.
What to expect when you call: questions about your release date, supervision terms, and record. Plain answers get you matched faster — nobody on these lines is judging.
Southern Center for Human Rights is a nonprofit law and advocacy group in Atlanta. It helps people affected by the criminal legal system in the Deep South by doing legal representation, lawsuits, policy advocacy, court watching, and public education.
Downtown9 services
Georgia Justice Project helps Georgians who have been touched by the criminal legal system. They provide free legal help and social services, including criminal defense in Fulton and DeKalb, record clearing, reentry help, probation help, licensing guidance, and education about voting rights.
Sweet Auburn10 services
Metro RYDC is a Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice secure short-term detention center for court-involved youth. It serves youth from Fulton and Henry counties who are waiting for court, a community program, or placement in a longer-term facility.
10 services
LiveLikeMike Homes is an Atlanta nonprofit that provides recovery and transitional housing. It offers structured, drug-free homes for people rebuilding after treatment, incarceration, housing instability, or trouble finding a place that accepts a voucher.
14 services
Georgia Micro Enterprise Network, or GMEN, helps people start and grow small businesses in Georgia and the Southeast. They offer business training, coaching, financial literacy help, technical assistance, and connections to capital and business resources.
Castleberry Hill9 services
The DeKalb MSC/ISP is a Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice Community Services Office serving DeKalb County youth who are involved with the juvenile justice system. The office handles community supervision work such as intake, case management, probation, detention planning, re-entry, and aftercare.
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The Criminal Justice Coordinating Council is a Georgia state agency in Atlanta. It gives grants to justice and victim-service programs, runs crime victim compensation, supports human trafficking and sexual assault response work, and shares criminal justice data.
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The National Association for Shoplifting Prevention is a national nonprofit that helps people understand and stop shoplifting. It offers online theft education classes, self-assessment, phone coaching, therapist referrals, and programs for courts, retailers, and communities.
11 services
Prison Book Program is a nonprofit based in Quincy, Massachusetts, not Atlanta. It sends free books and reading materials to people in prison across most of the United States, including many federal and state facilities, and also publishes prison resource and legal guides.
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Books to Prisoners is a Seattle nonprofit that mails free books to people in prisons across the country. People in prison must send a letter with their name, prison ID number, and mailing address; the group says it does not take book requests by phone or email.
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Puppies Behind Bars is a New York nonprofit where incarcerated people raise and train working dogs. The dogs become service dogs for veterans and first responders, facility dogs for police departments and schools, and explosive-detection dogs for law enforcement.
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Amazing Grace Community Resource Center helps underserved people and families in Clayton, South Fulton, and Fayetteville, Georgia. They offer youth programs, after-school mentorship, food help, clothing, shelter support, mental health and wellness support, counseling, and reentry support.
8 services
Prison Families Alliance is a nonprofit that supports families and children who have loved ones in jail, prison, or coming home. They offer free peer support meetings, youth groups, workshops, and resource information online and in several states, including an in-person meeting in Newnan, Georgia.
12 services
Martin Luther King Sr. Community Resources Collaborative is a community resource center in Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward and Sweet Auburn area. It brings partner agencies together in one place to help families with education, jobs, money skills, housing education, family support, and community programs.
Sweet Auburn7 services
Ameelio is a national technology nonprofit, not a walk-in Atlanta agency. It works with prisons, jails, courts, and correctional agencies to provide communication, education, digital access, and reentry tools for incarcerated people and their support networks.
8 services
City of Refuge is a faith-based nonprofit on Atlanta's Westside that helps people and families move out of crisis. It offers housing, meals, health services through partners, job training, youth programs, and support for people returning from incarceration.
Hunter Hills15 services
Rainey Day Fund is a charity organization in Atlanta that helps people and families in crisis. They connect people with community resources, and they offer support for people coming home from jail or prison, including case management, housing help, employment help, education or skill training, and referrals.
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Project Avary supports children and teens who have an incarcerated parent, a formerly incarcerated parent, or a parent who was detained or deported. They offer free online support circles nationwide and in-person outdoor leadership programs in Northern California, plus support for caregivers and training for schools and community groups.
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Administer Justice is a faith-based nonprofit that helps people who cannot afford a lawyer. It offers 45-minute legal advice appointments, a next-steps plan, resource coaching, and optional prayer through Gospel Justice Centers and phone scheduling.
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Motherhood Beyond Bars is an Atlanta-based nonprofit that supports babies born to incarcerated women in Georgia, their mothers, and the family or friends caring for the babies. They help with infant supplies, diapers, caregiver support, communication with mothers in prison, reentry planning, and family reunification.
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