I Will Survive, Inc. is a nonprofit led by veterans. It helps military-connected families who are at higher risk for breast cancer or are living with it. Help includes money support such as paying housing costs, wellness workshops, and mentoring with a peer who has been through it.
The Atlanta Vet Center is a small counseling center in College Park for Veterans, service members, and their families. It offers free, private counseling for things like PTSD, depression, grief, and military sexual trauma. It is not a medical clinic, and you do not need to be signed up for VA care to use it.
Camp Twin Lakes runs accessible camps in Rutledge and Winder, Georgia, for children and families dealing with serious illnesses, disabilities, and other hard life challenges. It offers weeklong overnight summer camps and school-year weekend retreats, run with more than 70 partner groups. It also holds a weekend retreat for service members, veterans, and their families.
Wounded Warrior Project is a national group for veterans and service members who were hurt, became ill, or were injured on or after September 11, 2001. Their families and caregivers can get help too. They offer mental health, physical wellness, VA benefits help, career help, money coaching and peer connection at no cost to registered warriors and families.
This is a nonprofit that gives emergency money help to people serving in the Georgia National Guard. It also helps full-time state and federal civilian workers of the Georgia Department of Defense. Help comes as a grant that does not need to be paid back, or as a loan with no interest.
The Georgia Student Finance Commission is the state agency that runs Georgia's college and career school money programs, including HOPE and Zell Miller. It manages scholarships, grants, and loans that can be forgiven, and offers free help for families planning to pay for school. Details and applications for the state programs are on the GAfutures website.
Camp Southern Ground is a camp in Fayetteville, Georgia. In the summer it runs week-long sleepaway camps for kids ages 7 to 17. The rest of the year it runs programs for veterans, active-duty service members, and their families, including Warrior Week, Warrior PATHH, and Warrior Family Camp.
S. service members who died or were disabled while serving. The money can help with private school or tutoring for grades K-12, and with college, trade school or graduate school. The group says it has now widened its mission to include first responders.
This is the VA health care system for veterans in the Atlanta area. Its main medical center is at 1670 Clairmont Road in Decatur, and it has many clinics around the area. It offers primary care, mental health care, a pharmacy, emergency care, women's health care, and social work help.
Child Care Aware of America is a national nonprofit that works to make child care stronger and easier to get. It helps military and Department of Defense families with child care costs and respite care. Any family can use its website to find a local child care referral agency by ZIP code.
Paralyzed Veterans of America is a national group that helps veterans, especially those with spinal cord injuries or diseases. Its trained service officers help with VA benefit claims and appeals for free, and it has lawyers, a career program, and caregiver support.
DAV is a national nonprofit that gives veterans and their families free help. Its benefits advocates help with VA claims and appeals. It also runs free volunteer-driver rides to VA medical places, caregiver support, and job help. You enter your ZIP code on its website to find the nearest office.
The Emory Healthcare Veterans Program gives no-cost mental health care to veterans and service members who served at least one day after September 11, 2001. It treats post-traumatic stress, brain injury, military sexual trauma, anxiety, and depression. The main treatment is a two-week accelerated program, offered in person or online, and the program says it covers travel, lodging and meals too.
Chapters Health System is a nonprofit based in Temple Terrace, Florida. It offers hospice care at home, palliative care, and grief support. Its services reach the Atlanta area, including Cherokee, Cobb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties.
The Mission Continues helps military veterans find purpose after service by organizing them into local 'platoons' that complete hands-on volunteer projects in their communities. In September 2025, the group became part of the Travis Manion Foundation, which now runs its programs nationwide. The Atlanta Platoon works with schools like Sylvan Hills Middle School, building gardens, outdoor classrooms, and doing neighborhood beautification alongside veterans and community volunteers.
The Technical College System of Georgia runs the state's 22 technical colleges. It offers job training programs, tuition help such as the HOPE Career Grant, dual enrollment for high school students, and adult education with GED testing. It also supports veterans and students who face barriers to school.
Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP) is a nonprofit that builds, fixes up, and pays for affordable homes and apartments in metro Atlanta. It sells homes to buyers with low or moderate incomes, rents out apartments and a few houses, lends money to housing developers, and trains neighborhood leaders for free.
The Atlanta Vet Center is a small VA counseling center for veterans, service members, and their families. It offers free, private counseling for things like PTSD, depression, grief, and military sexual trauma. It also helps people move back to civilian life and connects them to VA and community help.
Scholarship America runs scholarship programs for many sponsors across the country. Students can look through open scholarships on its website and apply online. It also runs an emergency grant for Achieve Atlanta scholars.
PTSD Foundation of America helps veterans and their families who are struggling with combat trauma. It runs Camp Hope, a free housing and healing program in Houston, Texas. It also runs outreach chapters (the site names Atlanta as one), peer support groups, and a 24-hour help line answered by a combat veteran.
