54 organizations
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Families First is a Georgia nonprofit that helps families build stability and resilience. Its Decatur office offers appointment-only navigator support, behavioral health help, and parenting services.
16 services
Ser Familia is a nonprofit that helps Latino families, youth, couples, parents, and individuals in Georgia and Puerto Rico. They offer free counseling, family and parenting programs, youth support, domestic violence services, tutoring, benefits help, and community support in Spanish and English.
89 services
Charlie’s House is a Kansas City nonprofit that teaches parents and caregivers how to prevent child injuries in and around the home. They offer tours of a safety demonstration house, safety education, virtual learning tools, and childproofing supplies.
11 services
Boys Town runs the Boys Town National Hotline, a 24/7 crisis and support line for kids, teens, young adults, and parents. Trained counselors help with abuse, self-harm thoughts, bullying, depression, anxiety, family problems, and other hard situations by phone, text, email, and online resources. It is national and serves people in Georgia virtually; no Atlanta office was verified.
6 services
Foreverfamily helps children in Georgia who have a parent in prison or jail. They help kids stay connected to their parent through prison visits, travel help, family support, caregiver support, and youth programs.
7 services
The Georgia Fatherhood Program is a free, voluntary state program run by the Division of Child Support Services (DCSS) for parents who owe child support and are out of work or underemployed. It helps them find jobs and become self-sufficient through job training, job placement, GED classes, driver's license reinstatement, and emotional wellness courses. It also helps parents stay involved in their children's lives and avoid going to court over unpaid support.
7 services
The Chosen Ones, Inc. is a nonprofit that works to protect children from sex trafficking and exploitation. It teaches and supports mothers and daughters through mentoring, education, and youth empowerment programs, plus community events like back-to-school giveaways. It serves families across metro Atlanta.
Mechanicsville6 services
Right Side Up is a free, long-term residential addiction recovery program for women with substance use disorders who have young children (under age 13). Part of MARR Addiction Treatment Centers, the roughly six-month program lets moms live on-site with up to two children and includes counseling, trauma recovery, parenting classes, job-skills training, medical care, and therapeutic childcare. Pregnant women and IV drug users get priority for a bed.
5 services
Partnership to End Addiction is a national nonprofit that helps parents and families whose child or loved one is using drugs or alcohol. You can text, email, or call their free, confidential helpline to talk one-on-one with a trained specialist who listens and helps you figure out next steps. They also offer free online guides, a risk-assessment tool, and parent coaching, all available in English and Spanish.
4 services
Friends of Refugees is a Clarkston nonprofit (founded 1995) that helps refugees and immigrants build new lives after government resettlement help ends. They offer English and literacy classes, job and small-business training, healthy-food and gardening programs, and maternal health support. Their Embrace Refugee Birth program gives pregnant women free childbirth classes, doula support during labor and after birth, breastfeeding help, and help navigating doctors and hospitals.
4 services
ISDD helps grandparents and other relatives in Metro Atlanta who are raising children when the parents cannot. They offer free case management, support groups, parenting classes, and emergency financial help, with a special focus on families caring for kids who have disabilities or health problems.
5 services
Little Debbie's Second Chance Home is a nonprofit (founded 2004, CARF-accredited) that runs structured, home-like residential programs for displaced teens ages 14-18, including pregnant and parenting teens and their babies. They provide safe housing, life-skills and parenting training, education and job-readiness support, counseling, and foster-parent training and child placement. They also serve young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
7 services
HCF Preventative Services is a faith-based nonprofit in Stone Mountain that helps people coming out of jail or prison get back on their feet and stay out of trouble. They offer re-entry coaching, mental health and life-skills coaching, job and work-readiness help, family support, and emergency help with food and utilities. Office visits are by appointment only.
8 services
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.
5 services
