62 organizations
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Youth Villages Inner Harbour Campus is the Georgia residential campus of Youth Villages. It provides short-term residential mental and behavioral health treatment for boys and girls ages 6 to 17 who have serious emotional, behavioral, psychiatric, or related needs.
4 services
Home Base is a national nonprofit based in Charlestown, Massachusetts, founded by Massachusetts General Hospital and the Red Sox Foundation. It helps veterans, service members, and their families with mental health care, brain injury support, substance use recovery, wellness programs, and family support at no cost.
8 services
Georgia HOPE provides mental health, substance use, family support, school-based counseling, and foster care services across Georgia. They help children, teens, adults, and families through therapy, assessments, medication support, case management, recovery groups, and referrals.
10 services
This record is filed under the wrong name — the website, phone, and address all belong to Skyland Trail, a nonprofit mental health treatment organization in Atlanta (not Grady Health System). Skyland Trail provides residential and day treatment for adults (18+) and teens (14-17) living with conditions like depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, schizophrenia, and borderline personality disorder. They offer therapy, medication management, primary care, and family support using evidence-based approaches.
7 services
The Center for Health & Rehabilitation is a Fulton County behavioral health clinic (run with River Edge Behavioral Health) that helps adults with mental health and substance use problems. They offer psychiatric care, counseling, group therapy, crisis help, case management, and peer support. Care is free for uninsured Fulton County residents, with a sliding fee based on your income for others.
5 services
Mercy Care at Gateway Center is a clinic inside the Gateway Center, a downtown Atlanta shelter and services hub for people experiencing homelessness. It offers low-cost primary medical care, behavioral health and psychiatry, mental health and substance use help, and a medical recuperative care program where homeless men can safely heal after a hospital stay. As a Federally Qualified Health Center, it sees everyone regardless of ability to pay, and walk-ins are welcome.
Downtown5 services
Claratel Behavioral Health (formerly the DeKalb Community Service Board) is a community mental health agency at 445 Winn Way in Decatur. They provide counseling, psychiatric care, substance use treatment, developmental disability services, and 24/7 crisis help for adults, children, and teens, with sliding-scale fees for people who are uninsured. (Note: the name 'Bright from the Start' on file appears to be incorrect — the website, phone, and address all belong to Claratel.)
6 services
Camp Creek Comprehensive Care Center is Grady Health System's largest neighborhood health center on Atlanta's southwest side. Under one roof it offers primary care for adults, seniors, and kids, plus eye care, heart and orthopedic care, women's health, behavioral health, lab and imaging, and same-day urgent visits. As part of Grady, it serves patients regardless of insurance status.
10 services
This is Morehouse Healthcare's Comprehensive Family Healthcare Center, the faculty doctors' practice of Morehouse School of Medicine, located on Lee Street in Atlanta's West End. It is a full medical clinic where you can see doctors for family medicine, children's care, women's health, and many specialties, plus virtual visits. They accept Medicare and Medicaid and are taking new patients.
7 services
The Asa G. Yancey Health Center is a Grady Health System neighborhood clinic on Atlanta's Westside. It provides primary care for all ages, women's and pregnancy care, pediatrics, behavioral health, HIV care, and on-site lab and pharmacy services. Grady offers financial assistance for low-income, uninsured Fulton and DeKalb County residents.
8 services
Fulton County BHDD is the county's public agency for mental health, addiction, and developmental disability services, and it serves all county residents no matter their ability to pay. They offer free or sliding-scale therapy, psychiatric care, crisis help, substance use treatment, peer support, and services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Services are spread across several centers in Atlanta, Sandy Springs, College Park, and Alpharetta, with the main adult clinic at 265 Boulevard NE.
Old Fourth Ward11 services
This is Fulton County's government health department for mental health, addiction, and developmental disability services. They offer free or low-cost (sliding scale) counseling, therapy, psychiatric care, crisis help, peer support, and substance use treatment to all county residents, including people without insurance. They have service centers across Atlanta, Sandy Springs, and College Park, with walk-ins welcome for adult care.
9 services
Fulton County's Behavioral Health & Developmental Disabilities department offers free and low-cost mental health, substance use, and developmental disability services to county residents, including people without insurance. At the South Fulton Service Center in College Park you can get counseling, group and family therapy, psychiatric care, medication management, and addiction treatment. They also run a walk-in crisis center, a mobile crisis unit, and programs for children, teens, and adults.
9 services
This is Fulton County's public behavioral health agency. They offer counseling, therapy, psychiatric care, substance use treatment, and crisis help for kids, teens, and adults, plus day programs for people with developmental disabilities. They serve both insured and uninsured residents at clinics across the county.
Adamsville8 services
This is Fulton County's government program that helps children, teens, and young adults (ages 4–24) who are struggling with their mental health, emotions, or drug and alcohol use. Working with partner agencies like CHRIS 180 and Georgia HOPE, they offer counseling, family and group therapy, psychiatric care, and substance use treatment at clinics and in schools. They accept Medicaid and most insurance, and serve families who have no insurance.
Adams Park6 services
Alliance Recovery Center is an outpatient clinic in Decatur that helps adults recover from opioid and other drug addiction. They provide medication-assisted treatment (methadone and buprenorphine) along with individual and group counseling, medical monitoring, and peer support. You come in during morning hours to get your daily medicine and work with a counselor on staying in recovery.
5 services
This is the Fulton County government department that runs outpatient mental health, substance use, and developmental disability services for adults, teens, and children — including people without insurance. They provide counseling, psychiatric care, medication-assisted treatment for opioid use, day programs for people with developmental disabilities, school-based services, and court-related mental health programs across several service centers in the county. Call the main number to find the right program and set up an appointment; walk-ins are also accepted at the centers.
11 services
Recovery Consultants of Atlanta is a nonprofit, peer-led community health center (an FQHC) with locations in Decatur and Tucker. They provide low-cost primary care, mental health and psychiatric care, substance use treatment, and HIV/Hepatitis C testing and prevention. They also help people living with HIV through support groups and housing assistance.
13 services
This is Fulton County's public behavioral health agency. They offer counseling, psychiatric care, and treatment for mental health, addiction, and substance use for adults, children, and teens, plus services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Care is free or charged on a sliding scale based on income, and no one is turned away because they cannot pay.
10 services
Nak Union Behavioral Health is a counseling clinic in College Park that helps adults, teens, and families deal with mental health concerns and drug or alcohol problems. They offer individual, family, and group counseling, addiction treatment, and mental health and psychiatric evaluations, both in person and by telehealth. They also work with people involved in the justice system and run classes like anger management and family violence education.
7 services
