12 organizations
We are still writing the honest guide for this category. In the meantime, the organizations below are ready to help.
Catholic Charities Atlanta is a nonprofit social service agency that helps families and individuals become stable and self-sufficient. It offers counseling, parenting support, English and citizenship classes, financial and housing counseling, SNAP help, immigration legal help, refugee services, and veteran support.
17 services
New American Pathways is an Atlanta nonprofit that helps refugees and other immigrants in Georgia build a stable life. They help with immigration legal services, case management, jobs, school support, parenting support, health navigation, SNAP information, and civic leadership.
16 services
The International Rescue Committee in Atlanta helps refugees and immigrants rebuild their lives in Georgia. It helps with resettlement, case management, furnished housing, rental help, health care connections, English classes, job support, youth programs, and immigration services.
10 services
Inspiritus helps refugees, immigrants, children in foster care, people with developmental disabilities, disaster survivors, and low-income communities. In metro Atlanta, they offer refugee support, immigration legal help, foster care support, disability residential services, disaster recovery help, and small-business lending through Thrive Community Lending.
Midtown12 services
ICNA Relief USA is a Muslim nonprofit that helps people in need across the United States. In Georgia, it runs a resource center and food pantry in Decatur, refugee services, free health clinics, transitional housing support, disaster relief, family support, and some financial help.
11 services
Refugee Family Assistance Program (RFAP) is a Stone Mountain nonprofit, started by refugee women, that helps refugee and immigrant families settle and thrive in metro Atlanta. They focus on supporting families who have a child or relative with a disability, and they also run programs for refugee women, elders, and people who want to learn how to buy a home. Help includes case management, school and disability advocacy, interpretation, and free housing counseling.
8 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
U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) has an Atlanta office that helps refugees and immigrants with their legal paperwork. Their lawyers handle things like asylum, green cards, work permits, family petitions, and becoming a U.S. citizen, often at low cost. They also help refugees who have recently arrived get settled and get the documents they need.
4 services
Refugee Women's Network helps refugee and immigrant women and their families in metro Atlanta build new lives in the U.S. They offer help settling in, English and job-readiness training, small-business support, health and wellness programs, and youth programs. They are based at Legacy Park in Decatur and have served refugee women for more than 20 years.
8 services
The Georgia Refugee Health Program is part of the state Department of Public Health. It helps newly arrived refugees, asylees, and other special immigrants get a free health checkup (a domestic health screening) within 90 days of arriving, including tuberculosis screening, vaccines, and referrals to care. It also helps people use their short-term Medicaid coverage and offers interpretation during the screening.
4 services
Refugee Family Assistance Program (RFAP) was started in 2006 by refugee mothers to help refugee and immigrant families in the Atlanta area, especially families raising children with autism or other disabilities. They offer case management, school advocacy, interpretation, help understanding disability laws and Medicaid Waivers, HUD-approved housing and homeownership counseling, and programs for refugee women and elderly women.
8 services
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.
10 services
