This is the Refugee Health Program of the Georgia Department of Public Health. It serves newly arrived refugees across Georgia. It works with resettlement agencies, county health departments and health care providers to set up a health screening. Its outreach team gives health education, helps link people with complex medical needs to care, and makes home visits.
Inspiritus (once called Lutheran Services of Georgia) helps people whose lives have been upended. It helps new refugees and immigrants settle in, find jobs and get legal help. It also finds foster homes for children with serious medical or behavior needs, and host homes for people with developmental disabilities. After natural disasters, it helps families rebuild.
All Saints' is an Episcopal church in Midtown Atlanta. It holds worship on Sundays and welcomes LGBTQ+ people. It also runs service ministries: the Midtown Assistance Center (food bank, men's clothing closet, help with rent, utilities and rides), Refugee Ministries, the Threads clothing ministry, and Covenant Community, a residential program for men recovering from substance abuse.
Refugee Women's Network is a Georgia nonprofit that helps refugee and immigrant women and their families build a new life. Staff help with settling in, job readiness, starting a food business, leadership, health and outdoor activities. There is also a youth program for Afghan youth ages 15 to 24.
ICNA Relief Georgia runs a resource center at 4773 Memorial Drive in Decatur. It gives out free groceries on weekends, holds free Shifa health clinics, and helps newly arrived refugees. It also has family services, transitional housing for women, and disaster relief.
ICNA Relief Georgia runs a resource center and food pantry on Memorial Drive in Decatur. It also offers help for refugees, Shifa health clinics in Decatur and Duluth, foster care advocacy, and a transitional housing program. You can call or email to ask about each one.
New American Pathways is an Atlanta nonprofit that helps refugees and other new Americans from arrival through citizenship. It offers case management, help finding jobs, immigration legal help, programs for parents and students, and health and benefits help. Each program has its own rules about who can join.
Refugee Family Assistance Program was started in 2006 by refugee mothers of children with special needs. It helps refugee and immigrant families in the Atlanta area. Help includes support for families with a disabled child, services for older refugee women, housing counseling, and job training for women.
Georgia's Division of Family and Children Services is a state agency that works to keep children safe. Staff look into reports of child abuse and neglect and work with the family. The agency also helps with foster care and with food, cash, health coverage, and child care benefits.
Family Heritage Foundation is a Christian nonprofit in Clarkston that has helped refugee families and children since 2002. It runs after-school help, English and citizenship classes, computer skills, youth programs, help to prevent homelessness, and a food program with diapers.S.
Georgia DFCS is the state agency for family and children's services. On its website and in Georgia Gateway you can start applications for food stamps (SNAP), Medicaid, cash help (TANF), and energy help. It also takes reports of child abuse and works with foster and adoptive families.
This is Georgia's state agency for family and children's services. It helps families apply for food benefits, cash help, and Medicaid. It also takes reports of child abuse, and it runs foster care and adoption services.
The Fulton County Board of Health runs public health clinics across Fulton County. They offer shots, WIC, HIV and sexual health care, family planning, teen health, TB tests, and birth and death records. Services are different at each location, so call before you go.
College Park Regional Health Center is a clinic of the Fulton County Board of Health. It offers vaccines, family planning, teen health visits, travel health advice, refugee health screening, and SSI disability screening. It is open Monday to Friday.
The International Rescue Committee in Atlanta helps refugees and immigrants build new lives in Georgia. It helps newly arrived refugees with housing, health care, English classes and jobs. It also offers immigration legal help, adult classes and youth programs, and it welcomes volunteers.
Catholic Charities Atlanta is a social service agency with a Service Center on Parklake Drive. It offers counseling, English and citizenship classes, housing counseling, immigration legal help, help applying for food stamps and other benefits, refugee services, and support for veterans. Many services are offered in English and Spanish.
The International Rescue Committee's Atlanta office helps refugees and immigrants build new lives in Georgia. New refugees get a furnished home, rent help, health care, food and case management. People in the wider community can get help with immigration applications, English classes and career help.
This is the Georgia state office that helps families and children. You can use it to apply for food stamps (SNAP), cash help, and Medicaid, or to report child abuse. It also runs foster care and helps with child care and energy bills.
This is the Georgia state agency that runs family and children's services. Through its website and Georgia Gateway, you can apply for Medicaid, SNAP (food stamps), TANF cash help, energy help, and more. It also takes child abuse reports and works with foster and adoptive families.
The Clarkston Community Center is a nonprofit gathering place that opened in 1994. It offers free English classes, computer classes, youth after-school and summer programs, a morning program for older refugees, and arts and wellness classes. It also gives out emergency food and rents event space.
