The Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing is an Episcopal ministry in Atlanta. It trains church leaders and community groups to face racism and work for justice. It offers online racial healing classes, a youth and children's curriculum, shared-meal gatherings, and pilgrimages.
Restore More is an Atlanta education-consulting business that sells restorative-practices training, anti-racism training, and social-emotional learning programs to schools, teachers, and parents. It offers paid professional development, student curriculum kits, and parent workshops rather than free community services.
SisterSong is a national group based in the South and led by women of color. It works for reproductive justice, which means people can make choices about their bodies, families, and health. It offers birth support, labor support trainings, youth programs, and memberships.
Wholistic Stress Control Institute is an Atlanta nonprofit that teaches ways to handle stress and live healthier. It runs classes and programs for kids, teens, young adults, seniors and families. Topics include stress, violence, drug use, HIV and teen pregnancy. It also offers a monthly online anger management class and free resource guides for five metro counties.
Atlanta Redemption Ink is a survivor-led nonprofit. It helps survivors of trafficking, gang life, addiction, jail or prison, and self-harm remove or cover tattoos and scars. It also offers trauma-informed support and trains police, medical staff, and tattoo artists.
Southern Truth and Reconciliation, or STAR, is an Atlanta group started in 2003. Its leaders work with communities in the South on the harm left by racial violence and on rebuilding trust between neighbors. It also helps organize remembrance events for the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre.
The Urban Advocate is a group of neighbors and professionals working to reduce gun violence in Atlanta's historically Black neighborhoods. They offer care after violence happens, restorative justice, and ATLlink, which connects students facing school discipline and their families to support.
ATLlink is a program of The Urban Advocate. It connects Atlanta Public Schools students who got serious school discipline, and their families, to community partners for counseling, mentoring, and academic support. Parents worried about a child's risky behavior can also join on their own through a monthly Future Forward session. Taking part is voluntary.
Southern Women In Motion is an Atlanta-area nonprofit that helps women and girls who have been in prison, jail or rehab, and families who face homelessness. It offers supportive housing, a re-entry program with case management, counseling, job and money classes, and a healing circle and retreats.
POD Society is a nonprofit that works to help people coming home from jail or prison succeed. It offers mentoring, thinking-skills programs, help finding work and housing, and mental health and substance use support for people still inside. It also holds community events on second chances and gun violence.
BEAM is a national nonprofit that builds mental health care and healing spaces for Black and other underserved communities. It trains people, gives out grants, and holds monthly healing circles in Atlanta and online. Atlanta is one of its two hub cities.
This group works to make sure the story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre is told in full. In September 2026 it is holding its first yearly Remembrance Exposition Week with a worship service, a car procession, a history exhibit, a panel, and a three-day mini-conference. People can attend, give, or volunteer.
Radical Optimist Collective is a team of facilitators, coaches, and advisors. They help groups and organizations talk about race and work toward healing and change. They began by guiding groups on visits to the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, and they design each project together with the group they serve.
Be the Bridge is a nonprofit that helps people and groups talk about race and work toward healing and fairness. It runs small community groups, an online community, trainings for organizations and churches, and youth and college programs. Its teaching comes from a Christian view, and it also offers values-based options.
Neighbor. is an Atlanta healing justice group that uses art, learning and spiritual programs to build stronger communities. It centers Black, queer and young people. It also runs a mediation institute and offers workshops, consulting and speaking on conflict, restorative justice and inclusion.
The Fulton County Remembrance Coalition works with the Equal Justice Initiative to remember the 36 people lynched in Fulton County. It collects soil at the lynching sites, works to put up historical markers, and holds talks and events about local history and healing. People can email the group to ask about marker projects or join its mailing list.
The Story We Tell is a community-led project about Atlanta's history of forced labor, racial terror, and erasure. It follows sites like the Chattahoochee Brick Company and the Atlanta Prison Farm. Residents, descendants, artists, youth, and elders can join the list to get updates and hear about gatherings.
