Day League helps people in DeKalb County who have been sexually assaulted, whether it happened last night or years ago. It is part of Women's Resource Center to End Domestic Violence. A trained advocate answers the hotline at any hour, and free help includes counselling, support groups, legal advocacy and an advocate who can go with you to the hospital.
The SAFE Center is part of Grady Health. It helps anyone affected by sexual violence. A trained team offers a crisis line that is open all day and night, support during medical exams in the emergency department, counseling, and help with legal choices.
The Georgia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council is a state agency. It runs money help and programs for crime victims, and it gives out grants for criminal justice and victim service groups. It also leads Georgia's work against human trafficking, including a statewide hotline.
The Wellness Empowerment Center is part of Georgia Tech. It helps students and staff with health and wellness, nutrition, and sexual violence prevention and support. Its VOICE advocates give confidential help by phone at any hour to students affected by sexual harassment, sexual assault, partner violence, or stalking.
This is the Fulton County District Attorney's office, led by Fani T. Willis. It has divisions for domestic violence cases and for special victims cases such as sexual assault and child abuse. The pages show the team and news about its cases, but give no steps for getting help.
This group helps survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in the Atlanta area. It has 24-hour hotlines, a private safe house, support groups, and legal help. It is changing its name to In Safe Company, so you may see either name.
Grady is a large public hospital in downtown Atlanta. It has a Level 1 trauma center and emergency care, plus primary care, women's health, stroke, heart, cancer, orthopedic and surgery care. It also has neighborhood health centers around the Atlanta area.
Karibu Community Legacy is a nonprofit in Tucker that helps people who have faced sexual or domestic violence. It focuses on African immigrant and refugee communities, but it says it serves anyone who needs help. It offers advocacy, counseling, legal support, support groups, and help in many languages, and says its services are free.
This is Georgia's Crime Victims Compensation Program, part of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council. It helps people hurt by violent crime pay for medical bills, counseling, funeral costs, lost income or support, and crime scene cleanup, up to $25,000 per victim. You can apply online or by mail.
Women's Clinic of Atlanta has an office in Decatur. It gives pregnancy tests, abortion screening, STI testing and treatment, birth control visits, and other sexual health care. Pregnancy testing and abortion screening are free, and lab and prescription fees can apply to other care. The Decatur office does not give abortions or refer people for them.
The Latin American Association helps Latino families and immigrants in the Atlanta area. It offers immigration legal help, basic needs and benefits help, job and English classes, youth programs, and support for people facing violence. Most services are by appointment, so call first.
Raksha is an Atlanta-area nonprofit that has helped the South Asian American community since 1995. It gives free, private help to survivors of family violence, sexual assault and other crime, including adults and children. Staff can talk with you in English and several South Asian languages.
Tahirih Justice Center is a national nonprofit with an office in Atlanta that gives free, private legal and social services to immigrants who have faced violence because of their gender, such as domestic violence, sexual assault, forced marriage or trafficking. Its lawyers help with immigration cases like asylum, VAWA, T visas, U visas and special immigrant juvenile status, and its social services team helps with safety planning and connecting to other help. The Atlanta office serves survivors across Georgia. They do not take walk-ins, so start by calling.
Amani Women Center is a nonprofit in Clarkston that helps refugee and immigrant women and survivors of violence. Staff and community ambassadors help people apply for benefits like SNAP and Medicaid, get interpreters and translation, and get immigration help. It also runs a 12-month sewing academy that builds job skills.
Warrior Bride Ministries is a Christian ministry in Marietta. It helps survivors of severe trauma and childhood sexual exploitation through prayer sessions, online groups and classes, training, and a yearly conference. Programs run on donations, and the ministry says no survivor is turned away because of money.
The Georgia Center for Child Advocacy helps children who have been sexually abused, seriously physically abused, or who saw a violent crime. It offers free forensic interviews, support for families, and trauma therapy for children and their caregivers in Fulton and DeKalb counties. It also trains adults and professionals across Georgia to prevent child abuse.
Revved Up Kids is a nonprofit that teaches children, teens, parents, schools and youth groups how to stay safe from sexual abuse, trafficking and online predators. They teach self-defense and safety classes in person, on Zoom and by video. Groups can ask for private training, and public classes are offered from time to time around metro Atlanta.
GNESA is a Georgia nonprofit group of sexual assault centers and people who want to end sexual violence. It does not help victims directly. It trains advocates, medical providers and police, and it points people to local sexual assault centers.
The Link Counseling Center in Sandy Springs has offered low-cost counseling since 1971. It has therapy for individuals, couples, and families. It also runs free grief groups for children and teens and for people who lost someone to suicide, trains therapists, and welcomes volunteers.
Raindrops Rising Foundation is a survivor-run group based in Porter County, Indiana. It runs a free, private crisis phone line that is open all day and night for survivors of sexual violence and human trafficking. Its advocates can also go with survivors to hospitals and court, and the group trains schools and professionals.
