Substance Use & Recovery

Smokefree.gov is a National Cancer Institute program that helps people in the United States quit smoking, vaping, and tobacco. It offers free text programs, an app, online tools, live chat, and phone counseling in English and Spanish.

9 services

VetLinks.org is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that helps combat veterans, caregivers, and families dealing with PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and substance use concerns. They offer one-on-one support, help people find treatment and resources, and may provide financial help or referrals when VA care does not meet a family's needs.

3 services

To Write Love on Her Arms is a national nonprofit based in Melbourne, Florida, not an Atlanta-based service site. It helps people facing depression, addiction, self-injury, suicide, and other mental health struggles by connecting them to resources, funding therapy scholarships, hosting online peer support, and sharing mental health tools.

7 services

Lyme Disease Resource Center, Inc. is a volunteer-run nonprofit based in Northampton, Massachusetts. It helps people with Lyme disease, tick-borne illness, chronic illness, and their care partners through free Zoom support groups, peer counseling, education events, and referrals.

6 services

Honor Connor, also called Honor Connor | Hold Onto Hope, is a nonprofit based in West Simsbury, Connecticut. It helps people affected by suicide loss through free virtual education, grief and suicide-prevention resources, mental health conversation tools, and awareness events.

5 services

Positive Impact Health Centers is a health clinic group in metro Atlanta for people affected by HIV and people who need HIV prevention, testing, and sexual health care. They also offer addiction recovery, counseling, psychiatry, peer support, case management, housing help for eligible patients, pharmacy services, telehealth, and other support.

12 services

Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is a national nonprofit that helps people and families affected by substance use and mental health conditions. I did not verify an Atlanta office, but it offers online family education, coaching, support groups, children’s and teen programs, and a 24/7 help line.

12 services

Changing Phases Behavioral Support is a mental health and substance use agency in Marietta. They help adults, youth, and families with counseling, outpatient treatment, opioid treatment, psychiatric care, recovery support, and recovery housing.

12 services

The TEARS Foundation helps families after the death of a baby or child. They offer funeral and memorial financial help when funds are available, plus grief support groups, peer support, child-loss centers, remembrance events, and memorial programs.

14 services

Mental Health First Aid is a national training program run by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. It teaches people how to notice signs of mental health or substance use problems, give first support, and connect someone to help. Courses can be in person, online, or blended, and some trainings are for adults, youth, schools, workplaces, and instructors.

4 services

Clarvida of Georgia provides mental health and behavioral health services for adults, children, and families. The Columbus office offers outpatient care, ACT, peer support, supported employment, and residential support for people with serious mental health needs.

6 services

Hope is Alive is a faith-based addiction recovery nonprofit. It runs sober living homes, a 45-day recovery campus, online recovery support, and support groups for families and people grieving a death from addiction.

9 services

Atlanta Redemption Ink is a survivor-led nonprofit based in McDonough, Georgia. It helps survivors of trafficking, exploitation, gang involvement, addiction, self-harm, and violence by connecting them with trauma-informed tattoo cover-ups, tattoo removal, scar revision, counseling, education support, and survivor-led training.

8 services

Brave Health is a virtual mental health provider. They help people get online therapy, psychiatric medication visits, group therapy, family counseling, and special therapy programs like DBT and EMDR. They accept many insurance plans, including Medicaid, Medicare, and commercial insurance, and serve Georgia and other states by telehealth.

8 services

Healing Bridge Clinic is a nonprofit clinic in Peachtree City that gives free non-emergency health care to uninsured adults who qualify. It helps with primary care, some specialty care, limited dental and vision referrals, mental health and addiction counseling, women’s wellness care, labs, imaging, medicine refills, and flu shots.

9 services

Fireweed Collective offers mental health education, peer support, and mutual aid through healing justice and disability justice. Its support groups meet online and center people who are queer, trans, BIPOC, disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, or dealing with mental health struggles.

6 services