152 organizations
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Ben's Friends is a sober support community for people who work in restaurants, bars, and other food and beverage jobs. They offer free peer support meetings online and in person, including a weekly Atlanta meeting at Pricci Restaurant.
7 services
Crystal Meth Anonymous is a free peer support fellowship for people who want to stop using crystal meth and other mind-altering substances. Members meet in person and online, share recovery experience, and help each other stay sober. CMA also has a 24-hour helpline staffed by CMA members who can help callers find meetings and learn about the fellowship.
6 services
Women’s Resource Center is a nonprofit serving women and families in Manatee and Sarasota counties in Florida. It helps with counseling, career support, financial education, legal and resource advising, Spanish-language programs, and a support group for people affected by a loved one’s addiction.
12 services
Davis Direction Foundation runs The Zone in Marietta, a recovery community space for people affected by substance use. They help people stay in recovery through peer support, recovery meetings, community connections, outreach, education, prevention, harm reduction, and re-entry support.
5 services
SHE RECOVERS Foundation is a nonprofit recovery community for women, femmes, and non-binary people who identify with women’s communities. They offer online support gatherings, identity-based groups, recovery education, yoga, dance, retreats, and trusted recovery resources for people healing from substance use, trauma, mental health struggles, grief, burnout, and other life challenges.
13 services
Womens Health First is a Georgia nonprofit that promotes women’s health through education, advocacy, and support. It serves vulnerable women and families in Clayton County and Metro Atlanta, with programs on diabetes prevention, community health, mental health, and support groups for Muslim immigrant and refugee women.
6 services
TAPS is a national nonprofit for people grieving the death of a military or veteran loved one. They help by phone 24/7, connect survivors with peer support, grief resources, counseling referrals, casework help, youth programs, and education support.
9 services
Rageaholics Anonymous is a 12-step fellowship for people who want to stop compulsive and destructive rage. They offer free phone and Zoom meetings where members share support, work the steps, and help each other stay away from rage.
9 services
Covenant Hills is a Christian addiction treatment center in Orange County, California. It helps adults with drug or alcohol addiction and co-occurring mental health needs through detox assessment, residential treatment, day treatment, intensive outpatient care, transitional care, and aftercare. I did not verify an Atlanta-area location for this organization.
8 services
Narcotics Anonymous World Services supports the worldwide Narcotics Anonymous fellowship. NA helps people with drug addiction through free peer support meetings, virtual meetings, recovery literature, and service resources, but it is not a medical treatment program or counseling agency.
9 services
Truth Initiative is a national nonprofit public health group based in Washington, DC. It helps people quit smoking, vaping, and other nicotine products through free online and text support, and it also runs youth prevention education, research, policy, and community programs.
9 services
Atlanta Center for Wellness is an outpatient mental health and wellness practice in Atlanta. It offers therapy, psychiatry, nutrition support, eating disorder care, groups, and family support through its COPE program and other services.
12 services
Alsana, Inc. is an eating disorder treatment provider. It offers virtual PHP and IOP treatment for adults and teens in Georgia, including Atlanta, plus in-person treatment programs in Alabama and California. Its free online support group is listed as temporarily paused, but its 24/7 live chat and admissions phone line are active.
10 services
Inheritance of Hope helps families when a parent has a terminal illness or when the family is grieving after that loss. They offer free online support groups, family retreats, local gatherings, legacy videos, legacy songs, and an app with resources.
8 services
Dismas Charities helps people leaving state and federal incarceration re-enter the community. Its re-entry centers focus on education, job help, and family support so people can build stable lives after prison.
5 services
A Breath of Hope Lung Foundation is a Minnesota-based lung cancer nonprofit that funds research, teaches people about lung cancer, and supports patients, survivors, caregivers, and grieving families. It offers virtual support groups, peer support, education, wellness tools, nutrition help, and limited free rides for lung cancer care through Twin Cities health partners.
10 services
TRIO is a nonprofit group for transplant candidates, transplant recipients, organ and tissue donors, and their families. It helps people through education, peer support, advocacy, scholarships, chapter connections, and some transplant-related travel help.
7 services
AliveRVA is a peer recovery warm line based in Richmond, Virginia. Peer recovery coaches with lived experience listen by phone and help people dealing with substance use connect to treatment, recovery housing, shelters, food banks, community services boards, health care, and other resources.
2 services
The Wildflower Alliance is a peer support, advocacy, and training group based in Western Massachusetts. It helps people who have lived through mental health struggles, trauma, homelessness, substance use, or other hard life experiences through a warmline, online support, groups, respite, advocacy, and community programs.
12 services
Caron Treatment Centers is a nonprofit addiction treatment provider. Its Atlanta outpatient center helps teens, adults, young adults, and families with substance use assessments, counseling, intensive outpatient groups, family support, neurotherapy, and recovery support.
13 services
