152 organizations
We are still writing the honest guide for this category. In the meantime, the organizations below are ready to help.
Emotions Anonymous International runs a 12-step peer support program for people who want better emotional well-being. It helps people find in-person, phone, and online meetings, and it shares program materials, but it is not a crisis line, counseling service, medical provider, or referral service.
8 services
Parents of Addicted Loved Ones (PAL) is a national nonprofit based in Phoenix, not a local Atlanta office. It helps parents, spouses, family members, and friends of adults with substance use disorder through free support groups, education, online meetings, and meeting-startup support.
6 services
Innovia Behavioral Health, now branded as Innovia Life, offers online live group support for mental health, recovery, wellness, stress, and relationships. Its groups are educational and supportive, and the site says they do not treat, diagnose, or prescribe; they can refer people to therapists and other resources.
12 services
Bereaved Parents of the USA is a volunteer-run nonprofit for parents, siblings, and grandparents grieving the death of a child, sibling, or grandchild. It helps through local and virtual peer support chapters, grief education, remembrance activities, and a national gathering.
5 services
The American Lung Association is a national health nonprofit that helps people with lung disease, lung cancer, asthma, COPD, and tobacco quitting. People can call, chat, or fill out forms to get free help from nurses, respiratory therapists, tobacco treatment specialists, and navigators.
10 services
Pay What You Can Peer Support is a nonprofit that runs online peer support groups for mental health and life challenges. People choose a group, book online, join by Zoom, and pay what they can after the session.
13 services
Bone Marrow & Cancer Foundation is a national nonprofit that helps cancer and transplant patients, survivors, and families. It offers free help with patient navigation, counseling, peer support, fundraising, housing assistance, and referrals.
10 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
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
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
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
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
Co-Dependents Anonymous, or CoDA, is a nonprofessional 12-step fellowship for people who want healthier and more loving relationships. They help through peer support meetings, including in-person, online, phone, step-study, and teen meetings.
7 services
ThyCa is a nonprofit for people with thyroid cancer, their families, caregivers, and health care professionals. It offers free education, support groups, one-to-one peer support, webinars, publications, awareness events, and research grants. It is not a senior-only program and has an Atlanta support group that currently meets virtually.
10 services
DailyStrength is an online support community owned by Sharecare, Inc. People join virtual support groups to talk with others about health problems, mental health, addiction and recovery, relationships, parenting, grief, and other life challenges. It is peer support and should not be used as medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
2 services
ANAD is a national nonprofit that gives free peer support for people dealing with eating disorders, body image concerns, or a hard relationship with food. They help by phone, online support groups, a recovery mentor program, treatment referrals, and education resources.
6 services
Give an Hour is a national nonprofit that offers no-cost mental health support for people affected by trauma. It helps military members, veterans, families, financial fraud survivors, rare disease caregivers, justice-impacted people, and others through counseling, peer support groups, training, and online tools.
9 services
The Extension is a long-term residential recovery program in Marietta for adults age 25 and older who are homeless and have substance use disorders. It provides housing, counseling, groups, life skills, job readiness, family support, case management, and medication-assisted treatment for eligible clients.
5 services
