152 organizations
We are still writing the honest guide for this category. In the meantime, the organizations below are ready to help.
Warrior Bride Ministries is a faith-based nonprofit in Marietta that helps survivors of childhood sexual exploitation, sex trafficking, ritual abuse, and severe trauma. They offer free or donation-based prayer ministry, inner healing, groups, online classes, safe house support, and training for people who help survivors.
10 services
Mighty Oaks Foundation is a Christian nonprofit that helps veterans, active-duty service members, first responders, spouses, and some allied military interpreters who are dealing with trauma and life after service. It runs free peer-led recovery and resiliency programs, aftercare groups, marriage support, and speaker events at ranches and partner sites across the U.S.
6 services
ACE, also called Achieving Community Enrichment, is A.C.E. Community Support Services LLC in Marietta. They provide mental and behavioral health services for children, teens, adults, and families, including counseling, intensive family support, substance abuse help, and group training.
6 services
Cancer Support Community is a national nonprofit that helps people affected by cancer. They offer free phone and online support, help finding resources, online community spaces, education, and connections to local CSC or Gilda's Club programs.
11 services
The Max Foundation is a Seattle-based global health nonprofit, not an Atlanta local agency. It helps people with cancer and other critical illnesses in low- and middle-income countries get medicine, diagnostic testing, transportation help, education support, and patient support at no cost through partner doctors and institutions.
9 services
Atlanta Quality Care Solutions, LLC is a mental health and substance use treatment provider in Conyers, Georgia. They help children, adults, and families with counseling, psychiatric treatment, medication management, intensive outpatient care, family-based services, partial hospitalization, and peer wellness support.
6 services
Charlie Health provides virtual intensive outpatient mental health care for kids, teens, and adults who need more support than weekly therapy. It offers online group therapy, individual therapy, family therapy, medication support, crisis support, and substance use treatment for people in Georgia, including Atlanta and Marietta.
6 services
Georgia Regional Service Committee of Narcotics Anonymous helps people find Narcotics Anonymous recovery meetings across Georgia. It shares meeting schedules, a helpline, recovery information, and volunteer programs that bring NA support into facilities and help people connect after release.
7 services
Raksha is an Atlanta nonprofit, started in 1995, that helps South Asian families who are dealing with domestic violence, sexual abuse, or family problems. They offer free, private help in many South Asian languages, including a confidential helpline, counseling, legal and immigration support, safety planning, and help finding housing, food, and other resources.
6 services
Parent to Parent of Georgia (P2P Georgia) is a statewide nonprofit that supports families and individuals impacted by disabilities or special health care needs, from birth to age 26. They match families with trained parent volunteers who have been through similar situations, run support groups and training, and offer a free online Special Needs Database with thousands of local resources and providers.
6 services
Right Side Up is a free, long-term residential addiction recovery program for women with substance use disorders who have young children (under age 13). Part of MARR Addiction Treatment Centers, the roughly six-month program lets moms live on-site with up to two children and includes counseling, trauma recovery, parenting classes, job-skills training, medical care, and therapeutic childcare. Pregnant women and IV drug users get priority for a bed.
5 services
The Women's Resource Center to End Domestic Violence (now becoming "In Safe Company") helps people in DeKalb County who are facing domestic violence or sexual assault. They run a 24-hour crisis hotline, a confidential emergency safe house, counseling and support groups, legal help with protective orders, and programs for children and elders. All services are free and confidential, and the agency welcomes everyone, including LGBTQ+ survivors.
15 services
Family Support Services is a Georgia state program (run by DBHDD) that helps families who care for a loved one with an intellectual or developmental disability at home, such as autism, cerebral palsy, or Down syndrome. A Family Support Coordinator works with each family to build a plan that can include respite care, referrals, family education, social and recreational activities, and help finding medical equipment. It is for people who do not already get NOW/COMP Waiver services, and you apply through a local community provider.
1 service
Ezekiel's Valley is a faith-based residential recovery ministry in Atlanta, founded in 1997, that helps adult men who are homeless or living with HIV/AIDS and recovering from drug or alcohol addiction. Residents get a furnished place to live, meals, drug screening, 12-step and life-skills classes, and help finding a job. The program asks for a commitment to long-term recovery, usually at least a six-month stay.
6 services
Alliance Recovery Center is an outpatient clinic in Decatur that helps adults recover from opioid and other drug addiction. They provide medication-assisted treatment (methadone and buprenorphine) along with individual and group counseling, medical monitoring, and peer support. You come in during morning hours to get your daily medicine and work with a counselor on staying in recovery.
5 services
Veterans Counseling Veterans (VCV) is a veteran-led nonprofit based in Tampa, Florida that works to prevent veteran suicide and improve mental wellness for veterans and their families. They mostly help by matching veterans with the right counselor and offering peer mentorship, suicide-prevention training, and support programs, largely by phone and online. They are not based in Atlanta, but their referral and virtual services can reach veterans anywhere.
8 services
Abuse Recovery Ministry & Services (ARMS) is a faith-based nonprofit that helps people heal from domestic and other abuse, always for free. Their Her Journey program is a 15-week support class for women, and they offer programs for men too. Atlanta-area residents can join classes online or at select in-person groups.
3 services
Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered, faith-based support group for anyone struggling with hurts, habits, or hang-ups like addiction, drugs, alcohol, codependency, or painful life experiences. This listing is their free online Zoom meeting, which meets every Wednesday and is open to people anywhere who do not have a local group nearby. They use a 12-step program and 8 recovery principles, and you can also use their group finder to find an in-person church group near you.
4 services
SIRA (Self-Injury Recovery & Awareness) is a nonprofit that helps people stop and heal from self-injury through free, peer-led support groups led by people who have been through it themselves. Meetings happen online over Zoom on most days of the week, with separate groups for teens and adults, plus journaling-based recovery materials. The only requirement to join is a desire to stop hurting yourself; you sign up through a short screening form on their website.
4 services
Awaken Voices Domestic Violence Services is a nonprofit that helps people who have been hurt by domestic violence. They offer free, confidential support like safety planning, counseling, support groups, legal advocacy, and empowerment workshops. They also lead community education and awareness events across metro Atlanta.
7 services
