89 organizations
We are still writing the honest guide for this category. In the meantime, the organizations below are ready to help.
Partnership Against Domestic Violence (PADV) is a long-running Atlanta nonprofit that helps people who are being hurt or threatened by a partner or family member. They run a free, 24-hour crisis line and offer safe emergency shelter, counseling, safety planning, legal advocacy, support groups, and help moving into stable housing. Call any time to talk to someone and get help making a plan to stay safe.
14 services
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
Veterans Empowerment Organization (VEO) is an Atlanta nonprofit that helps U.S. veterans who are homeless or at risk of losing their homes. They offer emergency and long-term housing, mental health and addiction care, counseling, rental help, and job training to get veterans back on their feet. They welcome veterans regardless of past drug use or criminal record.
Grove Park6 services
7 Bridges to Recovery is a faith-based Christian ministry in the Atlanta area that helps men get off the streets and break free from addiction. Their main offering is a free, year-long residential discipleship program for men that provides housing, recovery support, life skills, and case management. They also run a street ministry that hands out food, clothing, and prayer to people who are homeless or in need.
3 services
The Northeast Georgia Homeless Veterans Shelter is a faith-based nonprofit in Winder that helps homeless male veterans and their families. It is the only veterans shelter in Northeast Georgia and provides a place to stay, meals, clothing, and job and life skills training. Staff also help veterans get VA benefits and move into permanent housing through the VA housing voucher program.
5 services
Atlanta Recovery Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, founded in 1969, that provides transitional housing for homeless men 18 and older in metro Atlanta. For a small fee of $12 a day or $74 a week, men get a dormitory bed, clean linens, hot showers, daily meals, and a safe, drug-free place to stay. The center also helps with clothing, job searching, and referrals to free medical clinics and treatment programs.
6 services
New Horizon Recovery Center is a Christian, faith-based addiction recovery program and a ministry of Teen Challenge Georgia International. They run a year-long live-in (residential) program that helps men struggling with drug and alcohol addiction get sober, rebuild their lives, and learn job skills. Graduates can get transitional housing and help finding work.
4 services
Rising Sun Recovery is a recovery residence in Hiram, Georgia (west of Atlanta) for people working to recover from drug and alcohol addiction. Residents get a safe, sober place to live with housing and utilities, a recovery coach, a case manager to help find a job, and support through a 12-step recovery community. It is part of the GARR network of certified recovery residences in Georgia.
8 services
Veterans Empowerment Organization (VEO) is an Atlanta nonprofit, founded in 2008, that helps veterans rebuild their lives and become self-sufficient. They provide transitional and permanent housing, job training and workforce support, and behavioral health care for mental health and substance use. Veterans in need can call them or stop by their West Lake Avenue campus to get connected to services.
4 services
Trinity Community Ministries runs Trinity House–Big Bethel, a 36-bed program in downtown Atlanta for men who are homeless and struggling with drugs or alcohol. It gives men a safe place to live along with recovery support, classes, and life skills. The goal is to help each man find a steady job, save money, get his own housing, and reconnect with his family. (Note: this listing is filed under the name 'Good Shepherd Recovery House,' but the website, address, and phone all belong to Trinity Community Ministries.)
Downtown3 services
Good Shepherd Recovery House is a Christ-based residential recovery program for men 18 and older who are struggling with drug or alcohol addiction. Men live on-site for at least 12 months and get a 12-step recovery program, counseling, church services, and help finding a job. The home, on 36 acres in Jasper, GA, also offers transitional sober housing for men who have finished treatment or are in drug court.
4 services
West Georgia Domestic Violence Shelter is a nonprofit that helps people and their children escape abuse in five rural counties west of Atlanta (Carroll, Heard, Haralson, Coweta, and Meriwether). They run a safe emergency shelter with meals, clothing, and case management, plus a 24-hour crisis line, support groups, help getting protective orders, classes, and some transitional housing and financial help.
9 services
Atlanta Recovery Center is a nonprofit that has helped homeless men in Atlanta since 1969. It offers low-cost, drug-free transitional housing with a bed, clean linens, hot showers, toiletries, and daily meals while men work to get back on their feet. To stay, men must be sober and pass a drug or alcohol test.
2 services
Veterans Empowerment Organization (VEO) helps veterans who are homeless or about to lose their housing get back on their feet. On their Atlanta campus they offer a place to stay (emergency, transitional, and permanent housing), counseling for mental health and substance use, and job training to help veterans find steady work. There are no barriers to getting a bed, regardless of drug use or criminal history.
6 services
Rising Sun Recovery is a nonprofit recovery housing program in Hiram, Georgia for people working to stay sober from drugs and alcohol. They give residents a safe place to live, a recovery coach, and a case manager who helps them find work, all built around a 12-step recovery community.
6 services
Partnership Against Domestic Violence (PADV) is an Atlanta nonprofit that has helped people escape and heal from domestic abuse since 1975. They run a free 24-hour crisis line, emergency shelter for women and children, longer-term supportive housing, counseling, support groups, legal advocacy, and safety planning. They also teach prevention in schools and the community across metro Atlanta.
10 services
Good Shepherd Recovery House is a faith-based, Christ-centered residential recovery program for men 18 and older who are struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. It runs a 12-month state-licensed treatment program and separate transitional housing on a 36-acre property in Jasper, GA, using the Celebrate Recovery 12-step approach. Many residents come through the courts or drug court, and the program helps them get sober, find work, and rebuild their lives.
3 services
Ezekiel's Valley is a faith-based recovery ministry (started in 1997) that runs a transitional home for men 18 and older who are recovering from drug or alcohol addiction, including men living with HIV/AIDS or coming out of homelessness. Residents live there for at least six months and get nutritious meals, daily 12-step meetings, group therapy, substance-abuse and HIV education, drug screening, life-skills classes, and help finding work. It is a sober living home, not a treatment center, so men must already be stable in their recovery before moving in.
8 services
Atlanta Recovery Center is a nonprofit that has helped homeless men in downtown Atlanta since 1969. They offer drug-free, dormitory-style transitional housing for men, with a bed, clean linens, toiletries, and hot showers for $12 per day. It is fully self-supported and uses no government funds.
2 services
This is Community Concerns, Inc., a nonprofit that helps homeless people in Atlanta move into stable housing and jobs (the 605 Spencer St site is their Odyssey Villas housing). It provides supportive housing with single-room units, case management, hot meals through a soup kitchen, and job and life-skills support. It is NOT a drug or alcohol recovery center, despite the name on file.
Vine City4 services
