Transitional housing

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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MARR's Men's Recovery Center is a residential drug and alcohol treatment program for adult men in the Atlanta area (Doraville). Men live on-site through a phased program that starts with intensive daily care and moves into sober living, with counseling, group therapy, and life-skills training to support long-term recovery.

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The Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center is a free, faith-based residential program in Atlanta that helps men and women recover from drug and alcohol addiction. You live at the center for about six months and take part in counseling, work therapy, life-skills classes, and spiritual support, with meals and housing included. The program does not charge a fee and does not require insurance.

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The Extension is a nonprofit in Marietta that helps adults who are homeless and struggling with drug or alcohol addiction. They run a free 12-month live-in recovery program with counseling, life skills classes, and support, on separate campuses for men and women. There is no cost to enter, and once you have a job you pay back a small part of your income.

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Jesus Set the Captive Free (JSCF) is a faith-based nonprofit that helps homeless men and men with a criminal record get back on their feet. They offer apartment-style transitional housing where rent is based on your income, plus faith-based mentoring, GED classes, and computer/job-skills classes to help you find work. Residents can stay from 6 months up to 24 months.

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Little Debbie's Second Chance Home is a nonprofit (founded 2004, CARF-accredited) that runs structured, home-like residential programs for displaced teens ages 14-18, including pregnant and parenting teens and their babies. They provide safe housing, life-skills and parenting training, education and job-readiness support, counseling, and foster-parent training and child placement. They also serve young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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RWB Housing offers safe, sober, shared housing for adults who are rebuilding their lives — including veterans, people coming out of homelessness, addiction recovery, or prison reentry, and other low-income adults. They provide clean, furnished shared rooms with utilities, kitchen access, and basic needs included, at affordable rent on a sliding scale based on your income. They have 24-hour emergency intake and can sometimes waive or lower the one-time program fee.

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Redeemed Outreach CDC (Redeemed Community Outreach Inc.) is a faith-rooted community development group in Atlanta's West End that has served the neighborhood since the 1990s. Their REDEEM House program offers re-entry and transitional housing for single working women, including help with deposits, first month's rent, furniture, and job training. They also run urban farms, community gardens, and the West End Farmers Market, plus neighborhood safety work through the West End Neighborhood Association.

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Serenity House of Atlanta Ministries is a faith-based nonprofit that runs transitional housing and support for homeless and at-risk adults across several metro Atlanta locations, including separate houses for men and women. Residents live in a structured, supervised home and must be working or looking for work. The program also helps with re-entry after jail or prison, GED and education, job help, and life coaching.

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Georgia Works is a nonprofit that helps chronically homeless men become independent through a 6-to-12-month live-in program. While in the program, men get housing, paid transitional work, case management, and life-skills classes, plus help getting a GED, a driver's license, and a bank account. Men must stay drug- and alcohol-free, work 30+ hours a week, and save part of their pay.

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