147 organizations
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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.
5 services
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.
7 services
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.
West End5 services
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.
Downtown5 services
