The Willie F. Ash Organization is a nonprofit that helps veterans move from military to civilian life. It serves all veterans, with a main focus on women veterans and their families. It helps with VA benefits claims, food and clothing, street outreach to homeless veterans, and youth mentoring.
The Atlanta Vet Center is a small counseling center in College Park for Veterans, service members, and their families. It offers free, private counseling for things like PTSD, depression, grief, and military sexual trauma. It is not a medical clinic, and you do not need to be signed up for VA care to use it.
Wounded Warrior Project is a national group for veterans and service members who were hurt, became ill, or were injured on or after September 11, 2001. Their families and caregivers can get help too. They offer mental health, physical wellness, VA benefits help, career help, money coaching and peer connection at no cost to registered warriors and families.
This is the VA Public Health program on military exposures. It helps Veterans learn about health problems linked to things like Agent Orange, burn pits, Gulf War service, radiation and embedded fragments. It offers free registry health exams, screening, and information on VA care and benefits.
This is the VA health care system for veterans in the Atlanta area. Its main medical center is at 1670 Clairmont Road in Decatur, and it has many clinics around the area. It offers primary care, mental health care, a pharmacy, emergency care, women's health care, and social work help.
VA Atlanta health care helps Veterans who are homeless or could lose their home. A homeless services care coordinator can help with food, shelter, housing, job training, and treatment for addiction and depression.
Arms Wide Open is a Stone Mountain group that supports people with disabilities and chronic illnesses. It helps people reach social and medical services, get care at home, get mobility equipment, and file for benefits.
This is the Georgia state agency that helps veterans and their families, caregivers, and survivors get the benefits they are owed. Trained service officers at field offices around the state help people file and appeal claims. The agency also runs two state veterans homes and two veterans cemeteries.
This is the main VA hospital in Decatur for the VA Atlanta Health Care System. It serves Veterans with primary care, pharmacy, mental health care, women's health care and emergency care that is open all day and night. It also offers social work help, nurse advice by phone, and a clinic for same-day mental health help.
DAV is a national nonprofit that gives veterans and their families free help. Its benefits advocates help with VA claims and appeals. It also runs free volunteer-driver rides to VA medical places, caregiver support, and job help. You enter your ZIP code on its website to find the nearest office.
VA Atlanta Health Care System gives health care and support to Veterans in northeast Georgia. Its main site is on Clairmont Road in Decatur, and it has many clinics around metro Atlanta. Services include primary care, pharmacy, mental health care, emergency care, women's health care, and social work.
American Legion Bolton Post 156 is a veterans post at 2352 Bolton Rd NW in Atlanta. It offers help with filing disability claims and rents its hall and 35 acres of grounds for events. It also holds community events such as a Friday fish fry and a business networking afternoon.
The VA is the federal agency that helps veterans with benefits. Its housing pages explain grants that help veterans with certain service-connected disabilities buy or change a home, plus VA home loans and help to avoid foreclosure.
This is the VA benefits office in Decatur. Staff help Veterans, service members, and their families with VA benefits like disability pay, job and school help, pensions, and home loans. You can walk in or make an appointment.
Paralyzed Veterans of America is a national group that helps veterans, especially those with spinal cord injuries or diseases. Its trained service officers help with VA benefit claims and appeals for free, and it has lawyers, a career program, and caregiver support.
Georgia War Veterans Nursing Home is a skilled nursing home in downtown Augusta for Georgia veterans who served during war times. The State Department of Veterans Service owns it, and Augusta University runs it. Eligible veterans pay a small daily fee, and the VA pays all of it for some veterans.
Belinda Boldoe is a Veterans of Foreign Waves (VFW) service officer for the state of Georgia. She works at the VA Regional Office in Decatur. She helps veterans and their families file benefit claims and appeal claim decisions, at no cost to the veteran.
Joseph & Sarah Caring for Vets is a nonprofit that helps homeless veterans. They help veterans find permanent housing and apply for the military benefits they may be owed, including VA disability benefits. They also welcome people who want to volunteer.
The Atlanta Vet Center is a small VA counseling center for veterans, service members, and their families. It offers free, private counseling for things like PTSD, depression, grief, and military sexual trauma. It also helps people move back to civilian life and connects them to VA and community help.
HOPE Atlanta’s Veterans Services helps veterans and their families who are homeless or may lose their homes. Staff help people find housing, get rent and utility assistance, and connect with benefits and other support. Help depends on eligibility and available resources.