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.
The Warrior Alliance is an Atlanta nonprofit for service members, veterans, and their families. You fill out a short form, and a navigator works with you on a personal plan. They then connect you with partner groups for things like health care, jobs, school, housing referrals, benefits, legal help, and money skills.
Speak Life Worldwide is a nonprofit that helps veterans and their families who are homeless or struggling. Its Veterans Assistance Program offers help with food, clothing, shelter, reading and math, job training, and job placement. The group says it serves 12 metro Atlanta counties.
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.
Veterans Empowerment Organization (VEO) helps veterans in Atlanta who are homeless or at risk of being homeless. It offers emergency and transitional housing, affordable apartments just for veterans, mental health support, and job and money classes.
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.
Camp Southern Ground is a camp in Fayetteville, Georgia. In the summer it runs week-long sleepaway camps for kids ages 7 to 17. The rest of the year it runs programs for veterans, active-duty service members, and their families, including Warrior Week, Warrior PATHH, and Warrior Family Camp.
Hire Heroes USA is a national nonprofit with its headquarters in Alpharetta. It gives free career help to people leaving the military, veterans, and military spouses. Career advisors coach you one-on-one, review your resume, help you practice interviews, and point you to job openings and training partners.
VETLANTA is a free, volunteer-led veteran networking club in Atlanta, started in 2014. It holds a free summit four times a year, where veterans, military families, employers, schools, and nonprofits meet. Volunteer committees on education, jobs, housing, business, and health care can connect you to a person who can help.
S. government program for service members and veterans who want to teach in K-12 schools. Its website lists links for each state on how to become a teacher, get licensed, and find teaching jobs. The program has very little staff and money right now, so most of its help is pointing you to those state and national resources.
The Salvation Army Center of Hope is a shelter and housing center at 469 Marietta Street in Atlanta. It offers emergency and transitional housing for homeless men, women, and families with children. It also has a 90-day drug treatment program, help moving into permanent housing, a re-entry program, and a program for veterans.
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.
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.
The Technical College System of Georgia runs the state's 22 technical colleges. It offers job training programs, tuition help such as the HOPE Career Grant, dual enrollment for high school students, and adult education with GED testing. It also supports veterans and students who face barriers to school.
Develop & Empower USA (D&E) is a HUD-approved housing counseling agency with its headquarters in East Point, Georgia. It helps people get ready to buy a home, buy one, and keep it, with credit counseling, homebuyer classes, and foreclosure help. It also runs job training, youth, senior, and veteran programs.
D&E, also called Develop and Empower USA, is a HUD-approved housing counseling agency in East Point. It helps people get ready to buy a home, buy one, and keep it, with credit counseling, classes, and foreclosure help. It also runs programs for job skills, youth, seniors, and veterans.
Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency helps people with money struggles get ready for work and find steady jobs. It offers career coaching, job readiness classes, training, job placement, and financial coaching. It serves veterans, people without housing, older workers, young adults, and people coming home from prison.
disABILITY LINK is a Center for Independent Living, which means it is run by and for people with disabilities. It serves Metro Atlanta and nearby counties. It offers peer support, skills training, advocacy, job help, assistive technology, travel training, and help applying for SNAP food benefits.
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.
NCAT is a national nonprofit that helps farmers, ranchers, veterans, and people who use energy. Its National Energy Assistance Referral hotline connects households with their local LIHEAP office, which helps low-income homes pay heating and cooling bills. NCAT also gives farming advice, trains veterans in farming, and offers energy services for businesses and homes.
