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.
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.
Veterans Empowerment Organization is an Atlanta group that has helped veterans since 2008. It gives homeless or at-risk veterans a place to stay, help with mental health and substance use, and job training. Veterans are not turned away for drug use or a criminal record.
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.
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.
The VA Atlanta Health Care System is the federal health care system for veterans in the Atlanta area. Its main hospital is the Joseph Maxwell Cleland Atlanta VA Medical Center in Decatur, with about 20 clinics around north and central Georgia. It offers primary care, mental health care, specialty care, a pharmacy, help for homeless veterans, and caregiver support.
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.
Hope For The Warriors is a national nonprofit that helps post-9/11 service members, veterans, military spouses, caregivers, and their families. It offers emergency money help, career coaching, counseling, peer support, and scholarships for spouses and caregivers. It has no Atlanta office; you ask for help through an online form and a coordinator contacts you.
Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) helps veterans who have a spinal cord injury or disease, MS, or ALS. Their service officers help veterans, dependents, and survivors file for VA benefits and appeal denied claims for free, and the chapter also offers job help, disability rights advocacy, and adaptive sports. The benefits office is located inside the Atlanta VA Regional Office in Decatur.
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.
American Corporate Partners is a national nonprofit. It pairs transitioning service members, veterans, and some military spouses with a volunteer mentor from a company. Mentors help with career choices, résumés, interviews, networking, and starting a small business, mostly by phone, video, and email.
Helmets to Hardhats is a nonprofit that helps service members and veterans start careers in the construction trades. It works with construction unions to connect people to apprenticeships where they earn while they learn, and it explains how to use GI Bill benefits during training. Its office is in Washington, DC.
Sentinels of Freedom is a national nonprofit based in San Ramon, California. It helps post-9/11 veterans who were wounded or injured finish college or training and start civilian careers. Its Bridge for Education program gives up to four years of help from a case manager, mentoring, tutoring, financial coaching and career support.
Stand Beside Them is a national nonprofit that gives free coaching to Post-9/11 veterans, service members close to leaving the military, military spouses and caregivers. Volunteer coaches who are certified or hold equivalent credentials meet with you online, usually for up to 12 sessions. You can get coaching on careers, leadership, relationships, health and wellness, or starting a business.
The Coalition to Salute America's Heroes is a national nonprofit that started in 2004. It helps veterans who were badly hurt in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and their families. It can help pay urgent bills for people who qualify, sends gift checks before major holidays, and shares lists of job and support resources.
MilMentor is a free online mentoring program for service members, veterans, and military spouses. It pairs them with volunteer mentors who work in many fields. Mentors give career advice, resume feedback, and help with networking and job leads through calls or video meetings.
LockLeed International is a veteran-owned hiring firm in Minneapolis. It helps veterans and transitioning service members find permanent civilian jobs, and it is free for job seekers. Employers pay the fees. The firm focuses on Minnesota, so ask whether it can help in Atlanta.
