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.
Anchor Hospital is a 122-bed hospital near the Atlanta airport for mental health and substance use care. It helps teens, adults, and older adults with hospital stays and with day or evening programs where people go home at night. Its assessments are free and open any time of day.
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.
The Objective Zero Foundation works to prevent suicide among service members, veterans, their families, and caregivers. Its free app connects people to trained volunteer peer supporters by text, voice, or video, and points them to wellness resources. It is not a crisis line.
The Emory Healthcare Veterans Program gives no-cost mental health care to veterans and service members who served at least one day after September 11, 2001. It treats post-traumatic stress, brain injury, military sexual trauma, anxiety, and depression. The main treatment is a two-week accelerated program, offered in person or online, and the program says it covers travel, lodging and meals too.
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.
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.
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.
S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its main hospital, the Joseph Maxwell Cleland Atlanta VA Medical Center, is on Clairmont Road in Decatur. Enrolled veterans can get primary care, mental health care, specialty care, emergency care, and help for veterans who are homeless.
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.
Mission 22 is a national nonprofit for veterans, service members, military spouses, and their families. It offers no-cost wellness coaching and an online course, a volunteer ambassador network, and memorials for veterans lost to PTS, TBI, or MST. It is not a crisis service.
PTSD Foundation of America helps veterans and their families who are struggling with combat trauma. It runs Camp Hope, a free housing and healing program in Houston, Texas. It also runs outreach chapters (the site names Atlanta as one), peer support groups, and a 24-hour help line answered by a combat veteran.
Special Equestrians of Georgia is a nonprofit horse farm in Milton, near Alpharetta. It offers horse-assisted therapy for people and families dealing with depression, trauma, PTSD, anxiety, and addiction. Its Carry On Project offers weekly sessions with horses for military veterans, and the group also offers therapeutic riding for children and adults with disabilities.
Twin Lakes Recovery Center helps adults who struggle with alcohol or drug addiction, including people who also have mental health needs. It offers detox and live-in treatment at its Monroe campus, evening outpatient care in Gainesville, and support for families and past clients. It also has a program for veterans and first responders.
Vets4Warriors is a national peer support program staffed by veterans and military family members. Service members, veterans, their families and caregivers can talk with someone who has lived the military life, day or night. Peers listen, connect people to resources, and keep following up until the problem is solved.
Paws For Life USA is a volunteer-run nonprofit in Marietta that trains service dogs together with the people who will use them. Dogs can be trained for needs like autism, mobility, seizures, hearing and PTSD. They also train therapy and facility dogs and give talks on service dog laws, first aid and disaster help.
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.
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.
The Psychological Health Center of Excellence is a U.S. Department of Defense center. Its inTransition program gives free, private phone coaching to service members, National Guard and reserve members, veterans and retirees who need to connect with mental health care after a move, a deployment, or leaving the military. It is a national program that works by phone, email and online chat, so you do not need to live in Atlanta.
Stop Suicide USA is a group that trains people to step in when someone may be thinking about suicide. Its main class is the Intervene Challenge, open to anyone 18 and older. It also says it gives rapid-response suicide intervention to veterans, first responders and community members who are at risk.
