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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is a free, private line for people in emotional distress or thinking about suicide. You can call, text, or chat with a trained counselor any time, day or night. It serves the whole United States and its territories.
RAINN is the largest national nonprofit working against sexual violence. It runs the free, private National Sexual Assault Hotline, open 24 hours a day, which connects callers to a local sexual assault center. You can also use online chat, text, WhatsApp or Signal, in English or Spanish. This is a national service, not an Atlanta 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.
The Marietta Vet Center is a small, non-medical counseling center run by the VA. It gives Veterans, service members, and their families free, private help with things like PTSD, depression, and military sexual trauma. It also offers groups and can connect you to other help in the community.
SoldierStrong is a national nonprofit based in Stamford, Connecticut, not in Atlanta. It gives medical technology to VA hospitals and to individual veterans. This includes virtual reality therapy for PTSD, robotic walking suits, and iBOT wheelchairs. It also gives scholarships to veterans, but its 2026 scholarship applications are closed.
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.
Maze of Life Resource Center offers counseling, life skills and coaching, and classes that courts, probation, parole or child-welfare caseworkers may require. Adults, young people and families can come in person or join online. The Georgia office on Park Lake Drive is in northeast Atlanta, and all services are also offered in Spanish.
