Camp Twin Lakes runs accessible camps in Rutledge and Winder, Georgia, for children and families dealing with serious illnesses, disabilities, and other hard life challenges. It offers weeklong overnight summer camps and school-year weekend retreats, run with more than 70 partner groups. It also holds a weekend retreat for service members, veterans, and their families.
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 Alliance Theatre is a professional theater at the Woodruff Arts Center in Midtown Atlanta. It puts on plays and musicals, including shows for families and for babies and toddlers. It also runs classes, teen programs, and programs for schools and teachers.
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.
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.
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.
Project Healing Waters uses fly fishing to help injured and disabled service members and veterans heal. Volunteers run ongoing classes in fly fishing, casting, fly tying and rod building, plus fishing trips. In Georgia there are two local programs, one in Atlanta and one in the northeast Georgia area near Gainesville and Oakwood.
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 High Museum of Art is an art museum on Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta. It shows historical and contemporary art and traveling exhibitions. It also runs monthly free and low-cost programs, classes, camps, tours, and events for kids, teens, adults, and seniors.
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 Chapter of the Sierra Club, a large group of members who work to protect nature and the planet. It posts a calendar of hikes, committee meetings, local group meetings, and talks on topics like data centers, transit, and politics.
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.
Joni and Friends Georgia is the Georgia office of a Christian disability ministry. It helps people with disabilities and their families find disability-friendly churches. It also helps churches learn to welcome everyone, takes donated manual wheelchairs, and shares retreats and getaways.
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.
Team River Runner is a national nonprofit that gets veterans and their families out on the water in kayaks and other paddle boats. The Atlanta chapter is one of its Georgia chapters. You can contact the chapter coordinator if you want to paddle or volunteer. Programs are free for veterans and service members.
This is the Southeastern Chapter of Paralyzed Veterans of America. It serves veterans who have a spinal cord injury or disease, including MS and ALS. Members can get help with VA benefits and join chapter events, and others can join as associate members or volunteer.
The Blinded Veterans Association is a national group for veterans who are blind or have low vision. It helps veterans file VA benefit claims at no cost, offers free training and support through volunteer Ambassadors, and gives scholarships to family members of its members.
The American Legion is a national veterans group with local posts and state departments. Its trained service officers help veterans and their families apply for VA benefits at no cost. It also runs youth programs and scholarships, and gives grants to some families and members in need.
