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.
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 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.
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 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.
Team Red, White & Blue (Team RWB) is a national health and wellness community for veterans. Members join workouts, challenges, outdoor trips, and local events, in person or through a free app. It is open to veterans, service members, military families, and supporters.
Heroes on the Water is a nonprofit that offers free kayak fishing outings. The Chattahoochee Valley chapter is run by volunteers and serves veterans, active-duty military, law enforcement, first responders and their families around Columbus, Georgia. Kayaks, fishing gear and safety gear are provided, and you do not need any experience.
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.
The Sierra Club Georgia Chapter is the state branch of the Sierra Club. It works to protect Georgia's air, water, land and climate. It leads outdoor trips such as hikes, bike rides and birding outings. It also runs campaigns on clean energy, transit and state laws, and it welcomes volunteers.
LifeWaters is a nonprofit that teaches scuba diving to veterans, first responders, and other people with disabilities. Dive skills are adapted for each diver. Training can be free when grants or donations allow, and the group also trains volunteer dive buddies and dive instructors. Its main training site is in Arnold, Missouri, and it has partner centers in several other states.
S. military veterans get stronger through months of training and then a mountain climb. Veterans train with a team, get their gear provided, and are matched with a mountain that fits their recovery. The group is based in Los Angeles and is building a retreat center on Mt. Baldy, California.
Travis Mills Foundation is a Maine nonprofit for post-9/11 veterans with life-changing injuries and their families. It runs a free, barrier-free retreat in Rome, Maine with adapted activities, rest, and a week for caregivers. It also offers Warrior PATHH for veterans and first responders, and trips such as a quarterly visit to the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta.
Catch A Lift Fund helps veterans hurt in combat after 9/11. Each veteran gets a coach, fitness and nutrition help, mental wellness tools, and a community of other veterans. The group is based in Maryland and serves veterans across the country.
Helping a Hero is a nonprofit started in 2006. It builds specially adapted homes for veterans who were severely hurt in the war on terror after 9/11. It also offers marriage and caregiver retreats and recreation support for wounded veterans and their families.
United Heroes League is a nonprofit in Hastings, Minnesota. It helps children of military families play sports. It gives out free sports gear, game tickets, sports camps, special experiences, and grants for sports sign-up fees to families who qualify through military service.
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.
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.
S. veterans with PTSD and other service-related stress. Veterans get free one-on-one guitar lessons from volunteers, and a free guitar and gear after finishing the lessons. Veterans who live far from a chapter can learn online through the Cyber Chapter.
Higher Ground USA is a nonprofit based in Ketchum, Idaho that uses outdoor recreation and recreational therapy to help veterans, first responders, and people with disabilities. It runs adaptive sports, week-long therapeutic recreation programs, local Community Resiliency Unit events, and fundraising events. Its ambassador directory lists a Georgia CRU contact in Decatur, but no Atlanta service address was verified.
