Westside Works is a job training and career center on Atlanta's Westside. It is an initiative of CareerRise. It offers training in construction, culinary and hospitality, healthcare, and technology, plus career advising, job clubs, and job fairs.
City of Refuge is a faith-based campus on Atlanta's Westside that helps people and families move out of crisis. It offers housing for women, children, and men, free job training, youth programs, a school, a campus kitchen, and an on-site health clinic. For housing, call and leave a message, because walk-ins are not taken.
This is the state office that guides Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education (CTAE) in Georgia public middle and high schools. It supports more than 130 career pathways in 17 career clusters, student clubs like FFA, FBLA and SkillsUSA, and ways for students to earn work credentials. Students and families sign up through their own school or district, not through this state office.
Justice Center of Atlanta is a nonprofit mediation center that has worked in Atlanta since 1977. A trained neutral mediator helps people who disagree talk and reach their own agreement. The center also teaches mediation courses for people who want to become mediators or build mediation skills.
Per Scholas Atlanta gives no-cost technology job training in Peachtree Center downtown, close to MARTA. Classes run 5 to 16 weeks and prepare people for entry-level tech jobs, with industry certifications, career coaching and connections to employers. Training is free for people who qualify by income and other requirements.
Southface Institute is an Atlanta nonprofit, started in 1978, that works on energy-saving and healthy buildings. It trains trade workers and builders, offers green building certification and consulting, and runs grants and discounts that help other nonprofits cut energy bills. Many of its services and courses cost money.
Southface is an Atlanta nonprofit that works to make buildings use less energy and be healthier. It teaches classes for building and trade workers, and it offers grants and discounts to help nonprofits cut their energy bills. It also shares free energy code guides and runs an energy code helpline.
SAVE Institute is a nonprofit that works with Black boys and young men. Its high school lets students earn a diploma by learning through farming, trade work, service projects and starting a business. Some students live on its 78-acre campus in Lithia Springs, and there is a summer skills camp for ages 12-17.
The Atlanta ToolBank lends tools and equipment to nonprofits, schools, and other service groups for a small weekly fee. It also runs tool classes and youth tool programs, and it rents out event space at its building in southeast Atlanta.
The Technical College System of Georgia runs the state's 22 technical colleges. It offers job training programs, tuition help such as the HOPE Career Grant, dual enrollment for high school students, and adult education with GED testing. It also supports veterans and students who face barriers to school.
Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture runs urban farms on Atlanta's Westside that grow fresh, naturally grown food. They sell produce through a weekly CSA produce-box program and a monthly farmers market, and they teach people how to grow their own food through classes, training, and farm tours.
Covenant House Georgia helps young people ages 18 to 24 who are homeless or escaping trafficking. It runs a youth shelter, housing programs, street outreach, a drop-in center, health and counseling care, and help with school and jobs. Every young person gets a case manager.
Covenant House Georgia helps young people ages 18 to 24 who are homeless or escaping trafficking. It has a crisis shelter, longer-term apartment housing, health care and counseling, school and job help, and street outreach. A young person who needs shelter can call the youth line.
This is Georgia's state agency that helps people with disabilities get ready for work, find a job, and keep it. It also helps people who are blind, low vision, Deaf, or hard of hearing, supports independent living, and handles Social Security disability decisions for Georgia.
This is the Goodwill of North Georgia career center at 2160 Metropolitan Parkway SW. It sits at the same address as a Goodwill store and donation center. You can look for jobs, use computers, get help with a resume and cover letter, and work with a career coach. Goodwill says its career centers are free and open to the public.
Atlanta Youth Project, also called Youth Incorporated, does year-round youth work in low-income Atlanta neighborhoods. Its God's Farm hosts Christian day camps and group overnight camps, and campers pay no fee. Adults and groups can volunteer at the farm, and college-age Christians can apply to be summer interns.
Our House helps families in Atlanta who are homeless. It runs free, accredited early childhood education for children from 6 weeks to 5 years old, with free meals and health services on site. The Decatur campus is Our House's original building, at 711 South Columbia Drive. It has six classrooms, a parent resource room, and offices.
Trade-Up is a pre-apprenticeship program in Atlanta run by Georgia STAND-UP. It teaches construction basics, work and life skills, and GED study. The goal is to help people move into skilled union construction jobs.
Atlanta Area School for the Deaf is a free state day school in Clarkston for deaf and hard of hearing students ages 3 to 22. Staff and teachers use American Sign Language and English all day. A student's local school system refers them, and the school also offers therapy and other student services, sports, clubs, and career classes.
Georgia Piedmont Technical College is a public technical college with campuses in DeKalb, Newton and Rockdale counties. Its Adult Education program offers free classes to get ready for the GED or HiSET tests, and the college also offers degree, diploma and certificate programs. It has help with financial aid, free tutoring for students, and services for veterans.