New to Atlanta with kids

Georgia WIC is a state program that helps families with food benefits, nutrition help, and breastfeeding support. Families get an eWIC card for approved foods and can meet one-on-one with nutritionists and dietitians. WIC staff also point families to doctors, dentists, and childcare.

Curator’s note: Food benefits for pregnant women, new mothers and children under 5 with low incomes. Call to set up a visit at a clinic near you.

Quality Care for Children is a nonprofit that has worked with Georgia families and child care providers since 1979. It helps parents find child care, learn about help paying for it, and apply for state help like CAPS. It also coaches and trains child care providers and runs a food program for child care programs.

Curator’s note: Helps you find child care and apply for help paying for it.

Bright from the Start is Georgia's state agency for early childhood care and education. It runs Georgia's free Pre-K program, licenses and inspects child care centers and home daycares, and helps low-income families pay for child care through the CAPS subsidy program. Families can use it to find quality-rated child care and check whether a provider is safe and licensed.

Curator’s note: The state agency that runs free Pre-K, licenses child care, and runs the CAPS program that helps low-income families pay for care.

Educare Atlanta is an early learning school inside Dunbar Elementary School in the Mechanicsville neighborhood. It is one of the centers run by Sheltering Arms, a nonprofit. It offers early education for young children and support for their families.

Curator’s note: An early learning center in Mechanicsville with Head Start, Early Head Start and Georgia Pre-K.

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta is a children's hospital system with more than 60 pediatric specialties. It offers urgent care and emergency care for kids, plus clinics for asthma, diabetes, heart, cancer and blood disorders, and brain and nerve conditions. Parents can also use its online guides and tips.

Curator’s note: The children's hospital system: emergency care, urgent care and children's doctors across metro Atlanta.

Good Samaritan Health Center is a Christian nonprofit health center in Atlanta. It serves people who are uninsured or have low incomes. It offers checkups, dental care, counseling, medicine help, and a Friday clinic for people without homes. Patients pay based on what they can afford.

Curator’s note: A Westside clinic with checkups and dental care for families without insurance. Fees are based on income, and no one is turned away for not being able to pay.

The Latin American Association helps Latino families and immigrants. At its Atlanta office on Buford Highway, staff help with food and basic needs, rent and utility bills, immigration legal services, classes, jobs, and youth programs. Services are by appointment, so call first.

Curator’s note: For Latino and immigrant families: food by appointment, SNAP and Medicaid sign-up, immigration legal services, job training and English classes.

Agape is a nonprofit center on the west side of Atlanta that helps children, teens, families, and seniors. Kids from K-12 get tutoring, mentoring, dinner, and a ride home after school, plus summer camps. Older teens get college and career help, and seniors can join a daytime program.

Curator’s note: After-school tutoring, mentoring and summer camps for children in northwest Atlanta.