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A Friends House
A Friends House is an emergency shelter for abused, neglected and abandoned children who are in the custody of the Department of Family & Children's Services.
website: http://www.afriendshouse.org
AADD
AADD enriches the quality of life for individuals and families living with developmental disabilities through community based services and supports, community and parent education, and public policy initiatives. Our work is accomplished through volunteers, paid staff, and numerous collaborative efforts.
website: http://www.aadd.org
Africas Childrens Fund
Africas Childrens Fund (ACF) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c) 3 corporation was founded in 1993 as a small support group, but has grown into an international relief and development organization that implements and supports youth, family and community development through educational, transitional housing, medical outreach, and nutritional programs in United States, and several countries in Africa and the Caribbean. Our programs operate in schools, churches, recreational and community centers throughout Metro Atlanta and abroad. Charitable foundations, corporations, the religious communities, private organizations, government agencies and thousands of individuals support our programs.
website: http://www.africaschildrensfund.org
Aid to Children of Imprisoned Mothers Inc
AIM provides an intergenerational approach to working with families affected by incarceration for the ultimate success of the children. We provide a Children's Program which includes an After School Program, Saturday enrichment sessions and bi-monthly family visitation for the children, legal, parenting and limited reentry seminars for inmates and support groups for relative caregivers.
website: http://www.takingaim.net
American Cancer Society
Provides programs and services in metro Atlanta as part of the nationwide community- based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer.
website: http://www.cancer.org
American Lung Association of Georgia
Provides educational programs and services in the areas of health education, smoking, asthma and environmental occupational hazards in order to prevent lung disease and promote lung health.
website: http://www.lungusa.org
American Red Cross Coweta Chapter
Supplies half the nation's blood supply and one quarter of nation's tissue for transplantation.Provides worldwide communications and support network that serves as a lifeline between military service members and their families.Provides shelter, food, clothing, life-sustaining medications and other essential items for persons suffering from a disaster. Provides education and training to help people prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies: including CPR, AED, first aid, HIV/AIDS prevention
website: http://www.cowetaredcross.com
American Red Cross Metro Atlanta Chapter
The American Red Cross, Metropolitan Atlanta Chapter, is a humanitarian organization led by volunteers that helps people prevent, prepare for, and respond to life-threatening emergencies. Established in 1914, the Chapter serves 15 metro Atlanta counties with emergency disaster relief and education, Armed Forces emergency services, and programs promoting health and safety.
website: http://www.redcrossatlanta.org
Another Way Out Inc
Another Way Out, Inc. is an educational program, of which the centerpiece is a mentoring intervention and after-school program for under-served youth ages 8-18. Youth participants receive healthy coping skills in the areas of: violence prevention, conflict resolution, peer pressure, teen parenthood, drugs, preparation for grade-level advancement and high school graduation.
website: http://www.awoinc.com
Association of Village PRIDE
AVP provides programs to support children and their families in Fayette County from multicultural backgrounds in the areas of academic support, leadership development and community service opportunities. AVP is able to this because of a strong partnership with Fayette County Schools and other community agencies. In Fayette County there is a disproportionate number of students of color involved in discipline referrals and school retention, which puts them at risk for being successful in society.
website: http://www.avpride.org
Association on Battered Women of Clayton County, Inc.
Our agency provides emergency shelter to women and children of domestic violence. The objectives of the organization are to provide direct and indirect services, information and referrals, community education, and develop partnerships to help eliminate family violence.
website: http://www.securushouse.org
Atlanta Childrens Shelter
The Atlanta Children's Shelter provides loving quality child development and support services for homeless families striving to become self-sufficient.
website: http://www.atlantachildrensshelter.org
Atlanta Enterprise Center
Atlanta Enterprise Center is an employment program that addresses the unique employment issues of the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless. Our mission is to provide opportunities for self-sufficiency. This is accomplished through a comprehensive recovery program focusing on addressing barriers to employment, life skills training and intensive case management throughout the continuum of care process. Prevention and recovery from homelessness are our priorities, putting people to work in permanent jobs is what we do.
website: http://www.atlantaenterprisecenter.org
Atlanta Legal Aid Society
Provides information and representation on civil (non-criminal) legal matters to low-income residents of Atlanta. Provides legal protection against illegal eviction and homelessness, against domestic violence and child abuse, and against loss of government benefits such as SSI or Medicaid.
website: http://www.atlantalegalaid.org
Atlanta Micro Fund Loan Program
The Atlanta Micro Fund is a nonprofit agency providing small business loans (up to $10,000) and individualized business management coaching to low and moderate-income entrepreneurs starting or expanding small businesses in metropolitan Atlanta. The agency works with these entrepreneurs and business owners to assist them with acquiring capital and management skills to develop and stabilize their businesses.
website: http://www.ahand.org/index/programs/atlanta_micro_fund
Atlanta Victim Assistance Inc
The Victim Assistance Program advocates for the fundamental rights of victims and witnesses of crime with compassion, dignity, and respect. AVA provides comprehensive services which remove barriers, strengthen victims and their families and foster a healthy transition from victim to survivor.
website: http://www.atlantava.org
Auditory Verbal Center Inc
AVC eliminates the educational and employment barriers that result from children having mild to profound hearing loss, facilitating independent living and mainstreaming. Teaching hearing impaired children to listen & speak without the use of sign language or lip reading. Enabling them to become independent communicators in our hearing society. Full audiology department, servicing birth to seniors with diagnostic testing, evaluations, hearing aid sales and repair and assistive listening devices available.
website: http://www.avchears.org
Beacon of Hope Inc
Beacon of Hope, Inc. (BOH) partners with founder, TBC Tabernacle Baptist Church, Inc. (TBC), and other organizations, to provide extremely needed educational, family (human) support services, and community development (including housing) service programs in the Old Fourth Ward and surrounding community. Beacon of Hope is a separate, non-profit (501c3 registered) corporation. TBC and BOH have acquired 13 parcels of land for the purpose of community development, implementing a strategic plan to possess the land and eliminate absent and irresponsible landlords, to reface a community plagued with destructive elements.
website: http://www.beaconofhopeatlanta.org
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta
Big Brothers Big Sisters is the oldest, largest and most effective youth mentoring organization in the United States. We have been the leader in one-to-one youth service for more than a century, developing positive relationships that have a direct and lasting impact on the lives of young people. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta has been serving the Atlanta area for over 46 years, transforming our community by providing and supporting mentoring relationships for children ages 6-17.
website: http://www.bbbsatl.org
Blind and Low Vision Services of North Georgia
Provides comprehensive examination and assessment, prescription and training in use of low vision services to both children and adults. Special focus on community based programs for older blind persons. Also, pre-vocational program and job retention services to the visually impaired seeking services.
website: http://www.BLVSgeorgia.org
Bobby Dodd Institute
BDI provides training, employment, and life enhancing services to people with disabilities and economic disadvantages in metro Atlanta. Programs include evaluation, training, life skills and supports, enrichment, job placement, transitional employment, and employment in one of BDI's own social enterprises.
website: http://www.bobbydodd.org
Boy Scouts Atlanta Council
The Council provides young people with opportunities to mentor their peers, build character, and enrich their faith. These activities build stronger family bonds and help youth reach their full potential by instilling values that last a lifetime and providing opportunities for leadership and learning. A strength is the unique relationship between religious and community organizations, schools, parents, and leaders. The result is children that are stronger and better prepared for the future to reach success in learning and in life.
website: http://www.atlantabsa.org
Boy Scouts Flint River Council
Provides Scouts with safe, productive, structured activities outside of school hours through weekly, family-based learning experiences and community service projects. This chapter serves youth and families in Fayette, Coweta, Henry, Butts, Pike, Lamar, Upson and Spalding.
website: http://www.flintrivercouncil.org
Boy Scouts Northeast Georgia Council
Provides youth with safe, productive, structured activities outside of school hours through weekly, family-based learning experiences and community service projects in Gwinnett County and 25 other northeast Georgia counties. Positive adult role models (usually parents) lead meetings that teach citizenship, character development and personal fitness. Three camping facilities (615 acres) are also provided.
website: http://www.nega-bsa.org
Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta
Since 1938, BGCMA has provided local community Clubs located purposefully in neighborhoods where disadvantaged children live. BGCMA has grown to become Atlanta's largest organization intentionally providing services focused primarily on youth at risk of failing; academically, economically and socially. BGCMA provides life-changing programs focused primarily in education, health, and leadership development. It serves its membership of 16,402 youth in 11 counties through 21 chartered Clubs, 3 year-round extension sites, the Youth Art Connection gallery, Camp Kiwanis, and several summer-only sites.
website: http://www.bgcma.org
Butts County Counseling Center
Provides quality behavioral health services and successful community integration for people with disabilities.
Butts County Mental Retardation Center
Our agency is a Community Service Board, created by house bill 100, funded as an independent agency, providing services to those who experience a disability in the area of mental health, developmental disabilities and/or addictive diseases. Butts County Mental Retardation Center, operating under the policy and procedure guidelines of McIntosh Trail Community Service Board, is responsible for providing services to people with developmental disabilities.
Butts County Schools
At Future Achievers we are dedicated to providing students with positive role models, career opportunities and interactive learning opportunities. Field trips to local businesses in the community enhance their understanding of what it takes to run a business. Field trips to CNN, Turner Field, Fern Bank, High Museum enhance their awareness of career opportunities. We bring in positive role models and programs for them to see and hear how they can have a successful career and give back to their community.
Calvary Refuge Center Inc
Calvary Refuge Center, Inc. is the only Emergency Shelter for the homeless in Clayton County serving men, women and children 365 days per year. We also provide a Transitional Program which consist of 14 units, each unit represents one family. Each client in the Transitional Housing program is allowed a 24 month stay and serves families 365 days per year.
website: http://www.calvaryrefuge.org
Camp Fire USA Georgia Council
Camp Fire USA Georgia Council builds caring confident youth and future leaders through a variety of programs that include Teens in Action youth leadership, Classic Club after school programs, Self Reliance peer relationship programs, Community Family Club family strengthening and Day and Resident Camps. These programs serve the whole family, boys and girls and their parents or guardians.
website: http://www.campfireusaga.org
CaringWorks Inc
CaringWorks, Inc provides supportive services for low income tenants of affordable housing while promoting personal and economic self-sufficiency. On-site services include case management, addiction counseling, crisis intervention, computer and life skills training as well as school aged care. CaringWorks also promotes civic and community involvement among residents by facilitating the development of leadership skills and helping residents to become stakeholders in their neighborhood, thus promoting successful communities for everyone.
website: http://www.prihousing.org
Carrie Steele Pitts Home, Inc.
Carrie Steele-Pitts Home provides neglected and abused children with a safe, nurturing place to live. In addition, trained personnel teach daily living skills, counsel, and encourage positive educational goals. Special emphasis is made toward care during afterschool hours.
website: http://www.CSPH.org
CASA for Children, Inc.
We recruit, train and support community volunteers to advocate for the best interests of children who have come into the court system as a result of abuse or neglect in Cherokee County.
website: http://www.casaforchildren.org
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Atlanta Inc
Offers Outpatient Counseling, Immigration services, Refugee services, Information & Referral, Housing Counseling, Job Placement, Prison Ministry, Adoption, and Crisis Pregnancy Counseling.
website: http://www.catholiccharitiesatlanta.org
Center for Black Womens Wellness, Inc.
The Center for Black Women's Wellness was established in 1988 as a program of the National Black Women's Health Project and became an independent organization in 1996. The Center is based in the Mechanicsville neighborhood of NPU-V and functions as a community-based, family service center, serving the families in the surrounding areas.
website: http://www.cbww.org
Center for Pan Asian Community Services, Inc.
Founded under the concept of “people need people”, the Center for Pan Asian Community Services, Inc. (CPACS) mission is to create and deliver culturally competent and comprehensive social and health care services to counteract problems faced by immigrant, refugees, and racial-ethnic minorities.
Center for the Visually Impaired
Offers comprehensive rehabilitation services to promote independence with dignity and the preservation of self-worth to individuals of any age who are blind or visually impaired.
website: http://www.cviatlanta.org
Central Presbyterian Outreach Center
Helps meet the basic needs of those in emergency situations by providing food, ID assistance, MARTA tokens, and referrals for job assistant programs and drug and alcohol rehab programs.
website: http://www.centraloutreachandadvocacy.org
Cherokee Child Advocacy Council
The Anna Crawford Children’s Center provides a coordinated, humane approach to investigating child abuse and neglect, and therapy to victims and non-offending family members. Our prevention efforts consist of home-based parent education, group based parent education and special public awareness projects.
The Cherokee Children’s Stabilization & Assessment Center will provide 24 hour emergency shelter services to 20 children from birth to 18 years, collaborating with local resources to minimize disruption while providing access to mental health and medical services.
website: http://www.cherokeechildadvocates.org/
Cherokee Day Training Center
Agency provides array of day support training services to 96 adults with developmental disabilities. We provide job placement / supported employment, pre-vocational work skills development, ADL training activities; residential supports, transportation and community-based life skills safety and training activities .
Cherokee Family Violence Center
CFVC provides crisis intervention services such as a 12 bed emergency shelter, 24-hour hotlines in both Spanish and English, and emergency legal assistance; longer term self-sufficiency support services such asa 72 unit transitional housing complex, job development, continuing education life skills classes and financial assistance; developing community partnerships and institutional awareness of domestic violence issues; and promoting a community standard of zero tolerance for violence in the home.
website: http://www.cherokeefamilyviolence.org
Cherokee Learning Center
To actively promote Appalachian Tech, support its students, faculty and staff, and provide supplemental funding for the institute by working in partnership with individuals, business and industry, and the community to provide a well-trained, highly skilled work force which can support new and existing industry, satisfy constantly changing economic and technological needs, enrich the quality of life, add value to the entire community, and enhance the economic development of north Georgia.
Childrens Voice CASA Inc
Program recruits, trains and supervises adult volunteers who advocate for the best interest of abused and/or neglected children in DFCS custody involved in Juvenile Court deprivation proceedings in Douglas County.
CHRIS Kids
Breaks the cycle of abuse by healing children, strengthening families, and building community by providing a flexible array of community-based residential and non-residential treatment services.
website: http://www.chriskids.org
Clayton County Aging Program
Offers a variety of services to Clayton County seniors, 60 years of age and older, including the Home Delivered Meals Program, which provides a hot, nutritious meal, five days per week to homebound seniors.
Clayton County Extension Service
University of Georgia, Clayton Cooperative Extension provides unbiased, researched based community education that helps families to become healthier, more productive, financially independent and environmentally responsible.
Clayton County Family Care, Inc.
Offers Homeless Prevention & emergency aid program that provides financial assistance with housing, utilities, food, prescription medicine and referrals for Clayton County residents on low income. Clayton Co. residency & income total household income are primary eligibility criteria.
website: http://www.claytonfamilycare.org
CLICK
Mobilizes all available resources in a literacy campaign that functions within state certification guidelines and will result in a literate community within ten years.
Co-Sponsor of the local effort for the Ferst Foundation for Childhood Literacy which will provie free books mailed once month to registered children ages 0-5 to promote school readiness. (up to 60 books per child)
Cobb County Center for Children and Young Adults
The Center for Children & Young Adults is a nonprofit organization that has been serving children for 22 years. It operates two temporary emergency shelters for abused and neglected children and youth -- Open Gate serves children birth to 11 and Another Chance serves youth 12-17. The agency also operates a transitional living program, Turning Point, for homeless young adults, 17-21. Services include: food, clothing, shelter, medical attention, recreational activities, academic assessment/assistance and therapeutic services provided by licensed clinicians.
website: http://www.umbrellaweb.org
Cobb Housing, Inc.
Develops, sponsors and manages a comprehensive range of housing and economic development programs and services for economically disadvantaged persons and thereby ensure that safe, sanitary, affordable housing is available to the citizens of Cobb County.
Cobb Literacy Council
The Cobb Literacy Council accomplishes our mission by: expanding literacy classes and resources in Cobb County; offering services to those most in need; reaching out to the immigrants moving into our community; providing education for families and the workforce; supporting existing service providers through training and the convening of resources, knowledge, and experience; and educating Cobb's residents about the need for literacy services.
website: http://www.cobbworks.org
Communities in Schools of Atlanta
CIS connects community resources with schools to help them successfully learn, stay in school and prepare for life. CIS seeks to ensure that ALL children succeed in school and excel through high school graduation by promoting improved school attendance and behavior, increasing parental involvement, providing family support, supporting academic enrichment and recruiting community partnerships.
website: http://www.cisatlanta.org
Communities in Schools of Coweta
Communities In Schools of Coweta serves students and families in the Coweta School System by offering mentoring program, Sight for Sudents, Performance Learning Center, Reading Is Fundmental and PASSPort. CIS connects needed community resources with schools to help young people successfully learn, stay in school and prepare for life.
website: http://www.cowetaschools.org
Communities In Schools of Douglas County
CISDC is a drop out prevention agency that works in collaboration with the Douglas County School District and CORE (A Community Organizing Resources for Excellence). CISDC focuses on kindergarten through twelfth grade students deemed at-risk to be served by differing drop out prevention programs such as the After School Programs at 23 schools and One-2-One Mentoring Program in 31 sites, character education at all sites, and the Performance Learning Center.
website: http://www.douglas.k12.ga.us
Communities In Schools of Marietta Cobb County Inc
Communities In Schools of Marietta/Cobb County (CISMCC) is the county's leading community-based organization helping kids stay in school. CISMCC is a private nonprofit community organization serving both the Cobb County and Marietta School Systems.
CISMCC works to connect the schools with the community resources that students need by providing mentoring programs, social service referrals, career exploration, leadership development, academic assistance and parent education. The organization brings resources, services, parents and volunteers into the schools to meet the children's needs.
website: http://www.cismcc.org
Community Health Center Inc
Community Health Center, Inc. provides excellent low-cost medical and dental treatment to patients in need. Community Health Center, Inc. understands that many people in our community require dental and medical services, but cannot afford to pay for them. Our office is committed to working with people through Individualized Financial Aid Plans which shows our commitment to providing medical and dental services to deserving patients.
CORRAL
Provides physical and mental equine-assisted learning experiences through horseback riding to special education classes and to private individuals who qualify, three times a week throughout the school year.
website: http://www.corraltrc.org
Council on Aging for McIntosh Trail, Inc.
Offers programs designed to help maintain and strengthen the ability of elderly individuals to care for themselves, remain independent, provide a broad range of recreational, social health, nutritional and educational training.
website: http://www.mctrcouncilonaging.org
Council on Alcohol and Drugs
Prevents alcohol, tobacco and other drug-related problems through information dissemination, education, community-based processes, and environmental and social policy strategies.
website: http://www.livedrugfree.org
Covenant Community Inc
Covenant Community, Inc. is a residential, life-stabilization program for homeless adult men who are recovering substance abusers.
website: http://www.covenantatlanta.org
Coweta Council on Aging
Provides hot, nutritious meals to homebound senior citizens Monday through Friday of each week and allows them to be checked on. We
also provide a nutritious meal at the Senior Center, along with other
activities and programs and services for seniors.
Coweta County Special Olympics
Provides a year-round sports training and competition program for mentally disabled children and adults through training programs, weekend events, family camps, and other delivery systems that promote personal independence, physical development and health, social skills, emotional development, behavioral and financial management, and adaptive skills.
Create Your Dreams
Create Your Dreams addresses the lack of resources for motivated students in underserved and low-income areas of Atlanta. Our long-term enrichment program is designed to nurture creativity and self-confidence, encourage leadership, guide in goal-setting, and form community among our students. Our program’s foundation is the personal relationships we build as we follow students from elementary to high school. Our goal is for all of our students to graduate from high school, pursue a higher education and become leaders.
website: http://www.createyourdreams.org
Crossroads Community Ministries Inc
Crossroads is a “front door” service provider for persons experiencing homelessness. We work with over 3,000 people every year through five programs, the Crossroads Kitchen (serving 300 meals/day), Angels Over Atlanta (long-term case management for persons with disabilities), the Women’s Initiative, Atlanta Cooks (training for employment in the food service industry), and the Renewal Project. This work is carried out by over 300 volunteers and four full time and seven part time staff with a cash operating budget of under $500,000.
website: http://www.crossroadsatlanta.org
Decatur Cooperative Ministry, Inc.
Decatur Cooperative Ministry provides a continuum of services for homeless and at-risk families to enable them to overcome their current crisis situation and become self-sufficient. Programs include an emergency shelter for women with children (Hagar's House), family transitional housing (Family House), and a homelessness prevention/emergency financial assistance program (Project Take Charge).
website: http://www.decaturcooperativeministry.org
Decatur Recreation Department
Provide leisure and support services that contribute to the quality of life of the citizens of Decatur, including economic development, preserving green spaces and celebrating diversity. Promoting Community Wellness in Partnership with You is our vision statement. Our agency has provided after school services in partnership with City Schools of Decatur since 1984. Our after school programs strive to meet the National AfterSchool Alliance (NAA)Standards of Quality. Our agency is a member of NAA, Georgia School Age Association (GSACA), National Parks and Recreation Association and American Camps Association.
website: http://www.decaturga.com
Dekalb County CASA
Dekalb CASA recruits, trains and supervises volunteers that advocate for children to reduce the recurrence of child abuse and neglect for children in the custody of the Department of Family and Children Services (DFCS). CASA volunteers provide intensive, individualized case management and advocacy for children who may otherwise be lost in an over-burdened foster care system. CASAs community partners include the Dekalb County School System, childcare providers, emergency care and family shelters, Dekalb Juvenile Court Systems and Child Protection Agencies. In 2006, 81 volunteers served 102 children. Regrettably, there are more than1500 children waiting to be served.
website: http://www.dekalbcasa.org
Diabetes Association of Atlanta, Inc.
The agency assists persons living with diabetes to improve the quality of their lives through comprehensive diabetes self-management education, enabling them to properly manage their disease and reduce long-term complications. The agency provides to those persons who income qualify, free diabetes medicines and supplies for a period of seven months. DAA also has an early detection initiative to detect those who have diabetes but are undiagnosed, as well as a diabetes prevention initiative specifically designed for middle school youths.
website: http://www.diabetesatlanta.org
Douglas County Retardation Association Inc
DCRA provides services to individuals with developmental disabilities in the following areas: residential services, day support services, respite services and connection friend (volunteer) services. Our agency receives United Way funding for the respite and connections programs.
website: http://www.douglascountyretardation.org
Douglas Senior Services
Provides Meals on Wheels and other in-home and senior center based support services designed to promote the independence of Douglas County residents age 60 and over.
East Point Community Action Team
The East Point Community Action Team (EP-CAT) builds community by empowering individuals to take responsibility and action. Our method is to build partnerships that develop resources in the community. We then connect residents to resources and opportunities by organizing, leading and supporting the community to achieve its goals. These goals impact the involvement, economic development, education, housing and well being of children and families in our community
website: http://www.ep-cat.org
Easter Seals North Georgia
Ensures that children of all abilities have an opportunity to receive quality early education and care by providing information and referral services, early education and care, head start, early intervention including therapy, and child care teacher training.
website: http://www.northgeorgia.easterseals.com
Elaine Clark Center for Exceptional Children
The Elaine Clark Center is a NAEYC accredited inclusive Early Intervention program with a childcare component, open five days a week from 7:30 am to 6:00 pm, serving children from six weeks to twelve years old. The program is staffed by up to 23 caring professionals all committed to providing assistance to the children and families we serve. The center currently provides the following services: Early Intervention, Developmental Assessments, Childcare, Case Management, Resource and Referral, Nursing, Educational Training and Financial Assistance.
website: http://www.elaineclarkcenter.org
ExceptionalOps
Our goal is to develop an accepting and supportive community environment with a full spectrum of high quality local support options so that people in Fayette County with developmental disabilities, and their families, have choices as they lead productive lives in our community.
website: http://www.exceptionalops.com
Families First
Provides critical preventive services designed to strengthen and preserve families through counseling, family support, education, community building, and advocacy.
website: http://www.familiesfirst.org
Fayette County Board of Education
Provides optimal educational opportunities to students, which enables them to strive toward realizing their potential and becoming contributing citizens.
website: http://www.fcboe.org
Fayette Samaritans Inc
Responds to emergency needs, whether it be temporary or sustained, and will help a family maintain a normalcy within their lives while going through a crisis situation.
website: http://www.fayettesamaritans.org
Fayette Senior Services
Provides Fayette County senior citizens with life services including enrichment, referral, outreach, transportation, home-delivered meals, etc. Operates a Senior Center where seniors meet for activities designed to insure dignity, self-respect and independent living.
website: http://www.fayss.org
Fayette Youth Protection Home
Fayette Youth Protection Home is a non-profit organization that offers a protective environment and the opportunity for spiritual growth for youth who have been the victims of abuse, neglect or family instability. FYPH contracts with Georgia Baptist Children’s Homes & Family Ministries to oversee the day-to-day operations of our residential group home and employ staff for the program. Children are referred to our program by the Department of Family & Children's Services.
website: http://www.fyph.org
Flint Circuit Council on Family Violence
Provides safety, support and advocacy for victims of domestic violence by maintaining a 24-Hour crisis phone line, individual and group support and counseling, legal assistance in obtaining Temporary Protective Orders, 18 bed emergency shelter, direct assistance and therapy for adults and children.
website: http://www.henryhavenhouse.org
Frazer Center
The Frazer Center Children's Program provides high quality, inclusive child development services to families in the Atlanta community. The purpose of The Frazer Center is to ensure that children with disabilities as well as typically developing children are developmentally ready for school by age 5 through individualized, inclusion based services.
website: http://www.thefrazercenter.org
Fulton County Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc
Fulton County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), Inc. is a community based non-profit committed to making the Juvenile Justice System and the community more responsive to the needs of abused and neglected children. Our program provides advocacy by trained volunteers to abused and neglected children age 0-18 adjudicated deprived by the Fulton County Juvenile Court. This includes children who are victims of physical, sexual and/or emotional abuse, as well as children who have been abandoned or are the victims of neglect.
website: http://www.fultoncountycasa.org
Gate City Day Nursery Association
Gate City Day Nursery Association provides a comprehensive approach to early childhood education, with supportive and social services to children and families. Our program addresses the cognitive, language, social-emotional, and motor development of children. We stress the individual interests of the child, as well as provide a variety of experiences and activities that offer children the opportunity for gaining the confidence and competency skills necessary for success in the public school setting.
website: http://www.gatecitykids.org
Genesis A New Life
Genesis A New Life is an emergency transitional community for homeless families with newborn and very young children that provides a full array of programming and services designed to build self sufficiency and prepare families for a healthy, fulfilling and independent life. Genesis is successful through a series of core programs that include an on site Child Development Center, an extensive AfterCare Program, weekly counseling, frequent case management, specialized parenting classes and the 5 Star Job Readiness Program.
website: http://www.genesisshelter.com
Georgia Business Forum, Inc.
21st Century Leaders, headquartered in Decatur, GA, presently serves 17 metro Atlanta high schools, and operates a year round program of leadership and business development for teenagers, sophomore – seniors. We stress the value of the strength of diversity in business and teach the techniques of leadership for both business and in the community. A staff of four is supplemented by summer staff, and approximately 180 corporate and business volunteers who develop and deliver curriculum.
website: http://www.21stcenturyleaders.org
Georgia Center for Children
Georgia Center for Children is the nationally-certified child advocacy center serving Fulton and DeKalb Counties. The Center provides a coordinated response to the problem of child sexual abuse, working closely with local hospitals, law enforcement agencies, district attorney's office, and DFCS.
website: http://www.georgiacenterforchildren.org
Georgia Council on Substance Abuse
The Georgia Council on Substance Abuse is a 501(c)(3) statewide organization focused on substance abuse prevention and treatment. The Council is guided by a Board of Directors comprised of business leaders, professionals and concerned citizens. The Council has grown from grassroots advocacy to include educational conferences, training forums, community linkages and knowledge sharing to reduce the impact of substance abuse on individuals and our community.
website: http://www.gasubstanceabuse.org
Georgia Law Center for the Homeless
The Law Center provides free, quality civil legal services to homeless families and individuals. These services can remove obstacles to basic needs such as stable housing, employment, and health care. The Law Center's mix of legal services, shelter outreach, and case management is an effective way to help clients become self-sufficient.
website: http://www.galawcenter.org
Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc
Provides comprehensive services to grandparents raising grandchildren in parent-absent household in South Fulton and DeKalb counties. Services include home-based social work and case management, nurse home visits or health provider referrals, grandparent support group meetings and parenting education classes, legal services referrals, transportation, and childhood early intervention.
website: http://www.gsu.edu/phg
Girl Scout Council of Northwest Georgia
Girl Scouting provides affordable, safe, skill-enhancing programs, during non-school hours, that build girls of courage, confidence and character. Since 99% of programming is delivered by adult volunteers, most of whom are parents, we require that they are screened, trained and provided support that helps them effectively serve as leaders, role models and mentors.
Our values-based programming introduces girls, ages 5-17, to new learning experiences, community service opportunities and career options. Girl Scout's inclusive activities and events also strengthen girls' self-esteem, physical ability and leadership skills while fostering friendships and respect for others. Through Girl Scouting, girls are encouraged to follow the tenants of the Girl Scout Promise and Law and to incorporate these principles both during and outside of council activities and events.
website: http://www.girlscoutsnwga.org
Girl Scouts of Pine Valley Council
Provides after-school activities to girls in partnership with caring adults in a nurturing environment that allows girls to build character, confidence and courage by learning new skills, develop values such as patriotism and service as well as, learning to appreciate their multicultural communities. This council serves the Pine Valley area.
website: http://www.girlscoutsofpinevalley.com
Girls Incorporated of Greater Atlanta
Provides after-school and summer programs designed to promote self-confidence, independence and self-sufficiency in girls (6-18). Programs include teenage pregnancy prevention, science and math education, sexual abuse prevention and many others.
website: http://www.girlsincatl.org
Goodwill Industries of North Georgia
Goodwill provides resources and learning opportunities for people with barriers to employment seeking to increase their self-sufficiency. Goodwill's service area includes 45 counties across north Georgia. Services range from a growing number of Connections Centers, open to the public, for job search and business development, to intensive services, including: case management, evaluation, work adjustment, occupational skills training, job development, business development, and follow up services.
website: http://www.ging.org
GUIDE
GUIDE is a community-based substance abuse prevention agency that specializes in positive youth development through leadership development and the provision of opportunities for youth to apply these skills. For over 18 years, GUIDE has worked with youth action teams throughout Georgia, providing leadership skills training and support for teams to plan and implement community service and prevention projects with and for their peers.
website: http://www.guideinc.org
Gwinnett Childrens Shelter
To provide a positive environment of change and growth for children youth and families in crisis through emergency shelter for abused and abandoned youth, counseling and community outreach services.
website: http://www.gwinnettchildrenshelter.org
Gwinnett Coalition for Health and Human Services
The Coalition is a private public partnership that makes a difference by improving the lives of Gwinnett's citizens. More than 1,000 volunteers have created an exciting collaboration that focuses on strengthening Gwinnett's individuals and families, children and youth, and communities.
website: http://www.gwinnettcoalition.org
Gwinnett Neighborhood Leadership Institute
The Gwinnett Neighborhood Leadership Institute is an intensive, 8-month program that trains, empowers and supports ordinary citizens and community leaders so that they can promote positive changes in their neighborhoods and communities. The purpose of the program is to develop community leaders who will assist others in understanding their government and effectively identify and address community problems.
website: http://www.gnli.org
Harvest Rain Academy
The organization has been providing services to the South Fulton and Atlanta community for approximately seven years. In partnership with Toys for Tots, Atlanta Food Bank, United Way, Department of Family and Children Services, Bright from the Start, Fulton County Art Council and other community business the agency have successfully fed, clothes and provided youth services for over 100-300 low income families annually. The organization does its youth work through a state licensed childcare center.
website: http://www.harvestrain.org
Hearts to Nourish Hope
Provides a place where youth can develop life-coping skills & successfully put them into practice while connecting with the community by serving others.
Henry County Council on Aging
Provides funds & or manpower to promote wellness & independence as well as to provide local/leisure activities for seniors.
Henry County Council on Child Abuse
The Henry County Council on Child Abuse is a local non-profit organization. We are a chartered council of Prevent Child Abuse Georgia and a member agency of United Way. Prevent Child Abuse Henry County sponsors an ongoing child abuse prevention program, First Steps. We also sponsor community awareness campaigns and offer Child Abuse 101 classes.
website: http://www.pcahc.net
Hillside Hospital
Provides quality, cost-effective treatment & education to seriously emotionally disturbed children, adolescents & their families. Services include intensive residential treatment, therapeutic foster care and community intervention wraparound services.
website: http://www.hside.org
Housing Authority of Newnan
Provides safe, clean, modern housing assistance while promoting self-sufficiency, upward mobility & homeownership opportunities to the residents of the city of Newnan. The agency also provides a quality early care and after-school program for the resident of our county.
Housing Initiative of North Fulton
We help local homeless families overcome their housing crisis and return to self sufficiency by providing housing in combination with an individualized support program including mentoring, money management and life skills development.
website: http://www.homestretch.org
I CARE
Provides free and reliable transportation to DeKalb seniors 55+ through volunteer drivers.
website: http://www.icareseniors.org
Inner Harbour LTD
Inner Harbour's non-profit treatment facilities and programs offer unique specialized treatment for children and adolescents who have not experienced success in previous programs. We offer a range of psychiatric treatment, group homes, male and female adolescent sexual behaviors program, juvenile offender programs, afterschool programs and outpatient services.
website: http://www.innerharbour.org
Inner Strength, Inc.
Inner Strength offers a complete youth development experience that will enhance the character and skills of middle and high school age males. By helping youth to identify their strengths through academic achievement, violence prevention counseling/mentoring, and challenging recreational activities, youth become active agents in their own change.
website: http://www.innerstrength.org
Institute for Multicultural Rehabilitation
Provides effective, comprehensive and affordable treatment services to citizens of metropolitan Atlanta.
Interlocking Communities Inc
Offers academic and enrichment learning by certified teachers to high-risk targeted students in the Title One schools of Gwinnett County. Additional programs for teaching English to non-English speakers, computerTechnology classes and activities for involving residents in their community.
International Community School
The International Community School (ICS), a public charter school located in DeKalb County brings together refugee, immigrant and mainstream children in an academically challenging and nurturing environment in grades K-6. The ICS values include academic excellence, community in diversity, service-oriented education and family and community partnerships.
website: http://www.intcomschool.org
International Rescue Committee
At work in 25 countries, the IRC delivers lifesaving aid in emergencies, rebuilds shattered communities, cares for war-traumatized children, rehabilitates health care, water and sanitation systems, reunites separated families, restores lost livelihoods, establishes schools, trains teachers, strengthens the capacity of local organizations and supports civil society and good-governance initiatives. For refugees afforded sanctuary in the United States, IRC offices across the country provide a range of assistance aimed at helping new arrivals get settled, adjust and acquire the skills to become self-sufficient. Committed to restoring dignity and self-reliance, the IRC is a global symbol of hope and renewal for those who have taken flight in search of freedom.
website: http://www.theirc.org/atlanta/
International Womens House
Provides emergency shelter, food, clothing, housing, childcare, transportation, healthcare, legal representation, daily living activities, information and referral, and crisis social services.
Jewish Family and Career Services
Dedicated to helping individuals and families meet the challenges of daily life, Jewish Family & Career Services provides a continuum of non-sectarian services that focus on the multiplicity of challenging circumstances confronted by all of us over the life span. Over 280 staff and 1,700 volunteers provide community-wide services to over 30,000 individuals annually. Our 45 programs represent the areas of counseling, developmental disabilities, community education, career services, aging, volunteerism, and specialty services (including homeless services and dental services).
website: http://www.jfcs-atlanta.org
Joseph Sams School
The Joseph Sams School provides educational and therapeutic services to students with mild to severe intellectual, physical or developmental disabilities from birth through 22 years of age.
website: http://www.josephsams.org
Juvenile Justice Fund
The Juvenile Justice Fund was created out of the need of Fulton County Juvenile Court to provide constructive alternatives for youth detention and returning children to unsafe, destructive homes. Until the establishment of the Fund, limited options were available to the Court to influence the outcomes that would be realized by these children and their families. The Fund develops and incubates structured and creative interventions to mend the broken lives of troubled youth and their famlies and thus serves as a model for systemic change.
website: http://www.juvenilejusticefund.org
Kids In Need of Dreams
Provides legal and other resources to children and their families to prevent school failure.
website: http://www.truancyproject.org
Lakeview Community Action Committee
Works to rebuild the Lakeview community.
Latin American Association
The LAA is the largest service provider targeting Latinos in the metro Atlanta area. We offer a broad range of comprehensive programs and services in the LAA main office and at 4 outreach centers around the metro area. The LAA offers assistance and programs in employment, ESL, Spanish, housing, legal, family support, and youth.
website: http://www.latinamericanassoc.org
Leas Kids
After school and all day summer program for children and youth 5-17 years of age living in the Farrington Apartment Complex that helps develop children's educational,social, and spiritual skills through tutoring, song instruction, storytelling, life skills teaching, exercise, and the provision of a healthy atmosphere, uplifting activities and discipline. Emphasis is placed on partnering with schools, parents, community, and benefactors to provide and safe and positive motivational program that encourages them to stay in school and to excel.
website: http://www.leaskids.org
Lilburn Elementary School
Pursues academic excellence resulting in measurable improvement against local, national, and international standards.
Link Counseling Center
The Link Counseling Center, serving the community since 1971, provides affordable counseling, psychotherapy, and support groups for all ages.
website: http://www.thelink.org
Literacy Action, Inc.
Literacy Action provides an employment oriented adult education program that includes basic skills training, job readiness and computer skills for clients who lack the high school diploma, and read only between the 4th and 6th grade levels and preGED and GED classes for those who score 7.0-9.0 and higher. The agency provides basic to advanced computer training to raise technical skill levels and increase employability for all participants.
website: http://www.literacyaction.org
Lutheran Services of Georgia
Lutheran Services of Georgia (LSG) is a statewide nonprofit agency, founded in 1981, which seeks to achieve its mission through partnerships and collaborative efforts. LSG offers more than twenty social service programs and has four offices in metro-Atlanta. LSG’s Community Services Department includes various refugee resettlement programs, employment services, disaster response, a food and nutrition program, youth services, and childcare resource and referral. The Placement Services Department provides adoption services and foster care, including services for developmentally disabled adults.
website: http://www.lsga.org
Marcus Jewish Community Center
Provides social, physical, leisure, recreational, cultural and educational opportunities that build and strengthen the quality of Jewish life in Atlanta. The MJCCA provides a myriad of programs and services to the community.
website: http://www.atlantajcc.org
Mary Hall Freedom House
Provides chemical dependency treatment, residential services, therapeutic childcare services, life skill training, parenting skills training, vocational/educational assessment and placement, job readiness training, mental health assessment and services, women and their children.
website: http://www.maryhallfreedomhouse.org
Memorial Drive Presbyterian Community Childrens Program
Childcare center, part-time and full time preschool, kindergarten, first grade and after school program.
website: http://www.mdpccp.org
MUST Ministries
MUST Ministries is a multifaceted facility with 3 locations in 2 counties - Smyrna and Marietta in Cobb and Canton in Cherokee. All 3 locations have a food pantry, clothes closet and financial assistance. Marietta has an emergency night shelter, shower ministry and community kitchen. Additionally, Marietta and Smyrna have an education and employment department to help people get back into the job market. MUST provides people with the basics of life and strives to break the cycle of poverty. Other overall MUST services include transitional housing, children's programs and access to free health care.
website: http://www.mustministries.org
Neighborhood Collaborative Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc
Increases the capacity of communities and neighborhoods to improve the quality of life through collaboration, multi-constituent integration, partnerships and cooperation.
website: http://www.gsu.edu
Newnan Coweta Habitat for Humanity
Newnan-Coweta Habitat for Humanity's mission is to partner with the community to build simple, decent, affordable houses, eliminating poverty housing in Coweta County. Houses are built by future homeowners and community volunteers under skilled supervision. We also strive to educate our families along with others in the community, teaching them appropriate homeownership skills.
website: http://www.nchfh.org
Newnan-Coweta Association for Retarded Citizens (NCARC/Rutledge)
The Rutledge Center strives to enrich the lives of people with disabilities and their families by providing information, advocacy and support which creates choices to participate more independently in the life of the community
Nicholas House Inc
Nicholas House Inc. (NHI) assists homeless families become self-sufficient. It operates two transitional housing shelters, LaVista, Boulevard, and Homeless to Homes (H2H) Housing First apartment leasing program. This year, NHI will help more than 70 families to correct the root causes of their homelessness by providing up to two years of housing, meals and a comprehensive array of services targeted to each family's specific needs. Aftercare programs for graduating families are provided to support the families in maintaining permanent housing.
website: http://www.nicholashouse.org
North Fulton Child Development Association
The Child Development Association (CDA) is an exemplary, nationally accredited childcare and early learning education program that now serves 180 children each day, ages 3 months to 5 years. We provide affordable services to the children on low-income, working families. We offer:
• NAEYC-accredited curricula, including pre-Kindergarten
• two nutritious meals and a snack each day
• numerous health-related screenings such as vision, hearing and dental
• parenting skills workshops and parent counseling
• crisis intervention
• human service referrals
North Fulton Community Charities
NFCC seeks to prevent homelessness in North Fulton by assisting residents with food, clothing, rent, utilities, medical and transportation needs on an emergency basis. NFCC seeks to help residents overcome impediments to self-sufficiency by brokering services for residents and advocating for affordable, accessible health and other services.
website: http://www.nfcchelp.org
Northwest Youth Power Inc
Northwest Youth Power is a 501 (c) (3) community based organization, providing comprehensive human services to children youth and families. Northwest Youth Power programs, outreach and projects involve collaborations and partnerships with numerous organizations such as Atlanta Housing Authority, Ben Carson Middle School, Douglas High School, the Fulton County Department of Human Services, the Morehouse School of Medicine and the Metropolitan YMCA.
website: http://www.northwestyouthpower.org
Odyssey Family Counseling Center
Provides counseling and prevention services for mental health and substance abuse to residents of greater metro Atlanta.
website: http://www.odysseycounseling.org
Osborne Prevention Task Force
Focuses on mobilizing the Osborne Community stakeholders to develop comprehensive, sustained, connected initiatives that will promote a healthy community. Promotes healthy adolescent behavior and reciprocally prevent problem behavior, resident leadership and involvement, and a partnership with local agencies and law enforcement groups.
website: http://www.optf.org
Our House, Inc.
Our House provides three major programs, Early Childhood Education, Family Advocacy and Strengthening Services, and Parent Intern/CDA training program for homeless parents.
website: http://www.ourhousega.org
Parent to Parent of Georgia
Provides one-to-one emotional support and information to parents of children with disabilities or special health care needs. Emotional support and information is provided by counselors who assist families in identifying needs, conduct individualized database searches based on the families' specific situation, provide emotional support by matching new parents of a child with a disability with an experienced parent, and provide appropriate referrals to service providers.
website: http://www.parenttoparentofga.org
Partnership Against Domestic Violence
Supporting women and their children in their efforts to live violence free. PADV works to end domestic violence by offering safety and shelter for battered women and their children; restoring power, self-sufficency and control to domestic violence survivors; and educating the public about the dynamics of domestic violence.
website: http://www.padv.org
Partnership for Community Action, Inc.
Provides multi-service family support and child development (Head Start and Early Head Start) services for low-income families in DeKalb, Gwinnett, and Rockdale counties.
website: http://www.pcaction.org
Pathways Community Network
Pathways operates a community information system that links together more than 250 organizations that serve the homeless, poor and uninsured, which make it possible for these agencies to share information about the people they serve and the services they receive, and work together more closely to provide more effective help for people in need. Pathways also conducts regional homeless census counts.
website: http://www.pcni.org
Paulding Collaborative for Children and Families
Provides service referrals to families in crisis throughout Paulding County, helping those in need find emergency assistance to food, rent, parenting classes, infant supply/clothes, new parent resources and quality child care assistance.
PEACE
Address social, political, and economic issues that have crippled the Bedford Pine Community by identifying needs, creating opportunities, and empowering residents to solicit resources.
website: http://www.operationpeace.org
Peoplestown Revitalization Corporation
Aims to improve the quality of life (i.e., economic development, residential development and rehabilitation including affordable and low income housind), community education and organization in community safety, assessment of neighborhood needs, establishing organizational response mechanisms, building collaborations and partnerships, and providing employment opportunities through workforce development programs for Peoplestown residents.
website: http://www.peoplestown.com
Planned Parenthood of Georgia
Established in 1964, Planned Parenthood of Georgia is a social health organization that promotes women's health care; provides affordable, medical health care and family planning services; delivers comprehensive sexuality education; and advocates on behalf of women and families for progressive public policies.
website: http://www.ppga.org
Premier Academy, Inc.
Provides quality comprehensive early childhood and school-aged educational programs for preschool children to foster their physical, social, emotional and intellectual development through planned educational opportunities.
website: http://www.premier-academy.org
Prevent Child Abuse Georgia
Prevent Child Abuse Georgia is the only statewide nonprofit organization dedicated solely to preventing abuse before a child is harmed, rather than wait until it occurs and then try to repair the damage.
website: http://www.pcageorgia.org
Prevent Child Abuse Rockdale
Assists in the prevention of child abuse and neglect in all forms by providing high quality parent education and prevent programs, increasing public awareness, and educating the community. This council serves Rockdale County and the surrounding area.
website: http://www.pcarockdale.org
Project Open Hand Atlanta Inc
Project Open Hand provides freshly cooked meals and nutrition services to people with symptomatic HIV/AIDS, homebound seniors, and individuals with other critical illnesses or disabilities, as well as our clients' dependent children.
website: http://www.projectopenhand.org
Project ReNeWal
Provides emergency temporary housing and services to individuals and their children who are victims of domestic violence through a 24-hour crisis line.
Quality Care for Children
Works to expand the capacity of parents, child care providers and communities to nurture and educate children
website: http://www.qualitycareforchildren.org
Refuge Pregnancy Center
Promotes pregnancy prevention education for young women and provides support for pregnant women through education, material resources and support.
website: http://www.refugepregnancycenter.com
Refugee Family Services
Refugee Family Services serves women and children with a variety of programs, in three areas, Women’s Support, Strengthening Families and Youth Services. Our staff most of whom are refugees and immigrants hail from more than nine countries and collectively speak 20 languages. We are in Stone Mountain, near where many recent arrivals are being resettled. Our bilingual staff provide services on site, at different service agencies, and in clients’ homes, on an individual basis or in group settings and workshops.
website: http://www.refugeefamilyservices.org
Reynoldstown Revitalization Corporation
RRC also known as Reynoldstown Revitalization Corporation is a private nonprofit community development corporation that is expanding its holistic model of services in community building, housing development, property management and home buyer education to a five county area in Metro Atlanta. RRC has provided services to the community of Reynoldstown, a small community located in the Southeast corridor of Atlanta, since 1989. The organization is the catalyst that set in motion the revitalization and development work now seen in that area of Atlanta.
website: http://www.reynoldstown.org
Rockdale Coalition for Children and Families
The Rockdale Coalition for Children and Families works to provide linkages between agencies that serve children and families. The Coalition also works to engage the community at large in supporting parents and families with knowledge and information, through research and public discussion of issues to assure that all of the community’s children and youth have the developmental assets they require to grow into healthy adulthood.
Rockdale Emergency Relief Fund
RER provides assistance to clients that are experiencing a temporary financial crisis that disrupts their self-sufficiency and financial stability. RER's assistance includes: financial assistance for past-due rents, mortgages, and utilities; groceries from the RER Community Food Bank; financial assistance for emergency antibiotics; and a voucher program for clothing, short-term shelter, fast-food meals, and gasoline. RER's programs are designed to empower clients with supportive services and resources to recover and rebuild a productive, stable lifestyle for themselves and for their families.
website: http://www.RockdaleEmergencyRelief.org
Saint Josephs Mercy Care Services Inc
Saint Joseph's Mercy Care Services provides primary healthcare and supportive services to the homeless and medically underserved population of metro Atlanta.
website: http://www.stjosephsatlanta.org
Salvation Army
Helps to meet human need in local communities during crisis situations. Services in metro Atlanta include: helping individuals and families in financial crisis; providing emergency/transitional food and shelter for homeless men, women and children; providing addiction treatment for men and women; and providing after-school programs for at-risk boys and girls.
website: http://www.salvationarmyusa.org
Samaritan House of Atlanta
Samaritan House transforms lives by helping homeless men and women achieve self-sufficiency through personalized employment readiness and life stabilization programs. We fulfill our mission through two core programs: Cafe 458 (our life stabilization program) and THE EDGE (our employment readiness program). We also operate our sister program, the Clean Street Team, a transitional employment and training program.
website: http://www.SamHouse.org
Samaritans Together of Henry County, Inc.
Provides emergency financial assistance to Henry County residents at/below poverty level. Assistance for utilities, rent/mortgage, medication and eyeglasses. We can also provide food and clothing with the help of 3 other agencies.
website: http://www.samaritanstogetherofhenrycounty.org
Scottdale Child Development Center
Scottdale Child Development & Family Resource Center offers quality, affordable, developmentally appropriate child care for diverse families in Central DeKalb.
website: http://www.scottdale.org
Senior Citizen Services of Metro Atlanta
Develops, implements and continually improves multiple services that enable older citizens to enjoy the highest quality of life, maintaining their independence and dignity.
website: http://www.scsatl.org/
Senior Connections
Senior Connections' mission is to maximize independence and enhance the quality of life of seniors. Services received by low-income seniors are provided through four core programs: In-Home Services, Home Delivered Meals, Home Repair, and six Senior Wellness Centers. By allowing seniors to remain in their own homes and not placing them into institutional care, millions of Medicaid dollars are saved annually [ref: ARC]. Through dignity, choice, and care, seniors in the Atlanta community receive needed services to remain independent.
website: http://www.srconn.org
SHARE House Inc
Someone Helping Another through Resources and Education (S.H.A.R.E.) House, Inc. is a domestic violence crises center. Our mission is to provide immediate crisis intervention and services to abused women and children to help promote personal responsibility and self sufficiency. We provide safe housing to victimized women and children. These services include emergency shelter, transitional housing, temporary protective orders, support groups, legal advocacy, and TANF assessments.
website: http://www.geocities.com/sharehousecares
Sheltering Arms Early Education and Family Centers
Total program capacity is 2,238 children and their families, and ten pregnant women, in 16 neighborhood centers in seven metropolitan Atlanta counties. In 2005 a total of 4,103 unduplicated children and their families were served. The early education program is NAEYC accredited, meets Head Start Performance Standards, and centers are recognized as Centers of Distinction by the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning. The family support program is recognized as an exemplary program by the national Strengthening Families Initiative.
website: http://www.shelteringarmsforkids.com
Shepherds Rest Ministries
Provides emergency shelter, food, clothing, emergency transportation, legal advocacy, counseling, resource referrals, financial assistance with moving costs and/or transportation for women and children in domestic violence situations, and financial aid to qualified families in the community in need of utility or rental assistance.
website: http://www.shepherdsrestministries.com
Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia
Provides education, screening & counseling programs for sickle cell & other abnormal hemoglobin in order to monitor the occurrence of sickle cell, and provide programs that improve the quality of life for those with the disease.
website: http://www.sicklecellatlaga.org
Southern Crescent Habitat for Humanity
Partner with other community resources to provide decent, affordable housing to responsible low-income families regardless of ethnicity, gender, age or religion. Coverage area is Clayton, Fayette and Henry County.
website: http://www.schabitat.org
St Judes Recovery Center
St. Jude's Recovery Center, a nonprofit substance abuse treatment center, has been serving homeless and low-income men, women, and families in metropolitan Atlanta since 1962. Services are based on a full continuum of care and include detoxification, residential and outpatient treatment, after-treatment care, employment aid, healthcare, parenting education, children's programming, and family support services.
website: http://www.stjudesrecovery.org
Stepping Stones
Stepping Stones is a hospital based eary intervention program, a project of The Coweta Community Foundation Inc. Being under the umbrella of the Foundation allows the 501C3 status for the program. Teams of educators from the the eighteen elementary schools in Coweta County take the new mother a bag of readiness information when their baby is born inthe hospital. The bag contains a Baby's First Year Calendar, a Parent Handbook, a Baby book, Library information, a Community Resource List, and an Infant Developmental CD. One month after the baby is visited in the hospital, we follow-up with a phone call
and if needed, a home visit.
Stepping Stones Educational Therapy Center Inc
Stepping Stones Educational Therapy Center is a therapeutic and educational center for children ages six weeks to fourteen years dedicated to developing the full potential of special needs and typical children. The school serves children from nine sourrounding counties including Henry, Spalding, Butts, Lamar, Pike, Monroe, Upson, and Clayton.
website: http://www.steppingstonesschool.org
Sullivan Center
Offers help with dignity to families/individuals in crisis by providing direct financial aid, employment counseling and educational programming. We also sponsor a community garden and summer youth entrepreneurial leadership program.
website: http://www.thesullivancenter.org
SUMMECH Community Development Corp
Mature Community Development Corporation, that provides affordable housing, promotes home ownership and encourages economic development in order to revitalize the Mechanicsville community. SUMMECH has delivered 75 housing units for homeownership and nearly 250 units of affordable rental housing units in the Mechanicsville community.
website: http://www.summechcdc.com
Sweetwater Valley CAMP
We operate a Food Pantry, Clothing Closet, and Financial Aid office for residents of Austell, Clarkdale, Mableton and Powder Springs. We assist our neighbors who are currently at or below the federal poverty level.
website: http://www.svcamp.org
Tallapoosa Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc
Tallapoosa CASA provides screened, trained, supervised volunteers to advocate for abused and neglected children involved in deprivation proceedings in Paulding Juvenile Court. CASAs review DFCS files, interview parties, attend DFCS case plan meetings, visit families, observe visits, makes referrals, attend all court hearings with written reports with recommendations on the child's best interest for a safe, permanent and loving home.
website: http://www.casapaulding.org
Tallatoona Community Action Partnership Inc
Focuses on mobilizing all available local, state, private and federal resources to help low-income families/individuals obtain the skills, motivations and opportunities they need to become completely self-sufficient.
Tapestry Youth Ministries, Inc.
Tapestry Youth Ministries operations Second Chance Homes that provide residential and other supportive services to teen mothers between the ages of 13-21 and their children who are at risk of becoming homeless. Services include supportive housing, education and training, individual and group counseling, developmental childcare and transportation.
website: http://www.tapestryyouth.org
Teach O Rea Foundation
Teach O Rea Foundation is based in a multicultural community in Stone Mountain, GA which service 80 per cent low income, multicultural and at risk families since 1993. We have established an intensive interaction program with Teach O Rea Preparatory Preschool and Sunshine Childcare Center to integrate parents, local community, and children into our program. Our collaborative effort includes providing resources for child care and quality of life services to a growing number of multicultural families in the community.
Teens At Work
Serves as a resource and support program empowering youth to become positive leaders at home, school, and in their communities by incorporating life skills training, social development, educational enrichment, values clarification and experiential learning opportunities through after-school, other out-of-school activities and mentoring.
website: http://www.teensatwork.org
The Bridge, Inc.
For 37 years, The Bridge has been dedicated to helping abused adolescents and their families achieve independence by offering an on-campus school that emphasizes vocational readiness, solution-oriented therapy, family counseling and community-based activities. Despite an increasing number of youth entering Georgia’s foster care system, The Bridge continues to increase the number of adolescents who are reunited with family in safe and stable homes and who are successfully coping in the community.
website: http://www.thebridge-atlanta.org
The Center for Family Resources
Strengthens individuals, families, and communities to encourage their self-sufficiency. Services include financial aid, food, shelter, housing, life skills training, GED, literacy, mentoring, job readiness and retention skills, computer skills training, and community leadership development.
website: http://www.TheCFR.org
The Community Welcome House Inc
Education within the community to implement a coordinated response to domestic violence. Education brings change. Provide a safe haven in time of crisis. Individualized case management to address boundaries identified with domestic violence. Provode community education to address physical resources for affordable safe housing, day care, transportation, legal support, job training, empowerment that leads to self-reliance. Offering a leg up. Redefine normal for the victims and the children.
website: http://www.communitywelcomehouse.org
The Council on Aging
Provides isolated senior citizens with needs assessments, information and referrals to services such as transportation health, legal, housing, and home delivered meals which are critical in sustaining the daily existence for the older adult.
The Drake House
The Drake House is a residential assessment center that provides emergency residential housing for single mother and their minor children with an assessment to identify most pressing needs.
website: http://www.thedrakehouse.org
The Edge Connection
The Edge Connection is a microenterprise training agency targeting low-to-moderate- income individuals desiring to launch, sustain, or expand a micro-business. Participants learn business development, life skills, technology training specific to business ownership, and economic literacy. They also gain access to capital and ongoing technical assistance. In the fall of 2004, CMC became a new Atlanta Area SBA Women’s Business Center.
website: http://www.theedgeconnection.com
The IMPACT Group
Originally established as the Gwinnett Housing Resource Partnership in 1992 to create and preserve quality affordable housing within Gwinnett County, while promoting fair and non discriminatory housing practices for the low and moderate-income population.
website: http://www.theimpactgroup.org
The Study Hall
The Study Hall is a scholastic after-school program serving the low-income families of the Peoplestown community, a neighborhood in south Atlanta. We presently have 65 scholars, K-8th grade, in our program. Sixty-nine percent of our families are single head of household with over half receiving free lunch at school. Moreover, according to the January 2006 report cards, 27 of our participants made the Honor Role.
website: http://www.thestudyhall.org
Travelers Aid of Metropolitan Atlanta Inc
Travelers Aid is a 106 year old agency that provides a continuum of emergency services to those in crisis in the 13-county United Way area. We assist with emergency shelter, first month's rent, transitional housing, permanent housing for persons with disabilities, homeless prevention, Housing First, and long distance travel, and we have special programs for battered women and those living with HIV/AIDS. We provide outreach services at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport and the 24/7 Gateway Center.
website: http://www.travelersaidatlanta.org
Trinity Community Ministries Inc
Trinity Community Ministries exists to provide faith-based, transformational opportunities both for people who are hungry and homeless, and for volunteers. This is acheived through three programs: Trinity Table, the only large-scale Sunday soup kitchen in dowtown Atlanta; Trinity House-Big Bethel, a transitional housing program for men recovering from substance abuse; and Trinity Lodge, a short-term affordable housing aftercare home for former residents of Trinity House-Big Bethel.
website: http://www.tcmatlanta.org
Uplifting People Inc
Uplifting People Inc. was founded in 1995 by Kevin Wilkinson and Free Polazzo as a vehicle to serve individuals with a history of incarceration, to prevent re- incarceration. Our ultimate goal is to promote public safety through pre-release and reentry services in prisons and in local communities throughout Georgia. We hold a preeminent position of leadership and excellence in helping prisoners to prepare for their release, the return to their communities, and to adjust to life as productive law abiding citizens.
website: http://www.upliftingpeople.org
USO Council of Georgia
Provides family support, morale, social welfare, crisis intervention, and basic needs services to uniformed military personnel, and their families.
website: http://www.usogeorgia.org
Visiting Nurse Health System
As Georgia's largest nonprofit homecare and hospice provider, Visiting Nurse Health System (hereafter referred to as VNHS) is committed to innovatively and effectively responding to our community's most vulnerable citizens - the elderly and the chronically ill. Established in 1948, the mission of VNHS is to deliver compassionate, innovative and cost effective home health, case management services and end-of-life care of the highest quality. VNHS is an accredited, nonprofit, community-based organization serving over 15,000 patients annually in 26 metropolitan Atlanta counties.
website: http://www.vnhs.org
VOX Teen Communications
Teenagers join VOX to share their stories, be in a safe social space, connect with peers and the Atlanta community, and, to learn how to write, take photographs, use computers, design a publication and work on a team. VOX also offers peer-support groups, vocational training and mentoring, a summer program, and writing workshops.
website: http://www.voxrox.org
Whitefoord Community Program
WCP operates two school clinics (the Whitefoord Elementary and Coan Middle School clinics), a Child Development Program and a Family Learning & Community Development Center which includes after-school and summer programs for youth between the ages of 5 through 18 . The mission of the Whitefoord Community Program is to partner with families and the community to ensure that every child has what s/he needs to succeed in school.
website: http://www.whitefoord.org
Wholistic Stress Control Institute Inc
WSCI is a 22-year old non-profit community based organization who provides a varieity of multi-purpose human services in the areas of education, prevention, intervention and treatment related to teen pregnancy, mental health, juvenile delinquency, violence, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS and other areas.
website: http://www.wholistic1.com
YMCA Butler Street
To provide through quality programs, the strengthening of families, healthy development of children, positive individual behavior, and a healthier, safer community for all. These programs emphasize caring, respect, honesty, responsibility, character building, fun and friendship. Our YMCA is a charitable organization that creates a sense of community by involving individuals and families of all ages, abilities, genders, incomes and races.
website: http://www.butlerstreetymca.org
YMCA of Metropolitan Atlanta
Our Metro Atlanta YMCA serves 217,000 women, men and children on a daily basis. We have 22 YMCA branches in metropolitan Atlanta in the counties of Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Fayette, Forsyth, Henry, Newton, Walton, Cherokee, Coweta, & Rabun. We provide child care, educational, social, physical activity, health and wellness programs for boys, girls, men, & women; also provides outreach programs to at-risk teens.
website: http://www.ymcaatlanta.org
Young Family Community Resource Center
Provides young parents fully enrolled in high school during school hours with life skills training.
website: http://www.turnerchapelame.org
Youth Vibe
The Vision of Youth VIBE is "Empowering Tomorrow's Leaders." Youth VIBE for the past 10 years has offered leadership development, job training, computer training and college prep to at-risk youth enabling them to establish professional business relationships with community leaders in a structured environment outside of school hours. This year, we have expanded our services to include daily afterschool programs for over 120 youth in two DeKalb County School locations: Avondale High School and Cedar Grove High School.
website: http://www.youthvibe.org
YouthPride
YouthPride is a community-based, youth-focused, volunteer-led program creating positive change in the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth (13-24) through advocacy, education, outreach, support services and community activities. YouthPride provides discussion and support groups, workshops, and other services addressing the developmental needs and potential risks faced by sexual minority youth.
website: http://www.youthpride.org
YWCA of Greater Atlanta
The YWCA of Greater Atlanta provides resources, programs and services to empower women, girls, children and families throughout metropolitan Atlanta.
website: http://www.ywcaatlanta.org
YWCA of Northwest Georgia Inc
Offers programs and services that support and empower the lives of girls, women and families and works toward the elimination of racism. This YWCA serves Cobb, Paulding, Douglas, Cherokee and Bartow counties.
website: http://www.ywcanwga.com
Zion Hill Community Development Corporation
Zion Hill CDC, a faith-based, non-profit organization that was established in 2002, is located just south of Atlanta in East Point, Georgia, a community with chronically high unemployment and poverty rates exceeding the national average. Zion Hill CDC provides comprehensive services to women and their children experiencing or at risk of homelessness and families transition from p public assistance. Zion Hill CDC's services empower participants to attain and maintain self-sufficiency through educational, developmental and financial resource.
website: http://www.zionhillcdc.org
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