Category: Education

Benefits Application Assistance, Domestic Violence, Healthcare Services, Legal Assistance, Life Skills, Parenting Skills, Transitional Housing, Women & Children Housing

International Women’s House

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International Women’s House is a domestic violence shelter with a mission to provide a safe haven and supportive services to women and children who are the victims of family violence, sexual abuse, and human trafficking, with a focus on immigrant and refugee women and children, cultural sensitivity and self-sufficiency.

Services Offered:

  • Shelter
  • 24/7 Crisis Line: 770-413-5557
  • Multi-lingual Staff
  • Legal Advocacy
  • Counseling
  • Children’s Program
  • Parenting Skills Training
  • Financial Skills Building
  • Job Training
  • Interview and Resume-Writing Skills
  • Medication Management Assistance
  • Affordable Health Care
  • SNAP & Medicaid Applications
  • Immigration Paperwork
  • Transitional & Permanent Housing
Employment, Financial & Legal, Food Pantry, Healthcare Services, Job Skills, Transportation

Jewish Family & Career Services of Atlanta

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Jewish Family & Career Services is dedicated to strengthening and enriching the lives of individuals, families and community, both Jewish and non-Jewish, and helping them meet the challenges of daily life.

Services Offered:

  • Clinical Services
    • Therapy
    • Counseling
  • Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Services (IDDS)
    • Supported employment
    • IndependenceWORKS (IW) day program
    • The Zimmerman- Horowitz Independent Living Program
  • Career Assistance
    • Workshops & training
    • Job placement assistance
    • Coaching
  • Transportation
  • Emergency financial aid
  • Food pantry
Benefits Application Assistance, Clothing, Emergency shelter, Employment, Food Pantry, Hair Cuts, Healthcare Services, Job Skills, Life Skills, Rental Assistance, Transportation, Utility Assistance

Hosea Helps

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Hosea Helps is open every week providing rent and utility assistance, employment assistance, financial planning, emergency food, medical care and so much more. Their blend of adult and children’s programs allows them to contribute to the financial stability of each household, while enhancing the development of the children growing up in those households.

Services Offered:

  • Homeless prevention
    • Employment assistance
    • Rental assistance
    • Utility assistance
    • Emergency shelter
    • Rapid rehousing
    • Transportation assistance
  • Day Center
    • Emergency food
    • Get/renew food stamps
    • Stability assessment
    • Products for the household
    • Individual service plans
  • Self Sufficiency Programs
    • Women’s Life Skills program
    • Labor of Love labor day festival with job fair, job readiness seminars, financial planning classes, women and men’s clothing, fresh produce and more.
  • Children Services
    • Back to school festival provides a book bag filled with school supplies for every child that is with them, live entertainment all day, groceries and fresh produce to take home, clothing for the children, health care screenings, games and so much more.
    • Major holiday festivals (MLK Jr day, Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas) that provide free haircuts and styling, clothing, medical care, a hot meal, games, activities and live entertainment in a festival setting. 

Benefits Application Assistance, Food Pantry, Legal Assistance, Life Skills, Nutrition Education, Rental Assistance, Transitional Housing, Transportation, Utility Assistance

St. Vincent de Paul Georgia Council

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The St. Vincent de Paul Georgia Council operates 4 Family Support Centers (FSC) across North and Central Georgia. The FSCs collaborate with local SVdP Conferences and partnering agencies to provide a variety of invaluable services to people in need.  

Services Offered:

  • Rent & housing assistance
  • Utilities assistance
  • Medical/dental/prescriptions
  • Food pantry
  • Benefits screening (SNAP, TANF, medicaid, etc)
  • Legal fees
  • Transportation
  • Computer lab access
  • Life skills education
  • Burial
Clothing, Employment, Food Pantry, Hot Meals, Housing, Job Skills

MUST Ministries

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MUST addresses the basic needs of individuals, families and children with facilities in the Cobb and Cherokee counties and programs in numerous other counties. MUST brings people of many faiths together to respond to God’s challenge to minister to others with compassion and love, without judgment of the beliefs, background or circumstances of those who serve or are being served.

Services Offered:

  • Food pantry
  • Loaves & Fishes Community Kitchen lunch program
  • Emergency shelter
  • Permanent supportive housing
  • Employment assistance
  • Skills training
  • Clothing assistance
  • Summer lunch program
Family Housing, Job Skills, Life Skills, Parenting Skills, Women & Children Housing

Nicholas House

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Nicholas House provides four housing programs along with supportive services to meet the various levels of need that homeless families in Atlanta face. Nicholas House provides housing for homeless families consisting of at minimum one parent or guardian and one child. Our residents stay with us for an extended period of time while participating in our programs.

Services Offered:

  • Housing
  • Adult education & training
  • Youth services program
  • Aftercare
Food Pantry, Healthcare Services, Identification Assistance, Job Skills

Central Outreach & Advocacy Center

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Central Outreach and Advocacy Center is open for services Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm. On Wednesdays, in addition to the morning hours, we are also open from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Services are provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

Services Offered:

  • Birth certificates & ID cards
  • Emergency food pantry
  • Eye clinic
  • Reading glasses
  • Food stamp application assistance
  • Main Frame Job Readiness Program