Community Outreach to Diversity Organizations

The AARP Foundation Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) helps job seekers improve their skills, obtain training, and find a job. If you're 55 or over and meet the income guidelines, we can help you enter-or re-enter-the job market. SCSEP helps you improve your skills and gain work experience and self-confidence so that you can succeed in your job search.

The mission of the Achor Center is to provide an exceptional, effective, innovative model of intervention for homeless women and women with children. Achor will provide a comprehensive strategy of support and education to promote economic independence and participation in mainstream society. The purpose of the Achor Center is to provide a safe and nurturing environment where participants are able to develop appropriate parenting and life skills by becoming regularly engaged in constructive activities that promote positive family and community lifestyles.

Action Ministries works in communities across North Georgia to provide help and hope for the hurting. We are a faith-based non-profit organization with roots in the United Methodist Church. Our programs of feeding, clothing, children’s services, emergency assistance, transitional housing, services for persons with HIV/AIDS and support in overcoming addiction and homelessness offer help in crisis today and hope for wholeness tomorrow.

The Agape Community Center opened in June of 1997 as an outreach ministry of Trinity Presbyterian Church. The Center now operates as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization governed by representatives from neighborhoods, churches, and other community organizations. Our mission is to help neighborhoods built communities. To accomplish this mission, the Center provides programs and facilitates community organizing for the residents of the Bolton Road community in northwest Atlanta.

The Arts and Design Society endeavors to stimulate high standards of art works and to provide increasing opportunities to artists to expand their knowledge and expertise.

Founded in 1986, the Atlanta Children's Shelter provides free, quality day care, emotional support, an educational curriculum for homeless children, and focused social services for their families. Dedicated to helping families overcome the issues that contribute to homelessness, including domestic violence and job loss, the Atlanta Children's Shelter focuses on the long term self sufficiency of the family – which sets us apart from other Atlanta homeless shelters.

The AEC Employment Program is an employment program that addresses the unique employment needs of the homeless and those who are at risk of becoming homeless. Prevention and recovery from homelessness are our priorities, putting people to work in permanent jobs is what we do.

Our mission is to foster hope among persons who are addicted and/or homeless and provide them with support system for their internal process of recovery as defined by the 12-Step program. Through this process we will continue to achieve a very high rate of successful recovery and eventual self-sufficiency.

Atlanta Union Mission is a Christian ministry that brings Christ's healing power to any person in crisis through programs of rescue and recovery. The Mission serves as many as 1,070 men, women and children every day of the year with emergency shelter, residential recovery and transitional housing. Over the years, the Mission has grown from a single shelter in downtown Atlanta to six facilities, which provide emergency food and shelter, residential recovery programs and transitional housing.

Bobby Dodd Institute empowers people with disabilities and disadvantages to take ownership of and grow their potential. By focusing on the cultivation of abilities, the lives of our clients are changed as they gain independence, build economic self-sufficiency, and ultimately integrate into the workplace.

Caring For Others, Inc. (CFO) provides food, financial assistance, new clothing and furniture to its constituents, and collaborates with government agencies, social service organizations, and churches to provide a continuum of services that empowers families with life skills, job training, and career counseling to encourage economic self-sufficiency for a better quality of life.

Catholic Charities Atlanta, Inc. is an outreach ministry of the Archdiocese of Atlanta rooted in the gospel with a special concern for those most in need and most vulnerable. As an agent of compassion and hope, Catholic Charities Atlanta calls all people to embrace charity and justice in their lives. In keeping with Catholic social teaching and Judaeo Christian principles, Catholic Charities Atlanta opens its doors to the most vulnerable and most in need from all walks of life.

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Atlanta partners with other local organizations to address the many needs of the people of North Georgia. Our mission, as a ministry rooted in the Gospel, is to move people facing adversity to wholeness and self-sufficiency. Our strategy is to direct our resources at specific areas of need where we can offer accredited, professional services.

The services of the Community Outreach Centers are focused on information and referral; job assistance; employment referrals and follow-up; and educational and social services for the community. All services are provided in English and Spanish.

The CHRIS Kids Independent Living Program (ILP) was established in 1986 to help youth in the foster care and juvenile justice systems, ages 17-21, make a successful transition to responsible, independent adulthood. Residents learn independent living skills through both informal coaching and a life/job skills curriculum. They pursue educational/job-related opportunities and practice responsible decision-making. They also receive assistance in developing natural support systems and utilizing community resources. Vocational and aftercare programs provide additional support.

Individual lives are changed every day at Mary Hall Freedom House. We do not take a cookie cutter approach to addressing the needs of our women, but offer individualized services designed to empower women and provide them with the tools and resources necessary to break the cycle of addiction and live drug free.