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United Way 2-1-1 - provides free and confidential information and referral. Call 2-1-1 for help with food, housing, employment, health care, counseling and more.
Department of Community Affairs - The Georgia DCA partners with local communities across the state to provide a variety of programs and assistance that benefit and help secure the success of the community.

Statewide Rental Assistance

Privately Owned Subsidized Housing - HUD helps apartment owners offer reduced rents to low-income tenants.
Public Housing - Affordable apartments for low-income families, the elderly and persons with disabilities. To apply, contact a public housing agency.
HUD in Georgia - a wide range of useful information for renters
Housing Choice Voucher Program - This is a tenant-based rental assistance program that assists extremely low and low income individuals and families rent safe, decent, and affordable dwelling units in the private rental market.

Emergency Preparedness and Recovery Resources

Fair Housing Resources

The National Fair Housing Advocate - News and information regarding issues on housing discrimination.
Landlord Tenant Handbook - Frequently asked questions from tenants and landlords, including issues around fair housing.
Explanation of Housing Laws and Rights - HUD’s explanations of fair housing laws, which prevent discrimination on the basis of race, sex, ability, and age.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Website - The Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) administers and enforces federal laws and establishes policies that make sure all Americans have equal access to the housing of their choice.

Family Assistance

Georgia Gateway - One stop shop to apply for food stamps, WIC, Medicaid, TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), and more.
Social Security Online - Individuals can; apply for benefits, verify qualification to receive benefits, estimate future benefits, update your personal contact information, get a replacement card, request proof of income letter. Businesses can; report wages, verify Social Security numbers, submit records.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) - TANF cash assistance is a program providing temporary financial assistance to needy families. Eligibility for TANF cash assistance is determined by evaluating specific nonfinancial and financial criteria established by federal and state regulations.
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD) - Provides treatment and support services to people with mental illnesses and addictive diseases.
Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) - Part of DHS that investigates child abuse; finds foster homes for abused and neglected children; helps low income, out-of-work parents get back on their feet; assists with childcare costs for low income parents who are working or in job training; and provides numerous support services and innovative programs to help troubled families.

Statewide Elderly Resources

Georgia SHIP - Provides free, unbiased and factual information and assistance to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries and their caregivers about Medicare, Medicaid and related health insurance issues including long-term care insurance, prescription drug assistance programs and Medicare fraud, error and abuse.
Georgia Council on Aging - Advocate with and on behalf of aging Georgians and their families
Divison of Aging Services - Information & assistance, referral to community services/ resources, and consumer eligibility screening.
Elder Care Locator - Senior resources from a network of eldercare providers.
Medicare - Social insurance program administered by the united states government, providing health insurance coverage to people who are aged 65 and over, or who meet other special criteria.

Statewide Homeless Resources

Department of Community Affairs
Georgia Alliance to End Homelessness - Free, valuable tool for homeless service providers and persons at risk to search for resources in the state of Georgia. Search a database of over 1,100 homeless service providers in Georgia from any internet connection by logging onto www.gahomeless.org or call the homeless info hotline at 1-877-540-4671 to speak with an information service specialists Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Homeless Shelters in Georgia
Homeless Shelter Directory
HUD Homeless Information and Resources

Statewide Veteran Resources

United States Department of Veterans Affairs - administers a variety of benefits and services that provide financial and other forms of assistance to Veterans, their dependents, and their survivors.
Hire A Hero - Helps veterans find jobs.
Real Warriors - Multiple programs providing assistance to veterans, active military personnel, and their families.
Heroes to Hometowns - provides an array of services to injured service members returning home.

Domestic Violence Shelters

Legal Resources

Georgia Advocacy Office, Inc. - information on the Americans with Disabilities Act, legal advocacy for people with all types of disabilities.
Legal Aid - Legal services and information for low income Georgians.
Georgia Legal Services Program - provide access to justice and opportunities out of poverty for low-income Georgians.
Energy Assistance - Southeast Energy Assistance- Weatherization program providing home repairs designed to save energy and reduce or eliminate environmental hazards.
Heating Energy Assistance Team (HEAT) - Helps low-income Georgians pay their energy bills.

Other Resources

National Urban League - employment counseling, housing counseling services to homebuyers, homeowners, low-to moderate-income renters, and the homeless.
Georgia Relay 7-1-1 - A service administered by the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) to help those who are deaf, hard of hearing or speech disabled to use the phone.
Georgia Housing Authorities
Public Transportation
Georgia Department of Community Health - Find personal care homes, community living arrangements, assisted living facilities, or nursing home facilities that are in good standing and licensed to provide the necessary support services.
Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) - Help with paying part of energy bills for income eligible people.

Regional Homeowner Resources

North Georgia: Ninth District Opportunity: Low-Income Home Energy & Water Assistance - Heating Assistance assists qualifying households with a one-time payment of up to $500 to their primary electricity and water vendor.
North Georgia: Charlie's House: Safety Education and Child-Proofing - Charlie’s House is pleased to offer home safety education and child-proofing supplies to families needing these items.
North Georgia: Water Well Trust - Beneficiaries of the Water Well Trust are low-income families or individuals that have wells that are no longer functioning properly, have contamination issues that render the well unusable, or have no well or safe water source. The Water Well Trust also has funding for septic systems.
North Georgia: Ninth District Opportunity: Weatherization - The Weatherization program provides assistance to households to make their homes more energy efficient through conservation measures and minor home repairs.
North Georgia: American Red Cross Georgia Regional Headquarters: Georgia Home Fire Campaign - The Home Fire Campaign helps save lives by installing free smoke alarms in homes that don't have them, and by educating people about home fire safety.
Metro Atlanta: Partnership for Community Action: Low Income Home Energy Assistance (LIHEAP) - The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) provides financial assistance with utilities.
South Georgia: Charlie's House: Safety Education and Child-Proofing - Charlie’s House is pleased to offer home safety education and child-proofing supplies to families needing these items.
South Georgia: Coastal Plain Area E.O.A.: Minor Home Repair Program - Coastal Plain offers the Minor Home Repair Program to help individuals who would not otherwise be able to make repairs to their homes.
South Georgia: Coastal Plain Area E.O.A.: Water Utility Assistance - Coastal Plain offers limited financial assistance to help individuals pay for water utility bills in an effort to avoid the disconnection of water to the individual's residence.
South Georgia: Water Well Trust - Beneficiaries of the Water Well Trust are low-income families or individuals that have wells that are no longer functioning properly, have contamination issues that render the well unusable, or have no well or safe water source. The Water Well Trust also has funding for septic systems.
South Georgia: American Red Cross Georgia Regional Headquarters: Georgia Home Fire Campaign - The Home Fire Campaign helps save lives by installing free smoke alarms in homes that don't have them, and by educating people about home fire safety.
Coastal Georgia: American Red Cross Georgia Regional Headquarters: Georgia Home Fire Campaign - The Home Fire Campaign helps save lives by installing free smoke alarms in homes that don't have them, and by educating people about home fire safety.
Coastal Georgia: Charlie's House: Safety Education and Child-Proofing - Charlie’s House is pleased to offer home safety education and child-proofing supplies to families needing these items.
Coastal Georgia: City of Savannah: Minor Home Repair Program - Home Improvement Grants and Loans are offered to low-income homeowners for building exterior and site improvements that benefit both the homeowner and the surrounding neighborhood. Payments on loans by elderly homeowners are made at 0% to 3% interest with no payments during the home ownership.
Coastal Georgia: Water Well Trust - Beneficiaries of the Water Well Trust are low-income families or individuals that have wells that are no longer functioning properly, have contamination issues that render the well unusable, or have no well or safe water source. The Water Well Trust also has funding for septic systems.
Central Georgia: Allatoona Community Action Partnership: LIHEAP - The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) assists eligible low-income households with their heating and cooling energy costs.

Regional Rental Assistance

North Georgia: White County Sharing and Caring - provides assistance with housing, utilities, fuel, and other items on a case-by-case basis
North Georgia: Ninth District Opportunity Housing Assistance - The Housing Assistance program assists households that are currently homeless or in imminent danger of becoming homeless with the establishment of long-term housing stability through limited financial assistance and intense case management services.
North Georgia: Georgia Legal Services Program - provides eviction prevention services by giving free civil legal aid for low-income people outside of metro Atlanta.
Metro Atlanta: United Way of Greater Altanta - maintains a catalogue of rent assistance providers for individuals to consider.
Metro Atlanta: Net Works Cooperative Ministry - financial assistance with housing and utility assistance for neighbors within the Northlake-Embry Hills-Tucker area.
Metro Atlanta: Decatur Cooperative Ministry - Project Take Charge offers rent assistance, mortgage assistance, and utility assistance to at-risk families, individuals, and seniors with documented proof of impending housing loss or utility disconnection.
Metro Atlanta: Partnership for Community Action - Family Support and Emergency Assistance provides services that can intervene when there is an immediate crisis or emergency such as housing or utilities.
Metro Atlanta: Society of St. Vincent de Paul - provides financial assistance to those unable to meet their basic needs such as housing, utilities, transportation, clothing, and medicine.
Metro Atlanta: Cascade United Methodist Church - provides rent and utility assistance services and support to help those in financial crisis.
Metro Atlanta: Nicholas House - provides the Homeless to Homes (H2H) rapid rehousing program for families who are experiencing homelessness and have some income, but not enough to pay full rent.
Metro Atlanta: The Salvation Army - Project SHARE provides Financial Emergency Assistance to individuals and families facing a temporary crisis that threatens their home. Project Share is focused on utility assistance with some assistance for rental assistance.
Metro Atlanta: Atlanta Legal Aid - provides eviction prevention services by giving free civil legal aid for low-income people across metro Atlanta.
South Georgia: The Salvation Army - Valdosta - Project SHARE provides Financial Emergency Assistance to individuals and families facing a temporary crisis that threatens their home. Project Share is focused on utility assistance with some assistance for rental assistance.
South Georgia: Georgia Legal Services Program - provides eviction prevention services by giving free civil legal aid for low-income people outside of metro Atlanta.
Central Georgia: The Salvation Army - Project SHARE provides Financial Emergency Assistance to individuals and families facing a temporary crisis that threatens their home. Project Share is focused on utility assistance with some assistance for rental assistance.
Central Georgia: Georgia Legal Services Program - provides eviction prevention services by giving free civil legal aid for low-income people outside of metro Atlanta.

Regional Veteran Resources

North Georgia: Salute: Veteran Financial Assistance Program - Salute offers financial assistance to veterans who are in active duty, injured and/or transitioning back to civilian life. The program provides financial assistance for rent/mortgage payments, utilities, and other expenses.
North Georgia: Operation First Response: The Last Mission Project - The Last Mission Project, PTSD -The Battle On & Off The Field, hopes to alleviate financial stress for Veterans allowing them to make clear decisions about treatment without the burden of the cost it will have on the family.
North Georgia: Operation Homefront: Critical Financial Assistance - Operation Homefront assists military families during difficult financial times by providing food assistance, auto and home repair, vision care, travel and transportation, moving assistance, essential home items, and rent-free transitional housing for wounded veterans and their families.
North Georgia: Helping Hands For Freedom: Life Needs Financial Assistance - Helping Hands for Freedom provides emergency financial assistance to Veteran, Military or Gold Star family who have been honorably discharged with at least one child 18 or under in the home.
North Georgia: Military Housing Assistance Fund - The Military Housing Assistance Fund (MHAF) provides gift funds to assist active military and veteran families with purchasing a home.
North Georgia: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs offers VA housing assistance can help Veterans, service members, and their surviving spouses to buy a home or refinance a loan. They also offer benefits and services to help build, improve, or keep your current home.
North Georgia: Gary Sinise Foundation: R.I.S.E.- Specially Adapted Smart Homes - Gary Sinise Foundation offers their R.I.S.E. Specially Adapted Smart Homes program which provides one-of-a-kind specially adapted smart homes for the nation's most severely wounded heroes.
North Georgia: Operation Finally Home - Operation Finally Home provides custom-built, mortgage-free homes and home modifications to America’s military Heroes and the widows of the fallen, those who have worn America’s uniform and sacrificed so much to defend our freedoms and values.
North Georgia: Homes for Veterans: Home Modifications for Veterans - Homes for Veterans (HFV) modifies the homes of wounded veterans to help their heroes live barrier-free in their own homes. This program provides reconstructive services and accessibility modifications.
North Georgia: Navy Wounded Warrior: Support Services - Enrollment in the Navy Wounded Warrior is available to service members wounded in combat, as well as to those diagnosed with a serious illness or injured in shipboard, training and liberty accidents. Navy Wounded Warrior coordinates the non-medical care of seriously wounded, ill and injured Sailors and Coast Guardsmen, and provides resources and support to their families. This program provides housing/rental support.
North Georgia: Operation Homefront: Permanent Homes for Veterans - Permanent Homes for Veterans provides veterans with the opportunity to move into an Operation Homefront (OH) home and work directly with OH caseworkers and other financial counselors to learn and plan for home ownership.
Metro Atlanta: Salute: Veteran Financial Assistance Program - Salute offers financial assistance to veterans who are in active duty, injured and/or transitioning back to civilian life. The program provides financial assistance for rent/mortgage payments, utilities, and other expenses.
Metro Atlanta: HOPE Atlanta: Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) - SSVF helps qualifying veterans and their families gain access to the resources they need in order to successfully transition to or maintain permanent housing.
Metro Atlanta: Operation First Response: The Last Mission Project - The Last Mission Project, PTSD -The Battle On & Off The Field, hopes to alleviate financial stress for Veterans allowing them to make clear decisions about treatment without the burden of the cost it will have on the family.
Metro Atlanta: Operation Homefront: Critical Financial Assistance - Operation Homefront assists military families during difficult financial times by providing food assistance, auto and home repair, vision care, travel and transportation, moving assistance, essential home items, and rent-free transitional housing for wounded veterans and their families.
Metro Atlanta: Helping Hands For Freedom: Life Needs Financial Assistance - Helping Hands for Freedom provides emergency financial assistance to Veteran, Military or Gold Star family who have been honorably discharged with at least one child 18 or under in the home.
Metro Atlanta: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs offers VA housing assistance can help Veterans, service members, and their surviving spouses to buy a home or refinance a loan. They also offer benefits and services to help build, improve, or keep your current home.
South Georgia: Disabled American Veterans: Homeless Veterans Initiative - Homeless Veterans Initiative promotes the development of supportive housing and necessary services to assist homeless veterans in becoming productive, self-sufficient members of society.
South Georgia: Gary Sinise Foundation: R.I.S.E.- Specially Adapted Smart Homes - Gary Sinise Foundation offers their R.I.S.E. Specially Adapted Smart Homes program which provides one-of-a-kind specially adapted smart homes for the nation's most severely wounded heroes.
South Georgia: Operation Finally Home - Operation Finally Home provides custom-built, mortgage-free homes and home modifications to America’s military Heroes and the widows of the fallen, those who have worn America’s uniform and sacrificed so much to defend our freedoms and values.
South Georgia: Homes for Veterans: Home Modifications for Veterans - Homes for Veterans (HFV) modifies the homes of wounded veterans to help their heroes live barrier-free in their own homes. This program provides reconstructive services and accessibility modifications.
South Georgia: Jared Allen's Homes For Wounded Warriors: Accessible Homes for Wounded Veterans - JAH4WW builds and remodels handicap-accessible homes to suit the individual needs of injured United States military Veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Physical injuries often make it challenging for disabled Veterans to comfortably get around in the privacy of their own homes.
South Georgia: Salute: Veteran Financial Assistance Program - Salute offers financial assistance to veterans who are in active duty, injured and/or the transitioning back to civilian life. The program provides financial assistance for rent/mortgage payments, utilities, and other expenses.
South Georgia: Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society: Financial Assistance and Counseling - The Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society provides funds to help active duty or retired Sailors and Marines with a wide range of financial needs including rent/mortgage, utilities, and home repairs.
South Georgia: Operation Homefront: Critical Financial Assistance - Operation Homefront assists military families during difficult financial times by providing food assistance, auto and home repair, vision care, travel and transportation, moving assistance, essential home items, and rent-free transitional housing for wounded veterans and their families.
South Georgia: Military Housing Assistance Fund - The Military Housing Assistance Fund (MHAF) provides gift funds to assist active military and veteran families with purchasing a home.
South Georgia: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs offers VA housing assistance can help Veterans, service members, and their surviving spouses to buy a home or refinance a loan. They also offer benefits and services to help build, improve, or keep your current home.
Coastal Georgia: Homes for Veterans: Home Modifications for Veterans - Homes for Veterans (HFV) modifies the homes of wounded veterans to help their heroes live barrier-free in their own homes. This program provides reconstructive services and accessibility modifications.
Coastal Georgia: Jared Allen's Homes For Wounded Warriors: Accessible Homes for Wounded Veterans - JAH4WW builds and remodels handicap accessible homes to suit the individual needs of injured United States military Veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Physical injuries often make it challenging for disabled Veterans to comfortably get around in the privacy of their own homes.
Coastal Georgia: Operation Finally Home - Operation Finally Home provides custom-built, mortgage free homes and home modifications to America’s military Heroes and the widows of the fallen, those who have worn America’s uniform and sacrificed so much to defend our freedoms and values.
Coastal Georgia: Navy Wounded Warrior: Support Services - Enrollment in the Navy Wounded Warrior is available to service members wounded in combat, as well as to those diagnosed with a serious illness or injured in shipboard, training and liberty accidents. Navy Wounded Warrior coordinates the non-medical care of seriously wounded, ill and injured Sailors and Coast Guardsmen, and provides resources and support to their families. This program provides housing/rental support.
Coastal Georgia: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs offers VA housing assistance can help Veterans, service members, and their surviving spouses to buy a home or refinance a loan. They also offer benefits and services to help build, improve, or keep your current home.
Central Georgia: Salute: Veteran Financial Assistance Program - Salute offers financial assistance to veterans who are in active duty, injured and/or the transitioning back to civilian life. The program provides financial assistance for rent/mortgage payments, utilities, and other expenses.
Central Georgia: Operation Homefront: Critical Financial Assistance - Operation Homefront assists military families during difficult financial times by providing food assistance, auto and home repair, vision care, travel and transportation, moving assistance, essential home items, and rent-free transitional housing for wounded veterans and their families.
Central Georgia: Helping Hands For Freedom: Life Needs Financial Assistance - Helping Hands for Freedom provides emergency financial assistance to Veteran, Military or Gold Star family who have been honorably discharged with at least one child 18 or under in the home.
Central Georgia: Military Housing Assistance Fund - The Military Housing Assistance Fund (MHAF) provides gift funds to assist active military and veteran families with purchasing a home.

Regional Medical Resources

North Georgia and Metro Atlanta: The Pink Fund: Financial Help - The Pink Fund distributes short-term financial aid for basic living expenses on behalf of breast cancer patients who have lost all or a part of their income during active treatment
Guidance Medical: Financial Assistance Funds - Guidance Medical works to assist children with special health care needs and their families by funding daily living costs such as utilities.
Bone Marrow & Cancer Foundation: Lifeline Fund - The Bone Marrow & Cancer Foundation’s Lifeline Fund helps to cover the often overlooked living and ancillary expenses that can present considerable financial obstacles or prohibit the transplant altogether.
Glenn Garcelon Foundation: Financial Assistance for Brain Tumor Patients - The Glenn Garcelon Foundation provides Financial Assistance to those with a primary brain tumor in an effort to ease the financial strain of living with a debilitating medical condition.
Luke Neuhedel Foundation: Assistance for Pediatric Cancer Patients - The program provides financial assistance to cover for rent, home bills, and gas to children currently undergoing and who have undergone treatment for pediatric cancer.
Infinite Strength: Metastatic Breast Cancer Human Needs Grant - Infinite Strength provides financial assistance to underserved single mothers with Metastatic Breast Center (MBC) on a monthly basis for six months.

Regional Elderly Resources

North Georgia: United States Department of Agriculture-Georgia - Single Family Housing Repair Grants - also known as the Section 504 Home Repair program, this program provides grants to elderly, very low-income homeowners to remove health and safety hazards from their homes.
North Georgia: Georgia Division of Aging Services - coordinates with other aging organizations to provide services to appropriately sustain older Georgians in their homes and communities. These services also provide support to family members and caregivers.
Metro Atlanta: United States Department of Agriculture - Georgia - Single Family Housing Repair Grants - also known as the Section 504 Home Repair program, this program provides grants to elderly, very low-income homeowners to remove health and safety hazards from their homes.
Metro Atlanta: Georgia Division of Aging Services - coordinates with other aging organizations to provide services to appropriately sustain older Georgians in their homes and communities. These services also provide support to family members and caregivers.
South Georgia: Coastal Plain Area E.O.A.: Minor Home Repair Program - to help individuals who would not otherwise be able to make repairs to their home.
South Georgia: United States Department of Agriculture - Georgia - Single Family Housing Repair Grants - also known as the Section 504 Home Repair program, this program provides grants to elderly, very low-income homeowners to remove health and safety hazards from their homes.
South Georgia: Georgia Division of Aging Services - coordinates with other aging organizations to provide services to appropriately sustain older Georgians in their homes and communities. These services also provide support to family members and caregivers.
Coastal Georgia: United States Department of Agriculture-Georgia - Single Family Housing Repair Grants - also known as the Section 504 Home Repair program, this program provides grants to elderly, very low-income homeowners to remove health and safety hazards from their homes.
Coastal Georgia: Georgia Division of Aging Services - coordinates with other aging organizations to provide services to appropriately sustain older Georgians in their homes and communities. These services also provide support to family members and caregivers.
Central Georgia: United States Department of Agriculture-Georgia - Single Family Housing Repair Grants - also known as the Section 504 Home Repair program, this program provides grants to elderly, very low-income homeowners to remove health and safety hazards from their homes.
Central Georgia: Georgia Division of Aging Services - coordinates with other aging organizations to provide services to appropriately sustain older Georgians in their homes and communities. These services also provide support to family members and caregivers.

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