Veterans Services

There are a number of challenges for veterans after leaving the military. Among these are mental health, physical disabilities, housing insecurity, and access to health coverage, just to name a few. This guide provides resources to veterans’ rights groups, Veteran Service Organizations, and individual veterans and caregivers to obtain access to financial resources, career search and skills building opportunities, secure housing, and healthcare assistance.

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Legislative Committees

House Committee on Defense and Veterans Affairs

This committee handles legislation and oversight related to Georgia’s Department of Defense, military personnel, and organizations providing service to military
veterans.

Senate Committee on Veterans, Military, and Homeland Security

This committee has general jurisdiction over legislation related to Georgia’s Department of Defense, military personnel, Department of Homeland Security, emergency response organizations, and organizations providing services to military veterans.

View Veterans Services Organizations:

International

National

Statewide

View Organizations by region:

Metro Atlanta

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International

Fisher House Foundation
The Fisher House Foundation is located at military and VA medical centers around the world and builds comfort homes for military and veteran families to stay in free of charge while a loved one is in the hospital.

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National

American Legion
Helps veterans and their families through financial assistance, service centers and recreational activities.

AMVETS (American Veterans)
Seeks to improve the lives of veterans, their families, and communities by offering help in filing VA claims, healthcare advocacy, career centers, scholarships, reintegration programs, and education.

Blinded Veterans Association
Serves as ambassadors and mentors for veterans their families coping with sight loss.

Creativets
Empowers wounded veterans to heal through the arts and music. It offers a songwriting program and visual arts program.

Disabled American Veterans
Provides support for veterans of all generations and their families.

Disabled Veteran Empowerment Network
Donates money to organizations helping veterans and provides educational resources.

Folds of Honor
Provides scholarships to the spouses and children of America’s fallen and disabled service members.

Hope for the Warriors
Dedicated to helping servicemembers and their families by providing clinical health & wellness, transition services, and sports and recreation.

Military Benefit Foundation
Helps military families through veteran suicide prevention, assistance of families of veteran suicides, and veteran employment assistance.

Operation Home Front
Helps military families by providing financial relief, transitional housing, permanent mortgage-free housing, caregiver support services, and recurring family support programs.

Operation First Response
Serves military and first responder families by providing emergency financial needs.

Paralyzed Veterans of America
Donates money to paralyzed veterans, provides education on travel with passengers with disabilities, advocates for veterans, and provides a research grant.

Salute Heroes
Helps severely wounded veterans and their families recover from injuries and illnesses by providing financial support, meals, and gifts.

Salute, Inc.
Provides financial and emotional support to servicemembers and their families.

Still Serving Veterans
Serves and honors veterans and their families by empowering them to build careers and use benefits and services.

USA Cares
Provides post-9/11 military veterans, servicemembers, and their families with financial assistance and post service training to create foundations for long-term stability and avoid veteran suicide.

Veterans Educational Success
This organization of bipartisan policy experts, academic researchers, lawyers, and advocates bridge the military-civilian divide to ensure career and education success for military families by providing free help for veterans and military-connected students, research and reports, policy advocacy and legal advocacy.

Veterans of Foreign Wars
Advocates for, fosters camaraderie among and provides resources for veterans.

Warriors Heart Foundation
Supports programs addressing the unmet needs of servicemen and women suffering from overcoming addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder, mild traumatic brain injury, and suicidal thoughts.

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Statewide

Georgia Department of Veterans Services
Counsels, advises, and assists Georgia’s veterans and their families to receive the benefits they are entitled to under veteran’s laws.

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Metro Atlanta

Catholic Charities Atlanta: Veterans Support Services
This organization helps veterans and their families navigate public and VA benefits, provides financial literacy workshops and education planning, and offers mental health counseling.

Georgia Tech – Veterans Services
Part of the Registrar’s Office at Georgia Tech, this division serves as a liaison between Georgia Tech veteran students and Veteran Affairs. Their primary purpose is assisting veteran students with processing forms for educational benefits, educating them on procedural requirements, and certifying the enrollment of veteran students with Veteran Affairs.

VA Atlanta Health Care
Provides patient-centered healthcare via an array of comprehensive medical, surgical, and geriatric specialty services.

Veterans Benefits Administration – Atlanta Regional Office
Offers services from American Legion, AMVETS, Blinded Veterans Association, Disabled American Veterans, Georgia Department of Veterans Services, Paralyzed Veterans of America, and Veterans of Foreign Wars.

VA Atlanta Health Care
Provides patient-centered healthcare via an array of comprehensive medical, surgical, and geriatric specialty services.