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Provides training for potential foster parents and places children in homes that best meet their needs. Services for foster parents include ongoing training and development, 24-hour staff support, financial reimbursement, support groups, and respite care for personal time.

Helps families secure safe and affordable housing to prevent the placement of children in care or support their return home.

Provides a dedicated caseworker who assists with referrals to emergency or domestic violence shelters, apartment searches, transportation to view units or meet landlords, and preparation for housing interviews.

Caseworkers also help families apply for income assistance, access community resources for basic needs, obtain subsidized housing such as Section 8, and offer follow-up services to prevent future housing instability.

Provides services that are critical to consumers who rely on personal assistants (PA's) to do the chores that they are unable to do for themselves, in order to maintain their community living status.

Helpline offers a gambling assessment.  Provides individualized treatment plans for those struggling with a gambling problem. The intensity of treatment, the length of treatment, and the goals to be achieved are based on individual client need and agreement.  

Offers rent and utility assistance when funds are available. May also help with household goods, clothing, and eyeglasses.

Food pantry, providing shelf-stable pantry items.  In addition, each location offers a variety of breads and treats from local bakeries.

Provides a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA). A CASA volunteer is a trained community member who is appointed by the Juvenile Court Judge to represent the best interests of abused and neglected children who are brought before the court. A volunteer has three main roles

- To serve as fact finder for the judge (by handling only one or two cases, the volunteer has time to thoroughly explore the history of each case).

- To speak for the child in the courtroom, advocating for the child’s best interests.

- To act as a “watchdog” for the child during the life of the case, ensuring that the case is brought to a swift and appropriate conclusion.

Offers home health care and hospice services. Care may include:

• Regular visits to patient's home to provide care.

  - Coordinate services needed from other healthcare providers, including doctors, therapists, social workers and nurse aides.

• Keeps family and primary care physician informed about progress and care plan.

  VNA will also answer questions about hospice care or end-of-life questions, even if a patient is not ready for hospice care at this time. Topics include:

• Advance directives.

• End-of-life issues.

• Making plans to provide care for a loved one with a terminal illness.

• Grief and loss issues.

• Understanding palliative care vs. curative treatment.

Provides the police department serving residents of Athens.

Offers gently used and new items that are bargains for shoppers. Items offered include jeans, business attire, infant and children's clothing, housewares, linens, furniture, and more. All proceeds go to fund the programs provided by Goodwill.

Accepts gently used and new clothing and other household items as donations.

Provides literacy workshops and distributes reading materials. Partners with Silver Cross to provide reading rooms and lending libraries.

Provides financial support to families who are looking for child care.

Offers residential treatment programs for adults with substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders. Programs serve men and women, women with children, young adults, veterans, and essential and frontline workers. Also offers medically monitored detox and withdrawal management.

Sober living recovery homes and halfway houses provide wraparound support for individuals in early recovery. Also offers supportive housing for individuals living with mental health disorders.

Adult outpatient services include therapy, specialty care such as TMS therapy and MAT, family support and education, psychiatric care, intensive community-based case management, and fulfillment of legal behavioral healthcare requirements related to court systems.

Works to reduce the incidents of child sexual abuse through public awareness and education. The ads are a "call to action" encouraging adults to call or go online for free materials that educate adults to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. HELPLINE is a national toll-free number for community based referrals that will immediately route callers to an information and referral service representative, who can provide referrals to sexual abuse resources in the local community. PARENT EDUCATION & GUIDANCE through community partnerships. STEWARDS OF CHILDREN is a sexual abuse prevention training program that provides front-line training for organizations and corporations that serve children and youth. INFO and PRODUCTS including 5 Steps booklets, Rack cards, Risk Management Essentials and much more. WEBSITE features recent articles on child sexual abuse, book suggestions, mandatory reporting laws, a Darkness to Light sponsored internet radio talk show and access to educational materials.

Helpline providing information and support to LGBTQ youth.

Offers women’s health services to support women through every stage of life. Services include annual wellness exams, breast exams, pap smears, pregnancy care, reproductive health and birth control, menopause care, on-site ultrasounds, and routine tests and screenings.

Mental health services include:

-- Child, adolescent, and adult services

-- Medication management

-- Diagnostic evaluations and assessments for Attention deficits, Hyperactivity, Depression, Bipolar disorder, Psychosis

-- School-related problems

-- Telepsychiatry

-- Individual, group, and family counseling

Provides a community college serving local residents.

Provides financial and support services to Veteran families. The program is a housing stability-focused service delivery program that serves veteran families that are homeless or imminently at-risk of being homeless. The goal is to stabilize these families in housing, while providing on-going support as needed to sustain independent living.

Services may include:

• Rental and utility deposits
• Limited rental and utility assistance
• Limited moving costs and emergency supplies
• Case management services
• Transportation assistance
• Information and referrals to community resources
• Assistance in obtaining VA benefits
• Assistance in obtaining and securing other public benefits
• Assistance in securing permanent housing.

Offers intensive outpatient programs providing treatment and care for individuals who have issues with substance use. Offers more structure and support than traditional outpatient therapy. Consists of day programs that allow individuals to return home after treatment each day.