Welcome from our Executive DirectorWelcome to the website of Helping Hands Community Based Services. We hope you’ll find this site a useful tool. Please know that we welcome your comments towards making it even better. We have provided state-of-the-art prevention, treatment and support services for children, youth, families and adults who experience mental illness, addiction, co-occurring disorders or developmental disabilities. Helping Hands is an outpatient provider of behavioral health services. We accept Medicaid, Medicare, Private Insurance and Self-Pay clients. Our agency provides mental health and addictive disease treatment to individuals in the south Fulton, Clayton, Dekalb, Fayette and all other surrounding Metro-Atlanta counties. We are a community based service agency that addresses individuals, their families, and community through a holistic approach with over a combined 30 years of clinical experience.
We are a State of Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities and the Department of Community Health authorized contractor of CORE services.We are also a preferred provider of the Fulton County Juvenile Drug Court.Our agency is conveniently located on a Marta bus route and near the College Park rail station. Bus 89 and bus 189 are the Marta transportation to utilize when getting to the agency through public transportation, or we encourage individuals with Medicaid to utilize Southeastern Transportation Services at (404) 209-4000. We are located at 5524 Old National Highway, Suite B, College Park, GA 30349, in the (Harriston Square) office complex. We are open Monday thru Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. The office is closed on Fridays as well as all state and federal observed holidays.Our agency is accredited through the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).
We are members of the Old National Highway Merchants Association, Better Business Bureau and we have partnered with many community organizations to better serve the people.
Our mission is to assist individuals with emotional and behavioral challenges, including mental health and addictive diseases. We are a supportive team that provides professional guidance in giving individuals the opportunity to make positive changes in their lives and reinforce individuals to be compliant with their treatment while in the community.
The goal of all services is to develop service plans in full partnership with consumers and families. The services and treatments at the agency are consumer and family centered, and geared to give consumers real and meaningful choices about service options. The goal of all services is the recovery of the individual. We will focus on helping the individual to obtain a meaningful life in the community through recovery, employment, and stable housing.
These outcomes will be measured in the following manner: Increased Stability in Housing, Engaging the Homeless, Decreased Criminal Justice Involvement, and Reduced Utilization of Psychiatric Inpatient Beds.
