Welcome from our Executive Director

Welcome 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 toward 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 diseases 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 address’s 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. Fulton County Juvenile Drug Court preferred provider.

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 Southeastrans 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. and Friday’s 9:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. Our office is closed on 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 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 consumer’s real and meaningful choices about service options. The goal of all services is the recovery of the individual. We will focus on recovery, employment, housing and the individual having a meaningful life in the community.

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.

We hope to hear from you soon!

Warm regards,

Diane Boulai

Executive Director