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How can you
request PAD?
Dial 311, follow the prompts to request PAD for issues of community concern, including extreme poverty, substance use, and mental health distress.
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Programs & Services
PAD’s programs include community crisis response, care navigation and case management for individuals involved with the legal system, and community engagement focused on advancing alternatives to traditional policing.
Community Response
Food • Water • Hygiene supplies • Referrals to social services • Transportation
PAD Community Response serves thousands of Atlantans with unmet needs every year, providing immediate aid like food, water, hygiene supplies, referral to social services, and needed transportation.
Care
Navigation
Case management • Legal assistance • Reconnection with family • Mental and behavioral health assistance
PAD offers case management to people who have been diverted by law enforcement along with anyone referred to PAD with open court cases in the City of Atlanta or Fulton County. PAD Care Navigation currently provides case management to over 300 enrolled participants.
Community Engagement
Trainings • Tabling • Volunteer program • Outreach with partner organizations
Through engaging with hundreds of local businesses, community and faith-based organizations, as well as conducting trainings and hosting a regular volunteer program, PAD Community Engagement equips Atlantans to respond to crises with care and move away from carceral responses.
"I called PAD to help a man who was sleeping on the street. It wasn’t even 30 minutes before they came and gave him food and clothing and talked to him about resources he could use."
– Testimonial from a Community Member.
