Organization

TRANScending Barriers Atlanta, Inc.

Atlanta, GA
Mission

To empower the transgender and gender non-conforming community in Georgia through community organizing, leadership building, advocacy, and direct services so that lives can be changed and a community uplifted.

  • Website: http://www.transcendingbarriersatl.org
  • Email: z.green@transcendingbarriersatl.org
  • Phone: 770-970-0810
  • Principal Officer: Zahara Green
  • EIN
    EIN: 821544547
  • Organization Description:

    TRANScending Barriers is a trans-led 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that serves the transgender and gender non-conforming community in Georgia. We believe in the inclusion of those who are directly impacted because those who are closest to the problem are closest to the solution.

  • Date of Last CCF Site Visit:

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TRANScending Barriers Atlanta, Inc.
1755 The Exchange, Suite 240
Atlanta, GA 30339
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Our TRANS Peer Empowerment Group meetings are held in LGBTQ+ safe and friendly space to holistically uplift, deter and help with prevention in keeping members of our community from becoming incarcerated due to sex work, survival crimes, and drug abuse. The TRANS Peer Empowerment group is designed to lower the rate of survival crimes and reduce new cases of HIV that have devastated the trans community over the last decade. Through building self-esteem and solidarity, connecting people to resources, eliminating self-doubt, diminishing shame for being in the trans-body, and promoting social interaction in a non-judgmental safe space we make a can make a difference, and so we have. The TRANS Peer Empowerment group is important because without programs like this in our community we won't see a difference. When we uplift one another, the possibilities are endless.

We provide resources for; trauma and drug recovery, safe housing, continued education, and job readiness training. Our Re-entry services begin prior to release. It helps the recipients in our program(s) transition back into society at a healthy pace with the assistance of these partnering organizations as well as our volunteers.