September 9 • Atlanta — Careers, business ownership, providers & technologyEvent details →
Community 1st at Career Connections

Your next move in care starts here.

Whether you want to find work, build a care business, or grow an organization with smarter systems, Community 1st is turning September 9 into a place to discover a useful next step — in person or online.

Find my best path →
📅 Wed, Sept 9 • 10 AM–4 PM📍 Atlanta Metropolitan State College
See what we're building for September 9
ONLINE EXPERIENCE READY
50-second overviewCareers • Ownership • Technology • Provider Connections
Community 1st Opportunity Concierge

What brings you here?

Choose one answer. We’ll point you to the most useful part of the experience instead of making you hunt through the page.

Smart routingOne choice → your next best step
YOUR ROUTEChoose a path above

We’ll personalize the next step and take you directly to the right experience.

One event. Multiple paths. One intelligent follow-up system.
CareersCandidate intake & next steps
OwnershipGeorgia care-business pathways
OrganizationsTime, workflow & growth opportunities
Choose your path

Different goals deserve different experiences.

Skip the generic sign-up form. Tell us what you want to accomplish and use the experience built for that goal.

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I’m looking for work

Turn your experience, availability and goals into a clearer next step.

  • Care-career opportunity profile
  • Interview preparation
  • Résumé talking points
  • Staffing and follow-up pathway
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I want to build a care business

Clarify what you want to establish and where you are in the journey.

  • Personal care & residential pathways
  • Home health exploration
  • Medicaid-related goals captured
  • Private next-step options
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I already run an organization

Find repetitive work that may be costing your team time, capacity and money.

  • Time & Profit Opportunity Scan
  • Recruiting and intake workflows
  • Follow-up and document systems
  • Owner visibility and reporting
Interactive Opportunity Lab

Don’t just read about it. Try it.

These interactive tools demonstrate the experience Community 1st is bringing to September 9. Results are educational starting points—not licensing, funding, employment or regulatory decisions.

No disability or medical disclosure is required.
Your result will appear here
A useful next step in under a minute.
Tell us about your experience and work preferences. The tool will suggest directions to explore and interview talking points.
Actual scope depends on the specific business and applicable requirements.
Care Business Readiness
Start with clarity, not paperwork.
Your answers will generate a preliminary starting point and identify questions a human expert may need to review.
This estimates labor tied to the workflow—not guaranteed savings.
Time & Profit Opportunity
Put a number on repetitive work.
Enter how many people touch the task, how many hours it consumes and an approximate loaded labor cost.
Technology preview

See residential availability differently.

HomeMatch demonstrates a more useful question than “who is on a provider list?” — who may actually have an appropriate opening now?

At the event, Community 1st can demonstrate visual provider profiles, availability freshness, intelligent search and inquiry routing. Production availability would be based on provider-confirmed information and appropriate human processes.

HomeMatch
Residential Placement Intelligence
DEMO MODE
Residential profile
Atlanta area • Accessibility details
Profile found
Availability channel
Provider confirmation workflow
Ready
1 Search
2 Check
3 Confirm
4 Route
> Ready to demonstrate availability workflow.
Employers • Agencies • Organizations

If you run an organization, we want to meet you too.

The September 9 opportunity is bigger than recruiting. Community 1st is also looking for employers, providers, resource organizations and partners where better systems can save time or create shared opportunity.

What could smarter systems take off your team?

Explore workflow opportunities around repetitive work that consumes staff capacity.

RecruitingIntakeFollow-upSchedulingDocumentsReportingCustomer questionsOwner visibility

Attending September 9?

Tell us what kind of organization you represent and what you would like to explore. We can prepare a more useful conversation before the event.

Lead capture can be connected to Community 1st’s preferred CRM or form endpoint before public launch.

September 9, 2026

Meet Community 1st in Atlanta.

The Career Connections and Resource Fair welcomes people seeking employment, career exploration and resources. Community 1st will use its two-table presence to create distinct career, business and organization experiences.

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Career Connections and Resource Fair

10:00 AM–4:00 PM
Atlanta Metropolitan State College
1630 Metropolitan Pkwy SW, Atlanta, GA 30310

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The online experience is already open. You do not have to wait until September 9 to choose your path.
Beyond the event

Georgia care careers, business ownership and smarter operations.

September 9 is a launch point. The Community 1st online experience is designed to remain useful for people across Georgia before and after the Atlanta event.

Exploring a Georgia care career?

Care and support organizations need people with different strengths: direct service, administration, scheduling, recruiting, operations and leadership. Community 1st’s career path helps visitors organize their experience and identify a useful next step.

Thinking about starting a care business in Georgia?

Personal care, residential care, group-home and home-health pathways can involve different requirements and business decisions. The readiness experience helps prospective owners clarify what they are trying to establish before moving deeper into paid support.

Already operate a care business?

Existing providers often spend valuable staff time on recruiting, intake, follow-up, documents, customer questions and reporting. The Time & Profit Scan helps owners identify repetitive workflows that may deserve a more efficient system.

Provider or community organization?

Community 1st is building relationships around staffing, provider visibility, HomeMatch, business technology and strategic collaboration. Organizations attending September 9 can use this page as a starting point before meeting the team.

Common questions

Before you visit.

Who should stop by Community 1st?

Job seekers, aspiring care-business owners, existing providers, employers, agencies, resource organizations and potential strategic partners can all choose a relevant path.

Can I use the online experience if I cannot attend September 9?

Yes. The page is designed to remain useful before and after the event so people across Georgia can explore a starting point online.

Does the care-business tool guarantee approval?

No. It is an educational readiness experience. Licensing, regulatory, Medicaid/funding and other official decisions remain with the applicable authorities.

Is Community 1st the organizer of the event?

No. The Career Connections and Resource Fair is organized by the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency. Community 1st is participating as an exhibitor.