Free Counseling for Military Families across U.S.

Give an Hour relies on its volunteer mental health professionals to provide free counseling to military service members, veterans and their families. Since its founding in 2005, GAH has recruited licensed mental health professionals and now has more than 6700 enrolled. Our goal is to have one tenth of the 400,000 licensed...

“Thank you for your website. Please keep it going. I used it to find a counselor and it has made a huge difference.” A service member said this to two staff members as we were handing out information about Give an Hour at Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda, MD recently. We were gratified to hear these warm...

In order to track how our efforts are doing in providing free mental health care to military service men and women and their families, Give an Hour conducts surveys every three months, asking our volunteer mental health professionals to let us know how many hours they have contributed. We are excited to report an increase...

Give an Hour™ now has over 6,300 mental health professionals enrolled as volunteers, ready to give an hour a week in free confidential counseling to military family members in their communities. Every provider who volunteers allows GAH to reach more communities and more people in need, such as the military spouse who...

Here are reports from two of Give an Hour's volunteers, who provide free counseling through GAH's program to members of military families who seek help. We are so grateful to these and their fellow volunteers who with our donors make Give an Hour's work possible. Tiffany explains: “One lesson I learned was that mental...

Based on responses to Give an Hour's recently conducted quarterly survey of our wonderful volunteer mental health providers, they have provided over 3,000 hours of counseling since August, 2011. Give an Hour is grateful to its volunteers who give their professional services to our country's military veterans and their loved...

Since posting the project description at GlobalGiving, Give an Hour’s volunteer mental health providers have increased in number from 5,500 to almost 6,000. Give an Hour is effective due to the simplicity and speed by which free counseling services can be provided to a particularly needy population that is spread...