About Give an Hour

Give an Hour is a national nonprofit organization, founded in September 2005 by Dr. Barbara Van Dahlen, a psychologist in the Washington, D.C., area to provide free mental health services to military personnel, veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, their loved ones, and their communities. The Give an Hour network includes nearly 7,000 licensed mental health professionals as well as colleagues from the military, government, corporate, educational, and nonprofit worlds.

We are proud of the more than 170,000 hours of free counseling our providers have donated, valued at over $17 million, and of our newest initiative to change how our society thinks about and addresses mental health and wellness, the Campaign to Change Direction (www.changedirection.org), which launched on March 4th with a keynote speech by First Lady Michelle Obama.

For information about the Give an Hour and Brian Wilson partnership on the Campaign to Change Direction visit www.ChangeDirection.org/Brian-Wilson