Legal and Peer Support Helpline

We’re Ready to Listen: SWAN’s Legal and Peer Support Helpline

Contact the Legal and Peer Support Helpline

What to expect:

  • Please leave a message with your name and phone number; a caseworker will respond between 10am and 6pm EST Monday through Friday. Messages left on weekends or federal bank holidays will be addressed the following business day. If you are experiencing an emergency, please call 911.
  • This call will include a brief set of questions about your background, current situation and needs. Your information will be kept confidential.
  • Work with the caseworker to identify your concerns and priorities, while deciding on healthy next steps.
  • Most importantly, the call is at your own pace, within your comfort level. Your safety and well-being are our primary concerns.

Who will I be speaking with?

Caseworkers are your peers who have experienced military cultural firsthand – from a woman’s perspective. Knowledgeable in connecting you to a variety of helpful resources and supportive services, they are trained to work with you to identify your needs and healthy next steps.

Benefits of the helpline:

  • No one should have to struggle alone – use the helpline as a source of support.
  • Get connected to free legal, mental health, or other supportive services.
  • Join a growing community of servicewomen and women veterans who share your experience.
  • Get more information about how SWAN is addressing the challenges facing servicewomen and women veterans – and how you can be an active part of these initiatives.

Veterans Legal Services and Peer Support Helpline

1-888-729-2089

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If you’re looking for the LGBT Women in the Military support helpline, it has recently been combined with our main number.

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Resources

National Resource Directory
Connecting Wounded Warriors, service members, veterans and their families with those who support them.

Support Services:

National Domestic Violence Hotline
1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
The National Domestic Violence Hotline creates access by providing 24-hour support through advocacy, safety planning, resources and hope to everyone affected by domestic violence.

The Soldier’s Project
1-877-576-5343
A group of licensed mental health professionals who offer free, confidential, psychological treatment to military service members (active, National Guard, reserves, and veterans) who have served or are expecting to serve in Iraq or Afghanistan.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
1-800-273-8255
A 24-hour, toll-free, confidential suicide prevention hotline available to anyone in suicidal crisis or emotional distress. For veteran-specific services, Press 1 or go to their veteran’s page.

Therapist Finder
Returning soldiers can find free counseling for themselves and their families.

RAINN: Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network
1-800-656-HOPE (4673)
24/7 services for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. You can contact via phone or the internet hotline.

Legal:

National Organization of Veteran’s Advocates
Provides legal assistance for veterans regarding their VA claims.

GI Rights Hotline
1-877-447-4487
Network of over 20 organizations providing servicemembers and veterans non-directive counseling on discharges, military regulations, discrimination, sexual assault and harassment complaint procedures, filing grievances, political activity and similar issues.

Servicemembers Legal Defense Network
202-328-3244 or 1-800-538-7418
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network is a non-partisan, non-profit, legal services, watchdog and policy organization dedicated to ending discrimination against and harassment of military personnel affected by “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT). They work to end DADT, to ensure parity for LGBT service members, and to provide free, confidential legal services to all those impacted by DADT and related discrimination.

Swords to Plowshares
415-252-4788
Organization whose attorneys provide brief advice and representation to qualifying veterans and their family members. Veterans must be San Francisco residents or have served on active duty since September 11, 2001.

Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program
202-628-8164 or 1-888-838-7727
Cooperative program of four national veterans service organizations (American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, National Veterans Legal Services Program, and Paralyzed Veterans of America) providing free attorneys to veterans and their qualifying family members who have an appeal pending at the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.