Counseling

The American Red Cross offers confidential services to all military personnel and their families — active duty, National Guard and Reserves. Counseling, guidance, information, referrals and other social services are available through our worldwide network of chapters and offices on military installations. In Portage County contact Armed Forces Services at 715-344-4052. Other Red Cross chapters are listed in local telephone books and on the American Red Cross Web site at http://www.redcross.org/where/where.html.

As more and more National Guard and Reserve units are called to full time duty status, counseling is becoming increasingly important to prepare the Guardsman and Reservists and their family members for the period of activation. Because members of the National Guard and Reserve typically live in civilian neighborhoods, they and their families frequently have difficulty accessing much-needed, military-related social services.