VA Volunteers

Make this holiday season a little brighter for Veterans in your town. Join in the GIVING TUESDAY activities tomorrow to remind our hospitalized Veterans that we have not forgotten their service.

Patients at Orlando VA Medical Center can escape hospital routine with the therapeutic activity box, or TAB, which offers relaxing activities and materials from puzzles to coloring books.

During her time as a volunteer harpist at VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Danielle Nam has grown as a musician and a person. She says “thank you and goodbye” to Veterans, families and staff.

Army Veteran and licensed massage therapist Terry Smith volunteers the expert touch of her healing hands to residents of the Columbia VA Health Care System Community Living Center.

WWII Veteran, Helen Glass, has been serving Veterans for most of her life, starting by volunteering with her WWI Veteran father, and continuing today.

VA Texas Valley Coastal Bend Health Care System (VCB) hosted the first ever Veterans Whole Health Summit & Benefits Fair in June.

Volunteering at VA is a family tradition for Jacqueline Reeves; her grandmother and great-grandmother have volunteered for more than two decades, and all three can routinely be found at VA on the same day.

The Red Coat Ambassador program is well-received by Veterans and their families, a partnership with the American Legion Auxiliary to help in the recruitment of volunteers for this program will be key to its continued success.

Veteran and VA Voluntary Chief Bill Browning discusses the motivation behind the successful volunteer program he oversees in Detroit, "My time spent in the military was rewarding, I never thought I'd come back to VA, but the care I received there was such a motivation and it really changed my life, saved my life."

Five days after the lab he volunteered at was renamed in his honor, Bill passed peacefully with his second family at the Marion VA Medical Center.

Musicians on Call volunteer musicians visit Rocky Mountain Regional every Tuesday evening to perform bedside concerts for Veteran patients. R

HARLINGEN, Texas — Veterans enrolled in the VA health care system […]