Randy Phelps, Ph.D., has been named by the Give an Hour (GAH) board of directors as GAH's new CEO. Phelps became GAH's first vice president of operations in 2018 after serving on the Give an Hour advisory board for over a decade and working as a formal consultant to the GAH board of directors in 2017. He has also received an American Psychological Association Presidential Citation for his national contributions to professional psychology. Phelps will replace Barbara Van Dahlen, Ph.D., who founded Give an Hour in 2005. Since that time, the organization has served those in need through a volunteer network of nearly 7,000 licensed mental health professionals in every state of the United States, who have donated more than 284,000 hours of care, worth more than $28 million. Phelps assumed his new role on July 22, as Van Dahlen assumes the helm of the White House PREVENTS Task Force to end veteran suicide.
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