To learn more about how to get involved with Exhale, visit their website or call (510) 446-7900. If you are seeking counseling, call the talkline at 1-866-4EXHALE.

Hear from a Volunteer

When Ragnar Anderson moved to San Francisco in the fall of 2004, her first involvement with Exhale was as a marketing and communications volunteer. A year later she decided she wanted to volunteer for the talkline as well.

Anderson went through 48 hours of training before becoming a counselor. At one training session, a panel of women from various backgrounds spoke about their experiences with abortion. It was an encounter that touched Anderson deeply. "Seeing someone who looks like me, [who] I could've gone to school with, [who] was my age… To hear her emotional story really struck me," she says.

With abortion being such a hot-button topic, Anderson finds strength in the fact that Exhale does not jump to either side of the abortion debate.