How it works
Help that meets you where you are.
Same Ground isn't an intake system. There's no account to create, no form to fill out, and no one deciding whether you qualify. You look, you decide, you reach out when you're ready.
Tell us what you need
Choose a pathway (housing, health, essentials, community) or search in plain words like “counseling,” “rent help,” or “someone to talk to.” Sharing what you need is optional, and in the app it stays on your device.
Explore nearby & community resources
Browse reviewed organizations serving veterans and first responders. Each listing shows who it's for, where it serves, hours, cost, and how to reach it, so you know what to expect before you call.
Take the next step at your pace
Call, open a website, or save something for later. There's no clock and no judgment. If a resource isn't the right fit, come back and try another. Nothing is lost.
What makes it different
Designed to lower the barrier, not raise it.
Browse before you tell us anything
No legal name, documents, or location are required to explore resources. You're never asked to prove your story to see what's available. Even a private account is just a pseudonym and an email. A legal name, ID, or documentation is never requested, and nothing is ever sold.
Reviewed for currency
Listings come from official and organization sources and are checked for accuracy. Where a program is restricted or details need confirming, we say so plainly.
Crisis help is always one tap away
24/7 support lines are reachable from every screen, but the experience is calm by design and never looks like an emergency room. See the crisis lines.
In-app verification is optional
Confirming your service can open peer-only community spaces, but it's your choice and never a requirement to find help. It's also still under construction: no badges are active yet, so use your own judgment with what members tell you about their service in the meantime. Read the privacy approach.
My Table
How My Table works
My Table is the app's private support circle. The same short outline shown in the app:
My Table is your people.
One small, private circle of up to 8 who’ve agreed to show up for one another. You’re part of one table at a time: the one you start, or the one you join.
When you need someone, you open a seat.
The seat is the empty chair at your own table. You never have to find someone else’s table: people come sit with you. Pick what would help: could you talk, could use company, or could use practical help. No explanation required. Nothing leaves your phone until you open the seat.
People take the seat.
Your table sees the seat and anyone there can pull up a chair.
The seat is a private room.
Everyone shows up as their chosen name: no real names, no locations, no profiles. When you close the seat, the room locks, and it’s deleted for good 30 days later.
What My Table is not.
It’s not a crisis line. Confidential 24/7 crisis support is always one tap away and never needs a table, an account, or an explanation. It’s not public, and it’s not therapy. It’s neighbors at a table.
Who's behind this
Who's behind Same Ground
Honestly, it's one person. I'm Ellie. I'm a veteran, this is my community, and I built this because it needed to exist.
I'm not a developer by trade. I built Same Ground because everything I ever went looking for was either impossible to find or took so long to turn up that I'd stopped caring by the time I found it. I didn't think I was special in that. So this is for anyone who's ever needed help and couldn't find it on their own, or heard about it by word of mouth just a little too late.
There's no company behind it, no investors, no ads, and nothing for sale. That isn't a mission statement, it's the plumbing: it's free and private because there's nobody it has to make money for, and I never built the machinery to collect or sell anything about you.
For now I'm also the one who reviews safety reports, which is why the peer side stays small on purpose. It grows when I can bring on a few safety reviewers to watch it properly, not before.
And if you use this once, find exactly what you need, and never come back, that's it working exactly the way I want it to.
What “reviewed” means
How listings are reviewed
Every listing is checked against the organization’s own official source before it publishes, then re-checked on a schedule. If one can’t be re-verified, it comes down rather than sit here stale. “Reviewed” means confirmed to exist and be current. It isn’t an endorsement.