This past March, two teachers in California created a hotline, PepToc, for anyone in their small town in need of a mental health lift. A call into the number features messages from elementary school kids. It hit a milestone of 2.2 million calls this week.
Nov. 14, 2022 -- When two art teachers in Healdsburg, CA, set out to create a hotline for anyone in their small wine country town in need of a mental health lift this past March, they had no idea that their phone line, which features the voices of some of the kids in their elementary school, would end up hitting a milestone of 2.2 million calls from people in the U.S. and around the world.
Martin's collaborator, Asherah Weiss, 35, also an art educator, says it's the spontaneity of the kids' words that seems to be connecting with callers. “We'll get messages from people who are suffering from severe depression and anxiety who tell us that this hotline was literally a lifeline for them,” Martin says. “Another letter came from a group of nurses from Kentucky who told us that calling the hotline brought such light and joy to them during a tough day at the hospital they work at. It's very moving to hear this.”
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