Pep talk: Children's telephone hotline goes viral
In need of some encouragement? Students at West Side Union Grade School, in Healdsburg, Calif., are providing just that in recorded messages on a free telephone hotline, Peptoc. The art project, the brainchild of teachers Asherah Weiss and Jessica Martin, has gone viral, getting up to 9,000 calls per hour. Correspondent Steve Hartman talked with the teachers, and with some of the students whose unscripted, motivational gems are being shared. Need some inspiration? Call the Peptoc Hotline: (707) 998-8410.
PepToc - Advice from West Side School
Students at West Side School in Healdsburg have created PepToc, a hotline with sage advice and sound solutions for life's hurdles.
Peptoc Hotline features pre-recorded life advice and encouraging messages from the students at West Side Elementary, a K-6th public school in rural Healdsburg, California.
https://www.peptoc.net/hotline
Dial 707-8PEPTOC (707-873-7862) to hear the kindergarten through 6th grade students from West Side Elementary in Healdsburg, California, share advice on how to grapple with anger, frustration, anxiety or simply for a mood boost.
Need a pep talk? Call this number and you’ll get one for free from some very cute kids
The hotline run gives wisdom ranging from encouraging frustrated people to punch pillows to telling listeners that "rainbows are jealous of them."
https://www.today.com/parents/cute/peptoc-hotline-allows-kids-offer-advice-comfort-others-rcna56426
A Pep Talk from Kid President to You
We all need a little encouragement every now and then. Kid President, knowing this, has put together a video you can play each morning as you wake up or to share with your friend who needs a kick in the right direction. Take a moment and spread some encouragement. "It's everybody's duty to give the world a reason to dance."
TED Talk: Kid President – I think we all need a pep talk
https://sites.psu.edu/toptedtalks/2017/02/24/ted-talk-kid-president-i-think-we-all-need-a-pep-talk/
Video from Pubity at https://www.tiktok.com/@pubity
EVERY senior community needs an inoperable car with working radio in their parking lot. That way the senior can sit in it rocking out for the memories. For some that might be the only joy they have in life, especially if their families have taken them to senior communities or nursing homes and rarely, if ever, visit.
We think ALL HUD housing needs Solar. Just think of all the money they'd save the government!
Susan Auslander, age 89, Spearheaded a Solar-Energy Drive in Connecticut and it worked!
An octogenarian Hunter College alumna has spearheaded a successful drive to install solar panels throughout her Connecticut retirement community — and she’s just getting started.
(This was not for low income housing, but it could be.)
CLICK HERE TO READ WHAT SHE DID
Her Retirement Home Said ‘No’ to Solar Panels. She Got It to Buy 1,344.
In what seemed like a futile fight with her retirement community’s management, Susan Auslander, just shy of 90, found an opening.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT WHAT Susan Auslander did
Things my mom did when she lived in MN before she came back home to Colorado (Click news article name to read more.)
Got a bus stop at the library
and
Marshall woman petitions to have bus stop at library
Helped turn ALL HUD housing into non-smoking
Another game-changer in the works to eliminate smoking
and
HUD SECRETARY CASTRO ANNOUNCES PUBLIC HOUSING TO BE SMOKE-FREE
New rule protects health and safety of residents, saves PHAs millions of dollars in preventable damage
Nov 30, 2016
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), HUD's national smoke-free policy will save public housing agencies $153 million every year in repairs and preventable fires, including $94 million in secondhand smoke-related health care, $43 million in renovation of smoking-permitted units, and $16
https://archives.hud.gov/news/2016/pr16-184.cfm#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20Centers%20for,smoking%2Dpermitted%20units%2C%20and%20%2416
(Just think of how much it would save our government to add solar to HUD/low income housing!)
How To Use The Internet To Pay For Your Dental Bills
This is how mom got the funds to finance some of her dental work 8 years ago
(THE LINKS THEY TALK ABOUT FOR MOM ARE NO LONGER VALID - THIS WAS FILMED 8 YEARS AGO)
This is mom's interview on a National podcast. She was also interviewed by NBC National News about the harassment and stalking she's endured in 1994. It's off-and-on to this day, December 13, 2023.
