Four and a half years ago, I was new in town looking for a job and opportunities to network and build experience. A phone call inquiring about volunteer opportunities led me to HeartLine. HeartLine is an non-profit that services the entire state of Oklahoma doing a lot of different and valuable services including suicide prevention and awareness training, 211, and their 1-800 CareLine.
- HeartLine€™s 2-1-1 service provides Central Oklahomans 24/7 access to information on any type of health or human service, and this easy-to-remember telephone number is the best first place to call to get help, or give help.
- HeartLine€™s CareLine Call Specialists are available 24-hours a day, every day of the year, offering compassionate listening, crisis intervention and suicide prevention. 848-2273 (CARE)serves Central Oklahoma.
- HeartLine€™s Suicide Awareness and Prevention Programs target two separate populations – one that serves youth and one that helps the elderly:
- HeartLine’s Problem Gambling Helpline is the result of a partnership with the Oklahoma Association for Problem & Compulsive Gambling. The 1-800-522-4700 Problem Gambling Helpline provides problem gamblers and family of problem gamblers throughout the state of Oklahoma information about treatment and hope for overcoming their addiction.
Every year HeartLine’s fundraising event is the Festival of Hope Gala, and this year’s event is Friday, August 13, 2010, at the Cowboy Hall of Fame Museum in Oklahoma City, OK. In addition to recognizing some amazing folks including Tom & Lisa Price, Santa’s Cause, and Larry Hawkins, they host an annual silent and live auction to benefit their organization. This year is special for me because I am the Auction Chair. We have a number of amazing trips, weekend get-a-ways, and auction items that will appeal to each and every attendee. One in particular that I am very excited about is a Hermes Birkin Bag and Wallet combination valued at more than $10,000. It is the single largest auction donation item in the history of HeartLine and was donated by a very special friend of mine, Ties to Tattoos„¢ author, Sherri Elliott-Yeary. (Thanks, Sherri!)
The Birkin will be part of the live auction and you are certainly invited to get in on the Birkin bidding auction. Tickets to the Festival of Hope are still available on HeartLine’s website for $125 a person or $1,000 a table. Feel free to give me a call (405.912.4885) directly or email (blogging4jobs@gmail.com) if you have any questions about the event. Xceptional HR is sponsoring our own table as well as live tweeting and streaming the event. Be sure to follow the Twitter hash tag, #hope as well as @HeartLine for real time insights and information into the Festival of Hope.
Hope to see you there.
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