Peptoc is a public art project by Jessica Martin, Asherah Weiss, and young people of the world. Thank you everyone for your support!
Go to PEPTOC.ORG to donate to help us pay for the hotline fees, more info on new projects, and to buy our BOOK!
09/18/2025
THANK YOU Cliff TheGift Wallace for spreading the word! These kids just keep going viral-- almost 200,000 calls so far today. Please consider donating to help us cover this month's hotline fees and keep it available to all for many years to come! Thank you everyone for your kind comments-- we are so very proud of these kids. Go to Peptoc.org for more info on donating and learn about our next projects!
02/23/2025
Love this!! Thank you Youranxietyislying2yew for making this sign and spreading the word! We just got 150,000 in the last two hours... If you are able, please donate to help us cover the hotline fees so we can keep the project available to all! Even $1 helps, and all donations are tax-deductible. More at peptoc.net
02/23/2025
Save Peptoc hotline! We just keep going viral, receiving hundreds of thousands of calls a day and almost 18 million calls total since we launched the hotline three years ago. At these huge call volumes, the hotline fees get very expensive. Peptoc is entirely dependent on donations to cover these fees and keep it available to all! Please donate if you are able-- even $1 goes a long way. All donations are tax-deductible. Thank you everyone for your help! Jessica
need some encouragement? Call 707-873-7862
https://www.peptoc.net/donate
08/05/2024
We’re in TIME magazine, just in time for the release of our book, You Are Amazing Like A Rocket. Available everywhere books are sold!
How a Hotline by Elementary Students Reached 17 Million Calls The Peptoc hotline has become a tool that allows children to bring joy into difficult times.
11/27/2023
Yay! We finally made a page! Please follow us on Instagram at for an archive of photos and reels and announcements about our project. Thank you to all our supporters and callers! Call 707-873-7862 / 707-8-PEPTOC to hear pre-recorded messages of encouragement from the students at West Side Elementary. We have received over 13 million calls from all over the world since we launched the project in March 2022.
11/27/2023
THANK YOU to all our callers! We have received over 13 MILLION calls since we first launched the hotline in March 2022. For more information on the project and how to participate in our call for posters, go to peptoc.net
11/27/2023
A page in our upcoming book featuring posters with encouraging messages from young people around the world! This one was made by a 6th grader at West Side Elementary, quoting a fellow schoolmate who was recorded for the Peptoc hotline.
11/27/2023
Peptoc featured on Telemundo!