Dialing Up a Difference: How Toll Free Numbers Help to Promote Social Change

Some serious individual struggles can shake the human spirit. Toll free services provide benefits for people from all walks of life including businessmen, soldiers, seniors, and even troubled teenagers. These numbers continue to provide a service and purpose regardless of how difficult circumstances may be.

In the state of Montana, a chain of charitable organizations including the Salvation Army, Ray of Hope, and The United Way have assembled a hotline to provide the homeless with food and shelter assistance and even social services.

In Effingham, IL, the Illinois Elks Crippled Children’s Program offers a toll free service for uninsured children up to age 21 access to a medical sports clinic. The goal of this program is to help children and their families overcome medical concerns, particularly those who struggle without medical insurance.

And who can forget the mental health and suicide-prevention hotlines which span across the nation? These hotlines receive calls ranging from troubled teenagers to soldiers returning home from war. An article written by NPR states, “This year President Obama ordered measures that include doubling the staff at the Veteran’s Crisis Line.” Outreach organizations for teenagers in some states such as North Carolina, Nevada, and New Jersey also offer text-based services in addition to their toll free numbers.

Toll free numbers have and will continue to do provide benefits to causes and for people in need. If you have an organization or a personal calling to provide a charitable service, whether in your area or across the United States, a toll free number can extend your reach in ways you never thought possible.