Welcome back to Good Day Stateline. It's Wednesday,
which, of course, means it's game day tonight.
Laura is here from Marshmallows
Hope, thanks so much for coming in.
Thank you so much for having me. It's an honor.
Such an important topic, such an important organization.
We will get to the ice cream game in a moment.
It looks beautiful.
Shout out to Hannah for this beautiful ice cream combo.
Of course.
We want to talk about marshmallows. Hope for.
So, Laura, tell us a little bit about it.
Well, so Marshmallows
Hope is a nonprofit organization that we started in
honor of Zachary Burkle's,
which is my 14 year old son after he died by suicide.
We want to raise awareness in the community
about mental health,
and we wanted to help support the youth who, like Thackery,
may be struggling in silence.
So we've
combined our main program, which is called Hero Mentors
with at risk adult population,
such as first responders, veterans service members.
We realize that those adults are also at risk for suicide.
So by linking up a relationship with children,
we're hoping to give them what we call
a protective factor to keep them alive,
keep them going, give them a sense of purpose.
You know, I met you and I learned so much about this
at an event last fall, which is that
I can not even believe with September
because that is Suicide Awareness Month, correct?
Correct. Up on that again. Yeah, yeah.
It's unbelievable.
It's gone by super fast
and it is so important to talk about this.
The thing I took away most from that event is the fact that
a lot of young, pre-teen and teenage boys
is and ends up being who we're talking about at these events.
And I didn't really realize that it was such a
direct population.
Yeah.
I mean, unfortunately, we raise our boys especially
right with the toughen up buttercup mentality, right?
Hide your feelings, hush up, don't cry.
And so unfortunately, we are creating
this silence in them.
If they are struggling, it's super difficult for them
to reach out and say, Hey, I need help.
And so unfortunately it's the second, you know,
suicide is the second leading cause of death in young
teenagers, especially males and young adults as well.
Right.
So that's where marshmallows help comes in.
So if you can
be a part of any of the events that marshmallows help
has coming up, which I have three I know on my list,
we have a 5050 raffle on the record Speedway on August 20th.
So that's coming up.
And then a barbecue for the hero
and our families on December 18.
And then a suicide prevention dinner fundraiser
for the hero program on November 12th.
So a lot happening. Yes, absolutely.
And we're also in desperate need of mentors.
Currently, we have 52 boys on our waitlist.
So anybody with a giving heart, we need your support.
Sign up to mentor a child.
So good. Good to know that that's what you're looking for.
And of course, we can get more information.
I'm sure there's a website we can check out marshmallows.
Help marshmallows, hope that. Org.
Okay, cool. So we're all going to go there.
We're all going to learn more now.
We're going to play a game which I think
all ages will enjoy this game.
So this game is called PIN the Cherry on the Ice Cream.
I'm going to let you go first. All right.
As our guest was right, a mask on your eyes.
That's totally fine.
So I'm going to help you. I'm going to help viewers harnesses.
I can help you or I can give you the
I'm feeling great now, so I to help you out.
So once you're ready, once you're blind, some wake you like
I don't want to spin you too hard
because spinning is not like one one's around here.
Laura, I'm okay.
You're facing the board,
and you got to get the cherry
on the.
If you're, like, take, like, two and a half step forward.
I love your shoes. Thank you.
To the right.
Okay, I'll play three quarters of an inch.
All right. A little more value.
All right.
Down, down, down, down.
Boom.
I did you trick me or did you?
I am a good friend.
All right, take the thing off.
You don't even need to win more.
Guys, we did it.
We finish right now.
You ready?
All right, let me get out of here.
I can do
without falling over. Okay.
That's been me one.
All right.
Ready? Yeah, right.
One more time. There you go.
And again.
Yep, right there. Okay.
Go straight and a little to the left
and up and a little down, down, down.
The right to the right.
Right there.
Oh, okay.
What do we do?
Our best friend.
I think you win.
But that looks so huge.
And I. Two cherries is better than one.
This is a fun game and actually animated for us.
Like I said, pretty Brianna totally a fun game
that you can play to celebrate ice cream. We get home.
Thank you so much for coming in. Thank you for having me.
Please check out Marshmallow's Hope online.
Wine Wednesday is naturally right back.