2017

March 2017

• 10,000 Beds Founder Jean Krisle, with husband Hal Krisle, sold her home and bought a 40′ 5th wheel! Then they had it logo-wrapped and offered its use for the nonprofit organization, 10,000 Beds, Inc.

April 2017

• Early April: Jean and Hal stored their belongings in 4 pods and sent them off to 1-800-PACKRATS, packed the 5th wheel, then tearfully said goodbye to family and friends before hitting the road for more than a year.

• Mid-April: Southern California and Arizona for meetings, tours, and an event at the Arizona State Capital.

• Late April: Eastward bound, they drove straight across the country to Hilton Head, Florida. It was a long haul!

May 2017

• May 4-15: Hilton Head, SC for Treatment Center Executive & Marketing Retreat

• May 20: Cleveland, OH to support Steps of Change, Summit OhioCAN

• May 25: Dallas, TX for NEST Park Cities/Dallas Networking event

• May 26: Ft. Worth, TX for Stonegate Center-hosted event at the Dean & Deluca Invitational PGA Golf Tournament

• May 27 – 28: Tours of Stonegate Center and Touchstone Ranch Recovery Center

June 2017

• June 5: Salt Lake City, UT for Interview with ABC4, Randall Carlisle (aired 6/5/17)

• June 7: South Jordan, UT for strategy meeting with our partner Elevated Billing Solutions

• June 8: Draper, UT to tour Deer Hollow Recovery

• June 9: American Fork, UT for strategy meeting with our partner Revity Solutions

• June 12: Lake Arrowhead, CA to tour Serenity Lodge

• June 13: San Juan Capistrano, CA to tour Hope by the Sea

• June 13: Pasadena, CA for meetings with Ryan Hamption and Garrett Hade of Facing Addiction and AddictionXAmerica and 10,000 Beds board member Kristina Steele

• June 15: Lake Arrowhead, CA for meeting with 10,000 Beds board members Doreen Rutherford and Terry Patton

• June 17: Back in OHIO! (we love sleeping in our own bed)

• June 19 – 21: Austintown, OH to tour California Palms Addiction Recovery Campus and strategy meeting with Michael Lohan and PJ Schrantz

• June 24: Anderson, IN for the HOPE Concert at Bridges of Hope

• June 29: Chicago, IL for ETHOS Series

2017, cont.

July 2017

• July 7 – 8: Lake Worth, FL for The Art of Recovery Film Festival

• July 9 – 11: Orlando, FL for National Speaker’s Association’s Influence 2017

• July 12 – 14: Hollywood, FL for State of Recovery Conference

August – September 2017

• Jean and Hal will spend most of August and much of September working on fundraising, sponsorships, and partner outreach from their Utah office. Of course, there will be events too!

• August 16-20: Baltimore, MD for National Conference on Addiction Disorders (NCAD)

• August 25: Denver, CO for ETHOS Series

• August 31: Salt Lake City for International Overdose Awareness Day at Utah State Capitol

• Meet & Greets! Utah, Nevada, SoCal

October – November 2017

• Meet & Greets! Utah, Pennsylvania

• October 24: Salt Lake City Roundtable, sponsored by  Rivermend Health

• October 26: Philadelphia, PA for ETHOS Series

December 2017

• December 3: Los Angeles, CA for Recovery Reform NOW Event

• December 4 – 6: Scottsdale, AZ for Treatment Center Investment & Valuation Retreat

• December 14: New Orleans, LA for ETHOS Series

• December 19: New Jersey, meeting with families of children lost to overdose

2018

January 2018

Jean and Hal will spend January working from their Utah office

February – March 2018

Meet & Greets! in California, Oregon and Washington.

April, May, June, July, August 2018 

Meet & Greets!  Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon & Washington

Atlanta, GA for National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit

Denver, CO for National Addiction Leadership Conference

Palm Springs, CA for C4s West Coast Symposium on Addictive Disorders

Anaheim, CA for NCAD

September & October 2018

BigBlue will be resting.

November & December 2018

Home for the holidays!