The Hope Bus in Asheville, North Carolina: Funding Counseling Sessions for Food and Beverage Workers throughout the City

Source: WLOS

Outside of Bear’s Smokehouse BBQ in the South Slope of Asheville, North Carolina, you will find a bus. This is the Hope Bus

The Hope bus is one of the initiatives of Linked4Life. Its mission is to spread awareness around mental health and collect funds to provide free counseling services to food and beverage workers in the city.  Linked4Life’s goal is to be able to give six free counseling sessions to each worker who reaches out.

All Souls Counseling Center has partnered with Linked4Life to make this happen. This local nonprofit is based in Asheville and provides therapy sessions on a sliding scale to adults. 

Since July 4th, the Hope Bus has been open from 12pm to 8pm daily.

For $6 dollars, visitors can make a donation and receive a pair of Linked4Life blue carabiners, which signifies the power of being connected to another human being. 

Cheryl Anotnicic, co-founder of Bear’s Smokehouse and founder of the Linked4Life Foundation, told ABC 13 News, “We need to break the stigma of mental health and send a clear message to those who need it most that they are not alone […] Being in the food and beverage industry, we know how impactful this initiative will be to our entire Asheville community.”

If you would like to support this initiative, make your way to the Hope Bus that is in front of Bear’s Smokehouse BBQ in Downtown Asheville.

Can’t make it to Asheville but want to still support this initiative? Visit the Linked4Life website and make a donation

Share:

More Posts

Cómo la Casa Blanca ignoró la orden de un juez para dar vuelta los vuelos de deportación

La administración Trump dijo que ignoró una orden judicial para dar vuelta dos aviones con supuestos miembros de pandillas venezolanas porque los vuelos estaban sobre aguas internacionales. La decisión de la administración de desafiar la orden de un juez federal es extremadamente rara y altamente controvertida. “La orden judicial fue desobedecida. El primero de muchos, como he estado advirtiendo, y el comienzo de una verdadera crisis constitucional”, escribió el abogado de seguridad nacional Mark S. Zaid, crítico de Trump, en X, añadiendo que Trump podría ser finalmente destituido. La Casa Blanca da la bienvenida a esa lucha. “Esto llegará a la Corte Suprema. Y vamos a ganar”, dijo un alto funcionario de la Casa Blanca a Axios.

House Democrats try to move North Carolina’s minimum wage closer to a living wage

Democrats in the North Carolina legislature are attempting to raise the state’s minimum wage which has not been increased in over 15 years. Representatives Allison Dahl (D-District 11), Aisha Dew (D-District 111), Bryan Cohn (D-District 32), and Marcia Morey (D-District 30) filed House Bill 353, titled the “Fair Minimum Wage Act”, would not just raise the minimum wage once but continue to raise it as time goes on. 

“Dooming a lot of us to early deaths”: North Carolinians Fear Republicans’ Proposed Medicaid Cuts

About 3 million North Carolina residents — one in four —  receive health coverage through Medicaid, a figure that includes the more than 640,000 people who received coverage through the state’s Medicaid expansion program starting in Dec. 2023. Under state law, North Carolina’s Medicaid expansion program would end should federal funding for the program drop below 90%, cutting off access to the 640,000 North Carolinians who’ve gotten coverage under the expansion.