Friends of the Smokies
Community Services Non Profits
Why pick this one
Friends of John provides daytime Christ-centered 12-step meetings, while Operation Gateway adds peer-led reentry, healthcare, housing, and employment support.
Best for
- People seeking faith-based recovery meetings during daytime hours
- People recovering from addiction, trauma, grief, divorce, codependency, mental health challenges, or spiritual harm
- Formerly incarcerated individuals needing coordinated housing, healthcare, transportation, identification, or employment assistance
- People unable to attend in-person meetings who need remote recovery support
- Institutions and residential settings seeking in-reach recovery meetings
Look elsewhere if
- People seeking secular recovery programming without a Christian component
- People needing emergency medical detox or direct clinical treatment rather than peer support and resource navigation
Specialties
- Christ-centered 12-step recovery meetings
- Recovery support for addiction, trauma, grief, divorce, codependency, mental health challenges, and spiritual harm
- Reentry support for formerly incarcerated individuals
- In-reach recovery meetings in institutions and residential settings
- Employment support for justice-involved Black men in Buncombe County
Certifications
- Certified Community Health Workers
- Certified Peer Support Specialists
What makes them different
- Friends of John offers one-hour Christ-centered 12-step meetings during the day, with in-person and remote options.
- Operation Gateway uses formerly incarcerated Community Health Workers and Peer Support Specialists to provide reentry assistance.
- NC FIT supports eligible individuals with chronic illness, mental illness, or substance use disorder during reentry and for up to two years after release.
- The in-reach ministry brings recovery meetings to institutions and residential settings.
- EMPOWER has served more than 80 members since launching in 2024 through training, job matching, and wraparound support.
- Serves
- Asheville
Distilled from this business's own website.
Contact & Location
- Address
- 84 Coxe Ave #200, Asheville, NC 28801
- Phone
- +18284520720
- Website
- https://www.operationgateway.org/friendsofjohn
- renee@operationgateway.org
Services
- Peer recovery support
- Reentry navigation
- Community health worker services
- Healthcare and behavioral health connections
- Housing and food resource assistance
- Vital records and identification assistance
- Career services and workforce development
- Transportation coordination
- Faith-based support