We're a nonprofit Café with a mission to help women in recovery.
Café Appalachia hopes to inspire West Virginians to change the narrative around Substance Use Disorder. Our goal is the reintegration of women in recovery back into society. We do so through economic development, education, employment training, and teaching basic life skills.
Our Mission
Through workforce development, sober living, and economic development, Pollen8 helps women in recovery break the cycle of addiction and build self-sufficient lives.
Our Vision
We envision an Appalachia where every woman in recovery has meaningful work, a safe place to call home, and a thriving community to belong to, and where the cycle of addiction ends with her.
How We Help
We’ve created a recovery ecosystem that provides support for women in recovery to be successfully reintegrated back into communities.
A greater purpose
Grow. Feed. Teach.
Pollen8’s primary Social Enterprises – Café Appalachia, Café Downtown, Café Catering, and Cultiv8 Urban Garden – help women by raising socio-economic status and providing a sense of belonging. From a restaurant and catering business, to agricultural skills — women will learn to embrace their purpose, break the monotony of life, improve their financial position, and have the means, resources and relationships to avoid returning to where they came from.
