01/11/2025
Code Purple for this weekend
💜📣 THE ASHEVILLE HOMELESS COALITION HAS ISSUED A CODE PURPLE 💜📣 **Note NEW LOCATION for FAMILIES at Safe Shelter Asheville, located at Trinity UMC on Haywood Rd!
💻 *A referral is required at Safe Shelter. Complete form online at CounterflowAsheville.com/contact-referral - then call to confirm availability: 828.606.2091 or 828.595.6101
💟 The purpose of the Code Purple procedure is to provide a coordinated effort among Asheville and Buncombe County shelters and other organizations to provide emergency overflow shelter to people experiencing homelessness during extremely cold weather (at/below 32°, including windchill, or 33°-40° with precipitation). During Code Purple, participating shelters will provide more beds with fewer requirements than their typical programming. Sobriety and identification are not required for entry. 🫶🏼
☎️ For more info on Code Purple, please call the hotline at (828) 398-6011
🚌 Transportation Info:
• ABCCM will provide shuttle service with pickups at its Crisis Ministry (24 Cumberland Ave) at 4PM.
• ABCCM will facilitate shuttle service to/from the transit stop closest to Transformation Village.
• Bus transit through ART is free to Code Purple sites at night and from Code Purple sites to downtown the following morning.
• Riders should identify themselves to the driver as needing free transit to Code Purple sites beginning 3:20pm and going to 8:00pm (when general shelter intake closes)
•The morning after a Code Purple event, transport is available back to Coxe Ave terminal Monday–Saturday from 6AM to 9:30AM, and 8AM to 10:45AM on Sundays. Inbound service is not available after above times if Code Purple has not been issued for that night also.
• When Code Purple is in effect for multiple days, ART transport is available throughout the day.
• Drivers reserve the right to eject passengers for disruptive, dangerous, or threatening behavior or speech.
• Community Paramedics and Community Responders are available to provide transportation for people who are unable to access bus transit.
• Mission Hospital will facilitate taxi service to Code Purple shelters for people being discharged from the hospital.