Grieving Arkansas families come together for overdose awareness [Video]

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The fifth annual “Bridge the Gap” event was held on Saturday at Riverfront Park in North Little Rock.

It was hosted by the Hope Movement Coalition along with the CWC Alliance and allowed families who have lost loved ones to an overdose—or people who have struggled with addiction—to come together.

Staci James founded the Hope Movement Coalition in 2019 because she saw a need and wanted to fill it.

“I lost my son in March of that year,” James said. “I realized that there was nothing in place to support me, to support my loss, and I slowly met other Arkansas families, and we came together to form this coalition…. we didn’t want any other family in the state of Arkansas, whether they had a loved one struggling with substance use disorder, or they had …