A sunshine Coast Chef Amber kaba has started The White jacket Effect to empower hospitality workers with mental health tools to help themselves and their workmates.
Ms Kaba said she struggled with alcoholism herself but it was the recent suicide of a friend driving her to help address a mental helth crisis facing the hospitality industry.
In partnership with restaurants in Sydney, Noosa, Canberra, Melbourne and Brisbane, Ms Kaba is touring The White Jacket Effect campaign, to start a conversation about mental health and the services available to hospitality workers.