Start Healing Now

12/02/2025

💜 This , Give the Gift of Recovery 💜

When you support Start Healing Now, you’re helping save lives and bring hope to individuals and families impacted by the opioid epidemic.

Your donation directly supports:

✨ Overdose Aid Kits (O.A.K.) placed in schools, businesses, and community spaces across Wisconsin — empowering bystanders to reverse an overdose and save a life.
✨ Free NARCAN® access and overdose response training so more people are prepared to act in an emergency.
✨ Sober living and transitional support for individuals rebuilding their lives in early recovery.

Every gift moves us closer to ending opioid addiction — one life, one family, one community at a time.

💜 Give the Gift of Recovery today:
https://starthealingnow.org/give-back/

Thank you for standing with us in this life-saving work. Together, we can help more people start healing now. 💜

11/30/2025

Thank you, Safe Communities, for helping expand access to Overdose Aid Kit - OAKs in Dane County! 🌱💙

We’re grateful for your partnership and your dedication to making overdose response tools easy to access across the community. Your efforts help ensure more people are prepared to save a life.

Together, we’re strengthening the Overdose Aid Kit Program and building a safer, healthier Wisconsin.

11/28/2025

✨ This Black Friday, Give the Gift of Recovery

Today isn’t just about deals — it’s about making a real impact.

At Start Healing Now, we’re committed to saving lives through overdose prevention, sober-living support, and recovery resources for individuals and families across Wisconsin. 💜

Your donation helps us:

🟣 Provide free Overdose Aid Kits (OAK) in high-risk areas
🟣 Expand education & outreach in our communities
🟣 Support individuals transitioning into recovery
🟣 Equip families with lifesaving tools, including NARCAN®

Every dollar helps us bring hope, healing, and second chances.

💜 Donate today: https://starthealingnow.org/donate/

Together, we can save lives.

11/27/2025

Thank you for supporting hope, healing, and second chances. Happy Thanksgiving! 🧡🦃

11/24/2025

Naloxone training!

Thank you Alarus Healthcare, LLC for hosting a naloxone training on Saturday and allowing us to showcase our programs! We had a blast!
15 new people trained, 27 doses of naloxone distributed and 16 fentanyl testing strips handed out!

Looking forward to our next training on December 20 2025 at 1pm at the Alarus clinic, 1622 Chestnut St, West Bend!

11/23/2025

Every.Student.Matters.

This past Wednesday and Thursday, Start Healing Now hosted a resource table at Verona Area High School for the presentation of The New Drug Talk: Connect to Protect informing parents and students the dangers of fentanyl and counterfeit pills.

We were able to speak with the students during their lunch peroid about the OAK Boxes and the importance of always carrying Nalaxone.

11/21/2025

Congratulations to our partners at Marquette University with Marquette Recovery, Section Yellow Nation and The Phoenix - Milwaukee for the awesome job creating this news piece! We love our sober community and events!
Join us for the next event coming soon!
Milwaukee Bucks Game- March 17th!

As more Americans choose sobriety, teams like the Green Bay Packers are supporting sober tailgating options, reflecting a national shift in attitudes toward alcohol.

11/21/2025

Country music star Zach Bryan revealed he has been sober for two months after taking a self-reflective journey across the country.

11/16/2025

Alarus Healthcare, LLC, Beaver Dam, is hosting a free naloxone (Narcan) training on Saturday, November 22nd at 1pm! Please feel free to share this with any of your board members, colleagues, family, and friends. This is open to the public.
Get signed up today!
https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSfpTxYpXYs1fZ.../viewform

11/15/2025

MKE Admirals Recovery Night!!!
• Sober Tailgate at the GATHER in Deer District ✔️
• FREE food and mocktails for everyone ✔️
• füi Photobooth, Music, and Games ✔️
• Free resources from the most amazing community members and their organizations ✔️
• Free tickets to the hockey game ✔️

What an awesome night watching the Milwaukee Admirals vs Manitoba Moose!

Thank you to everyone who joined Michael and Jessie last night for this fantastic evening! We had a blast!
Special thanks to all the event coordinators and sponsors for making this night possible!

11/14/2025

🌟 Our November Newsletter Is Out! 🌟

October was a big month—Mobilize Recovery’s Campus Surge, the WI Mental Health & Substance Use Recovery Conference, a great conversation with Senator Jesse James, and outreach at Marquette’s Recovery Day Fair.

This issue also highlights Parent Ambassador Shari Klessig, why high schools need Narcan, and the Nov 19th event: The New Drug Talk: Connect to Protect, at the Verona High School.

💜 Read the full newsletter to see how we’re building safer, stronger communities together.

11/14/2025

Thank you Safe Communities for participating in the Overdose Aid Kit - OAK program! ❤️

Be a part of preventing overdoses! OAK boxes are all over Dane County and contain free Narcan and fentanyl test strips. Use them in an emergency or take them for future use.

Find a location near you thanks to Safe Communities:
https://tinyurl.com/39cbazje