SOAR Madison

02/19/2026

Hotel Washington was a sanctuary and a gathering space for the LGBTQ+ community in Madison for decades. As we are engaged in preserving Madison’s q***r history, let’s lift up Hotel Washington’s presence and influence on our community.

How Madison's q***r community rallied and recovered from the devastating Hotel Washington fire of Feb. 18, 1996.

Read more: https://go.madison.com/LGBTQhotel?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_madison.com

02/19/2026

Day 17
Its the 17th day of Black History Month! Today and every day, we celebrate Black Brilliance, Black Resilience & Achievements.

Audre Lorde was a poet and activist whose work centered Black identity, feminism, and justice.

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02/19/2026

🦅 SOARING STAFF SPOTLIGHT 🦅

Today, we spotlight Gala, our Community Peer Specialist, who presented a breakout at the Infinite Mind Healing Together Conference in Orlando earlier this month. Her presentation, “Mending the Fragments: Navigating Grief in Dissociative Identity Disorder through Kintsugi Grief Art,” explored the intersection of grief, dissociation, and healing through creative expression.

Drawing from lived experience and peer values, Gala shared how the art of Kintsugi, which is repairing broken pottery with gold, can serve as a meaningful metaphor for integrating loss, honoring complex trauma/dissociation, and recognizing beauty in the healing process.

"Conversations like these help expand understanding of complex trauma and remind us that healing does not erase the fractures...it illuminates them," Gala says.

Gala thanks the Infinite Mind Board of Directors for creating space for brave and transformative dialogue.

To learn more about An Infinite Mind’s mission and their important work, visit https://www.aninfinitemind.org/.

02/18/2026

Join SOAR's mission to reimagine mental health! 🌟 We're hiring for multiple roles serving people in Dane County. Lead with empathy, care about justice, and believe in community-rooted healing, and you just may be a fit.

Know someone who'd thrive? Share this post! 📢
All positions will remain posted until filled.

01/30/2026

Check out this incredible opportunity to participate in a community art installation led by Urban Triage!

Art reveals. Art heals. 🌻

🎨 CALLING ALL ARTISTS & CREATORS 🎨

Madison, we’re building something powerful and we need YOU.

Urban Triage is calling artists, builders, designers, and creators to help imagine, design, and build a one-day Seen & Unseen public art installation on all four corners of the Capitol Square.

📅 Feb 6
⏰ 1–5 PM
📍 Capitol Square

This is about visibility, storytelling, and community power.
Volunteer hours are provided for everyone who participates.

👉 Sign up here: https://forms.gle/me9kAvduWz79Fbbp9
Tag an artist, designer, or creative who needs to be part of this.

01/30/2026

01/30/2026

We are proud to support Chrysalis, Inc as they launch their annual Big Share campaign, accompanied by a very special and inspiring storytelling event.

We are grateful for the opportunity to partner with Chrysalis to provide employment and peer support services to the SOAR community.

Thank you for your incredible work, Chrysalis! 💜💚

We're thrilled to announce that Chrysalis is participating in The Big Share, hosted by Community Shares of Wisconsin!! 🎉

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Every contribution, big or small, means the world to us and directly supports our mission to promote mental health and substance use recovery in our community. We do this by supporting work opportunities that encourage hope, healing, and wellness for all.

Join us here on March 3rd to make a difference! Your support empowers our community. Support Chrysalis for The Big Share at the link here: https://www.thebigshare.org/organizations/chrysalis
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But that's not all! On March 3rd, you can also join us for our special Shared Threads storytelling event! Find all the details on our Facebook Events page to see how you can get involved. Find Shared Threads event details here: https://www.facebook.com/share/1E69MDyZGr/

01/12/2026

We just want to take a moment to say thank you 💜

Because of your generosity, SOAR has received over $2,000 in monetary and in-kind donations through our Winter Wishes Drive — and packages are still arriving at the office!

This drive truly wouldn’t have happened without SOAR staff (and their friends and families), the local businesses who sponsored and supported us (Festival Foods & Woodman's Food Markets), the spaces that let us hang flyers, and everyone who believes in our mission and chose to give in whatever way they could.

We’re so grateful to be part of a community that shows up for one another. Thank you for helping make the Winter Wishes Drive possible for our program participants and peers.

Until next year! ❄️💙

01/07/2026

We're still hiring for our Clinical Supervisor position. See the post below for more information. Thank you!

01/07/2026

SOAR's peer respite program, Solstice House, continues to build its team to support non-clinical crisis alternatives and is now hiring Peer Respite Supporters!

Check out their post below, and like and share this post with your social networks to spread the word. 💛💜🩵

12/18/2025

SOAR has an exciting announcement!

Riley Drake, Phd., Assistant Professor at UW-Stout's Department of Counseling, Rehabilitation, and Human Services is a researcher who's passionate about psychiatric abolition and radical alternatives to crisis. She approached SOAR to do an important research study.

This research is critical to understanding how people in crisis and people who receive mental health / substance use care services are impacted by mandated reporting, risk assessment and other practices that lead to involuntary commitment and losses of autonomy when navigating care.

See the below flyer for more information.

Email draker@uwstout.edu for more info about how to get involved.

Please circulate to your networks!

11/16/2025

Who is a fit for Solstice House? 🛏️ 🩶 Who is peer respite for? We are Madison’s only Crisis Alternative.