SOAR Madison

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!

12/17/2025

Hey friends! There’s still time to make a difference with SOAR's Winter Wishes Drive, which wraps up this Saturday!

To donate:
- Simply scan the QR code in the flyer below for our Amazon Wish List and donation pages.
- Drop off your donations at the Festival Foods on East Wash Ave. Look for the bins with our festive blue flyers.

A HUGE thank you to everyone who has already donated! Your generosity and care warm the hearts of the SOAR community, and you continue to make our wishes come true! ❄️☃️

12/12/2025

Community care is essential to our mission at SOAR. We invite you to participate in this upcoming opportunity from our amazing community and funding partner, Project LETS!

Click here to register: https://shorturl.at/CcxVV

Holistic and Anti-Carceral Approaches to Mental Health and Crisis Response for Mental Health Workers

12/04/2025

12/03/2025

SOAR's Winter Wishes Drive is officially underway! Our donation bins are now set up at Festival Foods on East Washington Ave., and you can find our flyers across Madison. ❄️✨

We appreciate the generosity our community consistently shows in supporting local nonprofits during the holiday season and through challenging times.

Every contribution matters—whether you choose to donate funds for staff to purchase needed items to better serve our guests at Solstice House Peer Respite or buy directly from our Amazon Wish List. Your support truly makes a positive impact in the lives of those we serve.

Thank you for helping to spread warmth and joy this winter! 💛💜💙

Please share this post with your friends, neighbors, colleagues, and clergy!

11/16/2025

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

11/16/2025

“Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art; the art of words…the name of our beautiful reward is not profit, it is freedom.”
— Ursula Le Guin 🖤

Our chalk board is one of the best things at the house.

11/16/2025

What is Solstice House? 🌻 What is a peer respite? 🏡 We are a crisis alternative based in voice, choice and self-determination. Call (608) 244-5077 to ask about peer respite and explore how a crisis alternative can support you differently. We are Madison’s only peer respite.

11/14/2025

We’re excited for Nze Okoronta and Angela Francis of SOAR to present and facilitate breakout sessions at OutReach’s first-ever Harm Reduction Conference.

Thank you for your dedication in representing the SOAR community, Nze and Angela! We’re grateful for your contributions to radical care in Dane County and the community-at-large. 🎉

11/14/2025

Living Madly and Beyond is going strong ~ 🕊️❤️‍🔥

We are a space for people with lived experience of madness, crisis, distress, extreme/altered states, or psychiatric systems to gather, share, and explore what healing and resistance can look like outside of traditional systems and clinical/medical frameworks.

Rooted in the values of Mad Pride x Mad Liberation we affirm the wisdom in lived experience and reject the pathology, misunderstanding, and criminalization placed on our minds, bodies, and ways of being.

🌀 Who It’s For:
- People with lived experience of madness, crisis, distress, extreme/altered states, psychiatrization, and/or psychiatric systems

- People with the lived experiences above who are wanting to reimagine what it means to radically self-define identity outside of symptoms and diagnoses

- People seeking to explore new language and share about different meanings of their experiences

- People who want to build community and learn from others who are also surviving, thriving, grieving, and living with madness

You do not need to identify as “mad” to join—just come as you are. Bring your truth and curiosity.

All identities, bodies, neurotypes, and experiences are welcome.

🏡 Group Details:
Location: Online (Zoom)
Time: Weekly
Cost: FREE
Hosted by: Solstice House Peer Respite – Madison, WI
Open to: Must be 18+, anyone in the US

Questions or want to join?
To ask ?s + sign up to receive the zoom link:
• email nzeo@soarcms.org
• call (608) 886-9735

! 💜 MAD LOVE TO ALL 💜

11/13/2025

Calling all night owls! Solstice House Peer Respite will be starting a new drop-in style virtual peer support group, hosted by our 3rd shifters. This group is open to anyone located in the US (you do not need to live in Wisconsin or be local to Solstice House).

Midnight Resistance is a late-night peer support space. We gather after dark to offer one another presence, care, and solidarity—without judgment. Whether you can’t sleep, are looking for companionship, or want to share what’s on your heart, you’re welcome here. Together we hold space for real conversation, rest, and resilience in the quiet hours of the night. 💜

Midnight Resistance will be held 3x weekly-- Tues, Thurs & Sat evenings.

To sign up and join:
Email Nze Okoronta at: nzeo@soarcms.org
~ Or call (608) 886-9735 if you have any questions.

Once we have a list going, a scheduling poll will be sent out. We will then send out zoom invitations, based on times that work best for all.🌛

11/13/2025

SOAR's peer respite program, Solstice House, is hiring Peer Respite Supporters for all shifts!

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