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Solstice House Peer Respite

A Community Crisis Alternative (SAMSHA, 2022)

Solstice House is a peer-run respite staffed by individuals who have their own lived experience with mental health and/or substance use challenges and are actively engaged in their own recovery. "Through shared understanding, respect, and mutual empowerment, peer support workers help people become and stay engaged in the recovery process and reduce the likelihood of relapse."

08/13/2025

Join us this Sunday to celebrate Madison's vibrant LGBTQIA2P+ community and explore the diverse resources and support systems available, along with our community partner, OutReach LGBTQ Community Center!

Visit the Solstice House table for more information about our peer respite services. Discover our ongoing peer-run support circles, which are facilitated by experienced leaders in the non-carceral peer space.

We look forward to seeing you there! 💜💚💙💛

08/01/2025

LIVING MADLY & BEYOND Support Group Update!

Hosted by Solstice House and facilitated by Nze Okoronta, Executive Director of Peer Services at SOAR Case Management Services, Inc. 💜

To accommodate everyone, we meet weekly, alternating days:
* Tuesdays: 3-4:30 PM CST
* Thursdays 4-5:30 PM CST

Upcoming group dates:
* 8/7 (Thurs)
* 8/12 (Tues)
* 8/21 (Thurs)
* 8/26 (Tues)
* 9/4 (Thurs)
* 9/9 (Tues)
* 9/18 (Thurs)

Our first two groups had about 10 participants each, with continuing strong interest. To ensure everyone gets time to share, groups may soon be capped at 15-18 people.

🖤 Please keep reaching out even if the group is full! More groups are in the works—including affinity spaces, community organizing, networking, and more—to support Mad Pride efforts both locally and nationally.

07/31/2025

SAVE THE DATE! We'll be tabling at OutReach LGBTQ Community Center’s Magic Pride Festival this year!

📅 When: Sunday, August 17 | 1:00–6:00 PM
📍 Where: Warner Park

It will be a day filled with connection, color, and community — and here’s what you can look forward to:

✨ A stage show featuring local drag artists
🛍️ Vendors with q***r pride merch
🎉 Activities for youth and families
🍔 Delicious food

Stop by our table to connect with Solstice House staff, learn about peer respite and our community-based, non-carceral services, and collect some pride swag.

We're ready to share who we are and what we do, while having a blast with q***r folx across the region! 💖

07/28/2025

SOAR Case Management Services and Solstice House were recently featured in an important article on Mad In America! If you believe in community care that doesn't rely on institutions and forced treatment, please share this article with others. Read here: https://www.madinamerica.com/.../america-is-legislating.../

Nze Okoronta, SOAR's Executive Director of Peer Services, said, "This is a significant piece highlighting the urgency of our work and the broader context of non-carceral, peer-led alternatives to forced treatment."

07/25/2025

We strongly oppose the new executive order that criminalizes houselessness and targets people who use drugs or live with mental health challenges—coercing them into treatment or hospitalization.

This is not a step forward.
This isn’t care. It’s control.
And, it's harmful and dangerous.

At Solstice House, we believe in a different approach:
- Care should never be forced
- Harm reduction saves lives
- You can’t punish people into stability, housing, or healing

If you believe in non-carceral, community-based care, help us keep Solstice House strong:
👉https://shorturl.at/xK3vv

Be an advocate. Contact your representatives. Let them know you choose care over cruelty:
👉https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

07/09/2025

SOAR and Solstice House Peer Respite has started a new peer support group. See below for details and more information! This group is open to anyone (not limited to Wisconsin). Please share this post and our flyer widely!

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🌠 Living Madly & Beyond
A Mad Pride Support Space | Hosted by Solstice House Peer Respite – Madison, WI

Living Madly and Beyond is a weekly online Mad Pride support group—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, we affirm the wisdom in lived experience and reject the pathology, misunderstanding, and criminalization placed on our minds, bodies, and ways of being.

This is a peer-led space hosted by Solstice House Peer Respite where we center voice, autonomy, and non-carceral responses to pain, transformation, and meaning-making. Together, we practice community care through storytelling, listening, creativity, and connection—living madly, and beyond.

🌀 Who It’s For:
People with lived experience of madness, crisis, distress, extreme/altered states, psychiatrization, 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 questions about the group + sign up to receive the zoom link, email nzeo@soarcms.org or call (608) 886-9735.

07/04/2025

This Fourth of July, we’re holding space for what freedom means—especially in uncertain times.

For many, this holiday feels complicated. Amid uncertainty, we want you to know: it’s okay to feel heavy. You’re not alone.

At Solstice House, we remain committed to walking beside you—with care, dignity, and support that centers your humanity. Freedom can be many things: safety, rest, connection, healing. You deserve all of them.

Take gentle care of yourself this week.

06/24/2025

🌈 Q***r Alternatives to Su***de 🌈
Join us this afternoon for the Q***r Alternatives to Su***de group — a brave, affirming space for LGBTQIA+ folks to share, connect, and explore life beyond crisis. 💜
🗓️ Today - 4:30-6pm
📍 Located at the OutReach LGBTQ Community Center - Suite 104
✨ You are not alone. Come as you are.
👉🏾 Sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/ALT2SUSH
📣 Please share with folks who might be interested!
Collaboration between Solstice House and OutReach LGBTQ Community Center

06/19/2025

Today we honor Juneteenth — a day of freedom, reflection, and resilience.
We hold space for the healing journey, especially for Black communities whose strength continues to inspire us.

At SOAR, we believe mental health is part of true freedom. You deserve care, rest, and support.

🖤 With love,
SOAR Case Management Services
Solstice House

06/10/2025

🌈 Solstice House Peer Respite at Pride Night! 🌈

We’re thrilled to share that Solstice House Peer Respite will be tabling at this year’s Pride Night at Henry Vilas Zoo on Saturday, June 14th — and we’re proud to be sponsoring a special prize for the event! 🏆✨

This evening is all about celebrating LGBTQIA+ pride, joy, and community, and we’re honored to be part of it.

Stop by to say hello, connect with us, and enjoy a night full of color, connection, and fun! 🦓💬🌙

🎟 Grab your tickets here: https://tinyurl.com/bdcsbx9t

📍 Event Details:

Location: Henry Vilas Zoo – 702 S. Randall Ave, Madison, WI
Gates open: 5:30 p.m.
Final drag performances: 8:00 p.m.
Event ends: 9:00 p.m.

🚗 Pro tip: Carpool if you can! It’s a busy night and parking fills up fast.

We can’t wait to see your smiling faces out in the community! 💛🧡❤️💚💙💜

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