The Wildflower Alliance

What’s Blooming with the Wildflower Alliance

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Join the Wildflower Alliance for all things under the sun that intersect with the psychiatric and other systems, rights, justice, harm reduction and our lives as we want to live them. Wildflower is a training and peer support organization that centers harm reduction and stands against force and coercion. Join the conversation and be a part of changing the world!

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Anemoni Peer Repsite, Part 1: The Origin Story 20.08.2025 1:12:57

August is the month of peer respites for 'What's Blooming with the Wildflower Alliance'. On August 4th, we released our first episode in the series on Afiya Peer Respite. Today, we release part 2 of the peer respite series on Anemoni Peer Respite... EXCEPT that part 2 has itself turned into two parts! We're calling part one of part 2 'Anemoni: The Origin Story. This episode, we will hear from Ephr...

Porchlight Vigil, Episode 2: The Executive Order 11.08.2025 43:02

On Thursday, July 24, 2025, the Trump administration released an Executive Order called “ Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets ”. This order directly threatens unhoused people, people with psychiatric histories and people who use drugs with significantly loosened restrictions on when they can lose their liberty and be sent to facilities where they could be contained long-term. The order...

Afiya Peer Respite: 13 Years of Learning 05.08.2025 1:08:47

This episode marks the start of a 3-part series on peer respites beginning with Afiya peer respite. Afiya was the 13th peer respite to open in the United States on August 4, 2012. Today's episode is published in honor of Afiya's 13th birthday! In this episode, we'll hear from Caroline, Emanuel, Uno, Cindy, Rob and Tokyo - all who have stayed or worked at Afiya (and sometimes, both!). You'll hear...

Porchlight Vigil, Episode 1: You Was Who You Was Before You Got Here 25.07.2025 14:20

This episode marks the introduction of Wildflower Alliance podcast sub-threads, featuring particular hosts with specific areas of focus. Porchlight Vigil is a sub-thread featuring host, Earl Miller, and focused on policing alternatives and carceral systems overall. In this brief, 13-minute introductory episode, Earl talks about his vision for this sub-thread, why the name 'Porchlight Vigil' is so...

Whistleblowing & Restraints at Worcester State Hospital 11.07.2025 1:16:34

Join us for our very first podcast episode ever with hosts Earl Miller & Sera Davidow and special guests John Trask, Chris Hansen and Rob Wipond. On June 18, 2025, WGBH reporter Alexi Cohan published a story of misuse of restraints at Worcester State Hospital . The story revealed how John Trask singlehandedly unearthed data that suggests the hospital may have held patients for thousands of hou...