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!
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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7/11/2025
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Recent Episodes
August 20, 2025
Anemoni Peer Repsite, Part 1: The Origin Story
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 Ephraim Akiva who came up for the vision of Anemoni and now serves as its Director. Ephraim will talk about where the idea came from as it relates to both his personal and work life, as well as how another peer-run organization stepped in and almost derailed the entire process. He will also share the emotional story of Edith Goldberg in whose honor 'Anemoni' is named. Additionally, we will hear from Thomas Brown (Advocate for the Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee [MHLAC]) and Sarah Yousuf (former Senior Supervising Attorney at MHLAC) who partnered with Ephraim and others at Wildflower to introduce peer respite legislation that may help bring even more peer respites (both affinity and general) to the Commonwealth in the years to come.
August 11, 2025
Porchlight Vigil, Episode 2: The Executive Order
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 also encourages sharing of protected health information with the police and decimates support for Housing First and harm reduction approaches overall, further broadening the range of people likely to be harmed. On this second episode of Porchlight Vigil, host Earl Miller welcomes two guests: Luke Sikinyi, Vice President of Public Policy at The Alliance for Rights and Recovery, and Sera Davidow, Director of Wildflower Alliance, who will be stepping out of her usual host role with What’s Blooming with the Wildflower Alliance to join in on the conversation. Together, they talk about the risks of the Order - and of dehumanization of marginalized communities overall - as well what still leaves them hopeful for something better in the future.
August 5, 2025
Afiya Peer Respite: 13 Years of Learning
Join host Earl and Sera for this first episode in a 3-part series on peer respite, an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization that is having big impact on the lives of people who work and stay there.
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