Connection is Prevention
Welcome to the Community Living Room!
The Community Living Room is grounded in the present, offering a healing space for people to be seen, heard, and valued just as they are.
The Community Living Room is focused on present-moment connection and support.
What is Community Living Room?
In a special presentation by Wisconsin Medical College, Community Living Room is featured as a solution to the social loneliness and isolation epidemic. Watch this short film to learn more.
Calendar View of Upcoming Community Living Rooms
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STARTING NOVEMBER 15th!
When we connect with someone else, we can make changes, shift our pain, and feel seen and heard. Connection is what has made the Community Living Room such a special space, whether in our Appleton space or in the pop-up CLRs in the surrounding areas of Oshkosh, Chilton, and Brillion. We bring this same warmth and welcome to our Warmline.
You may have heard of crisis lines. This is a bit different. Our trained listeners are peers with lived experience who answer phone calls. But they don’t pretend to have answers to ‘fix’ you. Our vision is to simply listen and be here for you.
Conversations are completely confidential! You are free to express yourself and the struggles you may be experiencing with your mental health, loneliness, and/or substance use without the fear of being judged, given advice, or being reported on. We truly believe that YOU are the master of your life! We hold that every person is creative, resourceful, and WHOLE! And at the same time, WE NEED ONE ANOTHER to get through some tough times.
SO pick up your phone and give our trained listeners, with their own mental health and substance use experiences, a call!
STARTING NOVEMBER 15th!
CALL: 920-241-8084
Available every day from 5 pm to 9 pm.
Please keep in mind that this is a pilot program, so we are starting with one phone listener per evening. This means you may have to wait in a queue. Our hope is to retain additional funding to expand our program to multiple listeners and hours. Also, this is all new for many of us. We appreciate your patience as we work out any kinks we may encounter and learn and grow together.
We CAN’T WAIT to connect with you! Please give us a call on or after Nov. 15th!
Please share your experience with Community Living Room!
If you have visited the Community Living Room and/or been a listener, we could use your help! We’d love your feedback on how the Community Living Room made you feel and impacted you.
Please fill out a survey and let us know. Your feedback will help us secure grants and offer additional Community Living Room dates and times. Your name and email are optional and will not be shared with anyone without your consent.
We appreciate you so much! ❤️
Small connection, big impact.
Imagine waking up to a kind message from someone who cares about you. 🤍 If that sounds like something you could really go for, join our Morning Moments of Connection text list and receive uplifting, heart felt, thought provoking, and set-you-up-for-joy-all-day messages right to your phone.
“To be at home is to be known. It is to be loved for who you are.”
― Vivek H. Murthy, Together: Why Social Connection Holds the Key to Better Health, Higher Performance, and Greater Happiness
