sonder was coined by John Koenig and refers to the profound realization that every person we pass is living a life as vivid, complex, and layered as our own.

Care That Accompanies. Change That Lasts.

What We Do

We cultivate culturally responsive pathways to mental wellness and recovery for individuals and families across Wisconsin.

Our team delivers a unique blend of mental health and substance use services, while intentionally centering Black mental health, affirming LGBTQIA+ communities, and honoring the cultural identities of diverse families. Our multigenerational, multicultural team brings lived experience across race, age, and background—ensuring that care feels representative, responsive, and rooted in community.

Why Sondercove

Our diverse and unique team, in Madison, grounded by lived experience, offers mental health support, crisis stabilization services, case management, wraparound services, youth peer support, parent peer support, and recovery support for individuals navigating trauma, substance use, justice involvement, and systemic harm. We provide services through Comprehensive Community Services (CCS) while also offering community-based support beyond the CCS program through Sondercove Foundation ensuring access care without unnecessary barriers.

Wellness Center and Peer Support

Youth & Family Peer Support

We provide youth peer mentorship and parent peer navigation services designed to reduce school disruptions, strengthen family stability, and prevent crisis escalation.

Our CCS services support recovery planning, behavioral stabilization, and family-centered coordination while protecting dignity and autonomy.

Peer-Led Evidence & Outcomes

Sondercove provides peer-led mental health and substance use support grounded in lived experience and measurable impact in Dane County.

Our model strengthens protective factors, reduces emergency room reliance, and expands access to culturally responsive care within Medicaid-funded community mental health services.

Community-Based Mental Health Services

We deliver community-based mental health and substance use support in homes, schools, and neighborhoods across Madison, Dane County, and surrounding Wisconsin communities.

Through certified peer and parent peer specialists, service facilitation, and psychosocial rehabilitation services, we meet participants where they are.

Recovery & Harm Reduction

Sondercove offers recovery-focused peer support for individuals navigating substance use challenges, including post-hospital transition, harm reduction planning, and community reintegration.

Our approach expands access to recovery without shame and strengthens long-term stability within Wisconsin’s mental health framework.

Our mission is guided by belonging, dignity, equity, collective care, and hope. We center lived experience as leadership and believe peer specialist principles and values is essential to building lasting mental health and substance use recovery.

We work in partnership with individuals and families to strengthen autonomy, reduce reliance on crisis systems, and expand access to culturally responsive, community-based care. We stand alongside communities that have been marginalized or underserved, ensuring their full participation, voice, and stability.

At Sondercove, hope is protected, nurtured, and sustained in community, no prescribed.