Staying at Detroit Peer Respite

If you are interested in staying at the respite, please complete the Guest Interest Form. If you are selected, we will be in touch about next steps.

DPR is a peer-led respite in a home stay setting for up to one week. We are here for folks experiencing mental health, emotional, trauma, or substance and/or addiction-related struggles. As a guest of DPR you define what it means to be in crisis, and you define what types of support you receive.

We are a collective of Detroit-area care workers. Most of us are queer and/or trans, and women and/or femmes. All of us identify with lived experience of mental health struggle, and most of us are psychiatric survivors, meaning we’ve been harmed by the mental healthcare systems. We don’t want to treat, diagnose, or fix anyone — we want to, like, actually support people in crisis.

Staying at the Respite

Our stays are one week (seven days) with breaks in between. We can only accommodate one person at a time. If you sign up and are selected for a stay, we will call you to let you know when there is a spot available and attempt to reach you for 24 hours before we call the next person on the waiting list.

Stays at DPR are:

  • Up to 1 week. You can leave when you want.
  • 100% voluntary and consensual. No forced anything.
  • Supportive. There will always be someone there to help.
  • COVID conscious. We adhere to a testing schedule, masking is practiced in shared areas of the house, and air filters are running at all times.

During your stay we promise:

  • You will be the only DPR guest at the respite.
  • Your autonomy, decisions, and preferences will be respected to the best of our ability.
  • Your basic needs will be met.
  • You will have your own private space for sleeping and hanging out.
  • You can have visitors. They’ll need to mask and no more than 3 at a time.
  • You can come and go freely.
  • You will have the option to be part of every conversation about your experience.

Limitations and Boundaries

  • Guests must be 18 years old or older
  • We are not able to work with people who are actively detoxing from drugs or alcohol.
  • We are not able to hold or handle medications.
  • We are not able to accommodate stays longer than seven nights.
  • We do not offer any clinical supports such as therapy or psychiatric services.
  • Our ability to offer transportation is limited by budget and time.

Guests agree to:

  • Not bring alcohol or weapons into the respite
  • Not disclose who else is staying there.
  • Not attempt to date or be intimate with the host of the respite, respite organizers, or peer support workers at the respite
  • Follow COVID guidelines including wearing masks in common areas of the respite (provided)

When a guest joins the peer respite, they are consenting to receive life saving care.