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February 2024 by joshalynne renee
Most of the staff is friendly. I watched an incident happen close to closing time that very much concerned me. A woman who I had been talking to,who was going through a tough day, had her belongings stowed away unbeknownst to her by another patron had a panic attack which turned into a stress seizure because she didn't know what had happened to her things. She sat down and was babbling and was incoherent and a staff member rushed over to her and told her to lie down and she complied, the staff member then started screaming that she was overdosing. (That's not how overdoses go) she proceeded to call 911 after she gave her narcan twice and proceeded to give her chest compressions.(none of which was necessary because she didn't overdose and she wasn't blue or not breathing she was even still responding to her when she was talking to her, none of that signals her to do what she did) the cops came and she was lying on the chairs and they went off of the staff saying she overdosed gave her a 3rd narcan as this woman started telling the cop that she didn't take anything to make her overdose all the meanwhile before all that happened someone mentioned that there was someone who had been in the bathroom for quite a while and who hadnt came out yet this person didn't get checked on until the ambulance arrived and when they opened the door there was a person who had been unattended to who was in fact experiencing an overdose. Thank God that person in the bathroom made it. People need to be better educated on first aid and when to use narcan. You can seriously injure someone who doesn't need CPR or narcan by doing it poorly and incorrectly as well as make someone sick who doesn't need narcan.. if you don't know what you're doing then don't do it. Call 911 leave it to people who know what and importantly when to do life saving measures.
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February 2024 by Jonathan Sass
This place helps out people in a transition for housing. It's not the best place in the world of course. But again it helps out a lot of people what a wonderful volunteer staff
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January 2024 by Mike Hawk
Complete waste of all resources on all levels in every single way.
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December 2023 by Meleika Jones
Very helpful
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November 2023 by Brenda Graun
When I first got here I would’ve given it 5 stars. I’m expecting a child and I stay to myself in the family room. I get they have a time of when things shut down for the day but I’m still in my first trimester and sick on top of morning sickness. I feel like they don’t care if I defecate on myself or puke all over their floor. I’m just supposed to get out when they say. Instead of combating homelessness, they would rather combat the homeless. I hope things change soon because the way I plan on helping people after I get my things in order, I promise it’ll be nothing like what people have to deal with now.Edit to add: they say they close at 5 and they kick everyone out and ban people before 5. Find a different day shelter and save yourself the trouble. They seem to only care about themselves at this point. It’s sad when other shelters say this one is a bad one. Tons of drama, drugs and alcohol anyways.
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November 2023 by carolyn morris
I heard this place has dogs in it!! Is it true they let people bring their pets in with them??? If so !!! Very unsafe! Im gonna look into this!! With the bbi!!!
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September 2023 by First name Last name
From what I heard as of late , people ask about their mail and don't receive it for months, pileing up in the backroom , my buddy had to ask the only decent person there to check , he gave my friend a huge stack of mail , for months he's been asking , could missed court dates , staff neglect their duty's, verbally chastise the less fortunate , on top of playing gate keeper while leading people on with the carrot of a better life , seen people doing better once they stop going.
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September 2023 by Tim Oz
When asked for help with something having an upcoming deadline only 3 hours away, they said leave a message and they'd get back to me within 72 hours... not particularly helpful in the circumstances... admittedly, I should have gotten in on the program much sooner but I didn't know about it until I heard about it...
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July 2023 by Daniel Campbell
They serve hot, breakfast, hot lunch, they have laundry services, bathrooms, public phone, inside storage and outside storage available. The building is too small for the amount of people that go there. People bring in alcohol, drugs, vaping and fighting. I feel that staff tries their best to help people and to make the place better. Staff is not given many resources or opportunities to help the people there.
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April 2023 by Usamah Smiri
It's March 2023 right now, 3 years since COVID started (in late 2019/early 2020), and the Beacon still forces their guests to wear masks. If they see you without a mask on, they'll give you a few warnings (number of warnings depends on their mood that day) and then kick you out for the day if they catch you after the final warning. It's been 3 years, and on top of that, everybody who wanted to get a vaccine has gotten their vaccines and boosters FOR FREE, and now the only places in Madison that force people to wear masks are 1. Hospitals and 2. Homeless shelters . . . Obviously because if you're in a hospital or a homeless shelter, then you need them more than they need you, so you can't say anything about how unreasonable they're being. I'm guessing that the majority of staff and volunteers at the Beacon probably do not wear masks while they're grocery shopping, so I don't know they're pretending like COVID is still a problem.
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April 2023 by zakariyah salahadyn
Oh yeah I know everywhere to go you can go hang out with the bums too
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March 2023 by Vernon Lyles
This place is A Start for people who need support!!!! It gets kind of messy with the different characters that be in there but for the most part it's the place that has resources, they have different programs you could sign up for & they feed u also.... GO CHECK THEN OUT
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February 2023 by Thomas Anderson
Laundry.....AWESOME!!! Thank you..
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December 2022 by Jeananne Bruner
Catholic Charities Day shelter for people in transition with resources to the community. Daily meals and lockers, also showers.Constant law enforcement presence. Must register for services
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December 2022 by Crash “Crash Fergie” Fergie
Someone ought to give all these poor people a bunch of money and a house for each person and they will never be in that position again right? Or just give it to me and I won't ever have to go there. Reminds me of a nuthouse.
