by Kim North | Mar 4, 2020 | Events, News
Thank you to the Albuquerque Police Department Cadet Class 121 Team 1! This group spent a Saturday morning doing a deep clean of the Albuquerque Opportunity Center and our outreach vans. We appreciate you and your willingness to help while learning about homelessness...
by Kim North | Mar 4, 2020 | Events, News
Thank you to this incredible group of volunteers who threw a special Valentine’s Day party for our Albuquerque Opportunity Center guests. The handmade valentines and homemade desserts were amazing! We’re grateful to Heart to Heart for sharing some love with us! If...
by Katie Knipe | Feb 7, 2020 | Events, News
Each year Heading Home participates in Lobby Day, a day when homeless service providers engage their representatives about systemic needs for addressing homelessness statewide. On January 28, a few of our staff members and friends from New Mexico Coalition to End...
by Katie Knipe | Feb 3, 2020 | Events, News
Justin is a client with ABQ StreetConnect (ABQSC), Heading Home’s prioritized street outreach program. Before he began working with Heading Home, Justin was experiencing homelessness and didn’t have access to shelter, let alone a phone or any commodities. ABQSC was a...
by Katie Knipe | Feb 3, 2020 | Events, News
Having access to haircuts and grooming services is important to our shelter guests and A Better U Barber/Beauty Academy understands it’s important to look good for job interviews, school and self-esteem. Heading Home has been fortune to have developed a partnership...
by Katie Knipe | Jan 30, 2020 | Events, News
Heading Home works with Albuquerque Fire Rescue to provide CPR and lifesaving skills training so our team can step in when one of our Emergency Shelter guests is experiencing a medical emergency. Yesterday, AFR led a CPR training with the Westside Emergency Housing...
by Katie Knipe | Jan 22, 2020 | Events, News
On January 20, 2020, a group of students from Salesianum School in Wilmington, DE visited Heading Home’s Albuquerque Opportunity Center to help us clean and facilitate Bingo with our Respite Care Program guests. Thank you for making volunteerism part of your...
by Katie Knipe | Jan 20, 2020 | Events, News
On January 10, 2020, our CEO Dennis Plummer and Emergency Housing Program Director Carlos Sanchez visited the KRQE This Morning Show set where they explained how Heading Home offers prioritized street outreach, emergency housing and permanent supportive housing to...
by Katie Knipe | Jan 13, 2020 | Events, News
We are honored and excited to announce that Heading Home been chosen to participate in a specialcharitable giving campaign, sponsored and funded by Target. And you have the chance to helpdirect a portion of Target’s donation to us! Now through March 31, vote for us...
by Katie Knipe | Jan 2, 2020 | Events, News
We are grateful to Grace United Methodist Church for serving a delicious homemade meal on New Year’s Day to the guests at AOC! They set up a sandwich bar and brought over 20 homemade soups and stews for AOC guests to enjoy. The AOC’s community room was...
