Heading Home Advocates for Statewide SOAR Funding
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...
Justin Moves from the Streets to Affordable Housing
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...
A Better U Gives Haircuts at Emergency Shelters
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...
Albuquerque Fire Rescue Recognizes WEHC Staff
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...
Salesianum School Spends MLK Day Serving at AOC
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...
Heading Home Programs Featured on KRQE Morning Show
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...
Support Heading Home through Target Circle Giving Campaign
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...
Grace United Methodist Rings in the New Year with Heading Home
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...
12 Years and Counting! Compassionate Diaspora Serves Christmas Dinner at AOC
“These folks are the most generous, kind, thoughtful people I’ve ever met in my life,” said Karen P. about the Compassionate Diaspora volunteer group. We are so grateful to this wonderful volunteer group for serving a Christmas Meal at the Albuquerque Opportunity...Facebook Posts
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Starting next Monday, Heading Home's ABQ StreetConnect will be offering free group therapy sessions for our StreetConnect Clients.![]()
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The carefree days of summer are not so easy for children and families experiencing homelessness. Did you know Heading Home serves over 450 children a year at our shelters and housing programs? Help us make a difference. Visit headinghome.org/donate today.
Heading Home is pleased to announce Ms. Connie Chavez has joined the organization as the new Chief Executive Officer. Connie, born and raised in Albuquerque, brings with her a wealth of knowledge from her lifelong efforts to enhance services for the underprivileged/underserved communities in Albuquerque. Connie's history of community service includes her work as Executive Director of the Barrett Foundation, Sawmill Community Land Trust, and the Carrie Tingley Hospital Foundation.![]()
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Currently, Connie serves as Vice Chair of the Bernalillo County Planning Commission and has been a member of several local and national nonprofit Board of Directors.![]()
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Please join us in welcoming Connie to Heading Home as she works to fulfill the agency's mission as an innovative, collaborative leader in the community addressing homelessness.
