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APD Police Cadets Volunteer at AOC

APD Police Cadets Volunteer at AOC

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...

Volunteers Organize Valentine’s Day Party at AOC

Volunteers Organize Valentine’s Day Party at AOC

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...

Heading Home Advocates for Statewide SOAR Funding

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 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

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

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

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 trip to...

Heading Home Programs Featured on KRQE Morning Show

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

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

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 overflowing...

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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.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.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. ... See MoreSee Less
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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. ... See MoreSee Less
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Heading Home NM
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.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.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. ... See MoreSee Less
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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.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.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. ... See MoreSee Less
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