About Heading Home
Heading Home is a New Mexico non-profit that provides shelter and housing services to people experiencing homelessness. We work to make experiences of homelessness as rare, short-lived and nonrecurring in our community. We fulfill this vision through serving as a unified voice of advocacy, prevention and service; we are an innovative convener, collaborator and educator about homelessness in the community. We are dedicated to serving those most in need in New Mexico by providing emergency and permanent supportive housing with access to wrap around services. Our programs serve families, women, men & veterans. Heading Home operates two shelters – the Albuquerque Opportunity Center and the Westside Emergency Housing Center. We run a medical respite program which provides 24-hour care to men recently released from the hospital who do not have a home. Our signature Housing First program, Albuquerque Heading Home, has housed hundreds of medically vulnerable, chronically homeless individuals since 2011. Our programs for families provide rental assistance and permanent supportive housing and case management. All of our programs assist veterans in exiting homelessness into permanent supportive housing. We utilize the Housing First, Collective Impact and Harm Reduction models to provide life-saving services to some of the most vulnerable members of our community.
Leadership at Heading Home
The team at the top of the org chart.
Connie Chavez
Chief
Debbie Brickman
Chief Financial Officer
Arias Foster
Program Director
Bug Carlson
Program Director
1 report
Donna Lentsch
Program Director
Jesse Hugg
Operations Manager
Kat Sotelo
Program Director
Melissa Kaminsky
Director Of Operations
Susan E. Wells
Program Director
1 report
Melissa K.
Director Of Operations
Dorothee Otero
Housing
Rosangela Moreira Williams
Program Manager - Placement And Stabilization