Coming Home Connection’s mission is to serve the local community by providing free access to trained volunteers to assist as supportive medical care assistants for in-home hospice, long term care and as needed to fill in the gaps for both children and the aging of our community. Coming Home Connection also acts as a community network for professional home health care givers and community services.

The volunteer caregivers are trained in patient bed care from changing beds, bedpans and bathing as well as to encourage the patient and family to follow doctor’s orders for such things as their medication. They are trained to be sensitive to patient and family spiritual and emotional issues.

Coming Home Connection was founded by Glenys Carl who has been involved in end of life and long-term care for adults and children for the past fifteen years. She cared for many of the AIDS patients in Santa Fe, New Mexico in the early and mid 1990’s as well as patients with Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and head injuries. She is a published author of Hold My Hand, an autobiography of caring for her son Scott and organizing and training over 400 volunteers in two countries for his care during a four year period.