Welcome

Coming Home Connection trains, places and coordinates volunteers to provide free in-home care and personal support to the most at-risk and vulnerable populations in our community including the elderly, the uninsured, low-income adults, children, military veterans with special needs and their immediate families who have fallen through the gaps in the healthcare delivery system.

Our goal is to honor the privacy and dignity of each care recipient we serve and to enhance the quality of life for all those in need of care, regardless of their ability to pay.  As a local, community-based volunteer organization we seek to empower each community through our own example, and provide a vehicle through which communities can pass on the gift of care to all those less fortunate.

Our focus is on end-of-life and palliative care, AIDS-HIV, cancer, post-operative recovery, traumatic brain injury, long-term illness, long-term disability and care for those in need of physical rehabilitation.

Since 2007, Coming Home Connection has trained over 250 volunteers from all walks of life, including many high school and community college students.  Coming Home Connection is a registered 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation.  We are wholly supported by grants and private donations for our support.

Our local funding partners include Ambercare Corporation, Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico, Christus St. Vincent Community Benefit Fund, Coker Foundation, Community Care Network, Con Alma Health Foundation, The Daniels Fund, Kirk Dormeyer, the Estate of Bruce Newman, Foundation for Hospice Care, Grace and John T. Harrington Foundation, McCune Charitable Foundation, New Mexico Community Foundation, Presbyterian Medical Services, St. Vincent’s Hospital Foundation, Turn and Return Fund, De Jong Fund, Infinite Possibilities Fund, Still Point Foundation, the Melville Hankins Foundation, Vanessie of Santa Fe, David K. Brooks, Doug Lawrence, Sydney & Andrew Davis Foundation, United Way of Santa Fe County, plus approximately 350 individuals who contributed small donations of over $60,000 in 2010.

The founder and Executive Director of Coming Home Connection is Glenys Carl who has been involved in hospice, palliative and long term care nursing for nearly 20 years.