For over ten years Coming Home Connection has been serving the people of Santa Fe and its surrounds with skilled and heartful in-home care. Our unique non-profit model offers affordable in-home care from trained and vetted private caregivers to those who can afford to pay something, without the additional cost of an agency fee, and each caregiver offers volunteer time to provide free services to those most in need in our community.
Coming Home Connection provides care in the home for families and their loved ones during illness, old age, and at the end of life. Inevitably, our compassionate caregivers have to say goodbye to many clients they have come to love. To celebrate their kindness and generosity, to give them, their client' families and the wider community an opportunity to remember those who have passed, and to raise much needed funds, we are holding a DIA DE LOS MUERTOS Fiesta in the wonderful tradition of our Mexican-heritage friends and neighbors.
The Aztec roots of Dia de los Muertos add a rich flavor to the Christian festivals of All Hallows, All Saints and All Souls, the time of the year when the boundary between the world of the living and the world of the departed is at its most transparent. It is a playful festival when those who have passed are lovingly remembered. Central to the celebration is the creation of cheerfully decorated shrines ("ofrendas") that hold photographs and memorabilia of those who have passed away. We invite you to bring photographs and mementos of your dear ones.
Please call the office for tickets ($35/$10 for Coming Home Connection caregivers) or to volunteer: 505-988-2468.
* Note this is not a costume party - although we may have a face-painter to help you get your calavera on!
Thank you for your donations for a client that is in great need of care, who has no health insurance and the family struggles to provide. Also for the fast response on our last case to get him care, as he was just not able to get him care. No other agency can respond that quickly.
~ Bobbette Salazar, Adult Protective Services
Coming Home Connection offers all levels of non-medical in-home care. We strive to make good matches between clients and caregivers, as needs, skills and personalities vary.
We match trained VOLUNTEER ‘FRIENDS’ to work with people who have dementia, to allow family or other primary caregivers regular time off from the demands of looking after a loved one with dementia.
A free service, loaning out donated medical equipment such as wheelchairs, transfer chairs, walkers, disposable underwear, surgical gloves and other items when no longer needed.
“We watched with admiration at the care and concern that each and every caregiver provided. Their soft voices and loving hands helped him go gracefully and with dignity into the next world.”
Your donation enables the CHC office to recruit, train and place volunteers to help those in those most in need in our community, and supports the low-cost in-home care service.
Monthly pledges are a truly stabilizing form of donation which helps us best plan our services.
You may also mail a check, donate stock, automobiles, etc. Please call the office:
(505) 988 2468 for more details.
All donations to Coming Home Connection, Inc. are tax deductible.
THE GLENYS CARL LEGACY CIRCLE
A planned gift in the form of a bequest may be the single largest donation you make to a charity. These legacy donations are fundamental to the stability and ongoing existence of CHC, and help us make a sustained difference in the community. If you are thinking about remembering CHC in your will and would like to request an information packet or to speak with someone about making a bequest, please call the office: (505) 988 2468. Join the Glenys Carl Legacy Circle today, and make your gift a lasting one.
IN MEMORY OF AND IN HONOR OF
Donations can be made to honor someone loved and respected, or in memory of someone in your life who has passed away.
OTHER WAYS
Auctions are a good time to donate something with special appeal. Cars and boats can be donated for the benefit of CHC. Pro-bono services are sometimes needed. If you are interested in contributing in some way, talk to us!
VOLUNTEER
Volunteering is the HEART of CHC. Every caregiver, even if they take paid cases, also volunteers because we believe in giving back to our community and because we enjoy it. This is the way we help those who otherwise have no one to turn to. All of our volunteers receive the same training, and attend to the same types of ailments that paid caregivers do. Volunteering can be done in the way that it suits you: your schedule, your abilities, your skills and abilities.
WHY VOLUNTEER?
Demographics make it obvious that more and more people aging are going to be needing more help, and many will not have money to pay.
- If you are young, volunteering is a great way to personal growth, learning skills, building your professional credibility, and expressing your values.
- If you have your own limitations, volunteering can be a way to remember that there is still a lot you have to offer (maybe you cannot lift someone, but you can still give them a ride).
- If you are retired, volunteering is a great way to give what you may one day need yourself.
- If you are busy, volunteering is a good way to change focus and get your mind off your own business.
Volunteers are needed in all types: men, women, people of all ages, people with all types of interests and enthusiasms. CHC is part of a growing volunteer culture that finds volunteering can be a new social network based on values: generosity, good will, sacrifice, commonalities among people, and many others.
At CHC we support the high standards of our caregiving services and support our caregivers by offering crucial trainings. All caregivers, paid or volunteer, receive the same training. The initial training required gives new caregivers basic skills and supports better placement with clients. Ongoing trainings offer more depth in certain areas, such as dementia, infectious disease, etc.
Your donation is tax-deductible
Your donation enables the CHC office to recruit, train and place volunteers to help those in those most in need in our community, and supports the low-cost in-home care service.
info@cominghomeconnection.org
Call (505) 988 2468
Fax (505) 988 2595
COMING HOME CONNECTION
Design Center Santa Fe
418 Cerrillos Rd #27
Santa Fe, NM 87501
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Coming Home Connection is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Your gift is tax-deductible to the full extent of the law