For low-income New Mexican families, affordable housing is already Out of Reach. The National Low Income Housing Coalition just released their 2024 Out of Reach report. Published annually, the Out of Reach report highlights the...
Q: What is Housing First anyways?A: Housing First is the most effective approach to ending homelessness. Housing First is a bipartisan, evidence-based strategy that provides people experiencing homelessness with stable, affordable housing quickly and without prerequisites. Housing First...
Data Collection holds us accountable to our clients, our community, and to you. According to the 2023 Point in Time Count Report, homelessness in Albuquerque has grown by 83% in just one year. Due to several...
Outreach Director: Matthew Frahm Q: Your position is new and was born out of AHCH’s commitment to Outreach. What else is AHCH doing to invest in outreach? When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, AHCH as a...
Outreach is central to what we do. And at AHCH we do outreach a little bit differently. After the pandemic, homelessness has nearly doubled in Albuquerque, in just one year! Yet the demand for healthcare...
The daily lives of people experiencing homelessness are stressful, dangerous, traumatic, and often take a toll on their mental health. The trauma of homelessness may exacerbate previous mental illness and encourage anxiety, fear, depression, sleeplessness,...
As a Federally Qualified Health Center, AHCH and our peers across the country are fortunate to have fabulous and accessible support from the leadership at the Bureau of Primary Health Care, part of the US...
Last week, AHCH’s CEO, Jennifer Metzler, was invited to a Round Table discussion about homelessness in Albuquerque facilitated by KUNM News Director Megan Kamerick for New Mexico in Focus. During the discussion, AHCH stood firmly...
Christina Hope came to Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless a few years ago, hoping to reunite with her daughter and grandchildren but was faced with several barriers. Instead of giving up and going back...