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Resources
Student and Family Resources
Homelessness
Please reach out if you find yourself experiencing any listed hardships to Ms. Audra Hays - SAMS School Social Worker.
Ms. Audra Hays, LMSW | (505)604-6441 ext #109 | ahays@samsacademy.com
Students Experiencing Homelessness and Unaccompanied Youth
Who are Children and Youth experiencing homelessness?
The term includes:
Children and Youth who are:
- Sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason (sometimes referred to “doubled up”)
- Living in motels, hotels, Trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations;
- Living in emergency or transitional shelters; or
- Are abandoned in hospitals.
Children and youth who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings;
Children and Youth who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings; and
Migratory children who qualify as homeless for the purpose of this subtitle because the children are living in circumstances described above.
Educational Rights of Students/Families
- Be immediately enrolled in school even if you do not have necessary paperwork or missed enrolment deadlines.
- Receive a free, appropriate public education.
- Attend the local attendance area school or the school of origin, with the placement decision based on the student’s best interest, giving priority to the students requested.
- Receive educational services including, but not limited to, special educations services for English Learners, career and technical educations, after school programs at no cost.
- Receive educational services comparable to those provided to other students, according to each student’s needs.
- Participation in extra-curricular activities such as clubs and athletics.
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Resources:
- United Way Resource Help Line: Call 211
- Local Food Pantry Lists
- Roadrunner Food Bank https://www.rrfb.org/
- The Store House of NM https://storehousenm.org/
- Rio Grande Food Project https://www.rgfp.org/
- SE Heights Food Pantry 417 Palomas Dr. SE | 505-256-1682
- East Central Food Pantry 7525 Zuni SE ABQ, NM 87108 | 505-767-5700
- Monday, Wednesday, & Friday: 10 a.m. - 12pm/ Tuesday & Thursday: 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
- Gods Warehouse Food Pantry http://www.godswarehouses.com/ | 8011 Central Ave. NE Albuquerque, NM | 505-234-4251
- Full Food Pantry List of ABQ AREA https://www.foodpantries.org/ci/nm-albuquerque
Housing and Medical Support
- MFA/Housing New Mexico https://housingnm.org/
- HealthCare for The Homeless https://abqhch.org/
- HopeWorks https://www.hopeworksnm.org/
- Heading Home https://headinghome.org/
- First Nations https://www.fnch.org/
- New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness https://nmceh.org/
Local Shelters
- Amistad 1706 El Centro Familiar Blvd SW, Albuquerque, NM 87105 | (505) 877-0371
- New Day https://www.ydinm.org/ | 2820 Ridgecrest Dr SE, Albuquerque, NM 87108 | (505) 938-1060
- Barrett Foundation https://www.barrettfoundation.org/ | 505) 246-9244
- SAFE House NM https://www.safehousenm.org/ | (505) 247-4219
- Joy Junction https://www.joyjunction.org/
- Westside Shelter
- Pick-up and Drop-off Location and Times
|
Location |
Pick Up Times |
Drop Off Times |
|
Coronado Park |
Sunday - Saturday: 2 p.m., 3 p.m., 4 p.m., 5 p.m., 6 p.m., 7 p.m. |
Sunday-Saturday: 7 a.m., 8 a.m., 9 a.m., 10 a.m. |
|
Hope Works Day Shelter |
Monday-Friday: 3:45 p.m. |
Monday-Friday: 9 a.m., 10 a.m. |
|
God's Warehouse |
Sunday - Saturday: 6:30 p.m. |
Sunday-Saturday: 8 a.m. |
|
Steelbridge*** |
Sunday - Saturday: 2 p.m., 3 p.m., 4 p.m. |
Monday-Friday: 7 a.m., 8 a.m., 9 a.m., 10 a.m |
|
First Nations Community Healthsources |
Sunday-Saturday: 6:00 p.m. |
Sunday-Saturday: After the God's Warehouse drop off. |
ABQ City Shelter Information https://www.cabq.gov/family/services/homeless-services
PED Support
New Mexico Public Education Department: Teacher and Family Outreach http://webnew.ped.state.nm.us/bureaus/teacher- family-outreach/
National Center for Homeless Education (NCHE)
NCHE helpline 1-800-308-2145 or homeless@serve.org
More information is available at: https://nche.ed.gov
New Mexico Public Education Department: Teacher and Family Outreach http://webnew.ped.state.nm.us/bureaus/teacher- family-outreach/
Eviction Prevention Support
https://www.cabq.gov/family/services/homeless-services/eviction-prevention