Healing Homelessness: Mind, Body, and Spirit

Healing Homelessness: Mind, Body, and Spirit

Healing Homelessness: Mind, Body, and Spirit

HopeWorks Core Leadership Team

Healing Homelessness: Mind, Body, and Spirit

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HopeWorks Core Leadership Team
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HopeWorks is one of the largest homeless service providers in New Mexico, providing access to day shelter, housing, and mental/behavioral health services. Our whole-person approach addresses the complex challenges and trauma that many of us face, offering healing, safety, and support through love and community.
HopeWorks is one of the largest homeless service providers in New Mexico, providing access to day shelter, housing, and mental/behavioral health services. Our whole-person approach addresses the complex challenges and trauma that many of us face, offering healing, safety, and support through love and community.
HopeWorks is one of the largest homeless service providers in New Mexico, providing access to day shelter, housing, and mental/behavioral health services. Our whole-person approach addresses the complex challenges and trauma that many of us face, offering healing, safety, and support through love and community.


A graphic of 5 people surrounded by multicolored auras representing how we interact spiritually. The center figure is overlaid with words and icons representing mind, body, and spirit as a way to show the holistic approach HopeWorks strives for.

Our Vision

HopeWorks is moving away from the rhetoric of “ending homelessness,” which puts the burden on the individual, to “healing homelessness,” which incorporates diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice values as a means of understanding how and why homelessness exists.

Homelessness isn’t an individual failure; it is a community failure, which requires community-oriented solutions. To this end, under the direction of Annam, a visionary woman of color, HopeWorks is incorporating a diverse service array designed to holistically heal the trauma that exists in community while incorporating holistic modalities to heal the individual and collective through the mind, body, and spirit. HopeWorks is envisioning a bold new campus focused exclusively on the value of building spiritual community and loving partnership with each other while healing and addressing the traumas that underpin every single one of us. Our goal is to address individual and collective trauma and promote healing through loving community and collaboration. Love is at the core of everything we do.

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A graphic of 5 people surrounded by multicolored auras representing how we interact spiritually. The center figure is overlaid with words and icons representing mind, body, and spirit as a way to show the holistic approach HopeWorks strives for.

Our Vision

HopeWorks is moving away from the rhetoric of “ending homelessness,” which puts the burden on the individual, to “healing homelessness,” which incorporates diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice values as a means of understanding how and why homelessness exists.

Homelessness isn’t an individual failure; it is a community failure, which requires community-oriented solutions. To this end, under the direction of Annam, a visionary woman of color, HopeWorks is incorporating a diverse service array designed to holistically heal the trauma that exists in community while incorporating holistic modalities to heal the individual and collective through the mind, body, and spirit. HopeWorks is envisioning a bold new campus focused exclusively on the value of building spiritual community and loving partnership with each other while healing and addressing the traumas that underpin every single one of us. Our goal is to address individual and collective trauma and promote healing through loving community and collaboration. Love is at the core of everything we do.

Learn More


What’s New?


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An Invitation

Join us for one of our free Community Lunches & Tours in 2023 (October 18 or November 15). We provide lunch and lead a conversation about our current work before diving into our vision for the future, followed by a walking tour of the campus, including a brief visit to Hope Village. For staff at referring or partner agencies, please do not RSVP for these events;  instead, contact us for options that will better meet your needs.  RSVP or inquire to Rachel Rodriguez at rrodriguez@hopeworksnm.org or 505-242-4399 x8210.
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HopeWorks Seeks New CEO

HopeWorks CEO Annam Manthiram's final day was July 7 as she takes on a new role as CEO of CitySquare in Dallas, Texas. CitySquare, the largest of its kind in Texas, is a poverty-fighting organization that provides solutions for housing, food and health services. Of Annam's transition, HopeWorks Board Chair Pat Dee said, "I would like to thank Annam Manthiram for her great work with HopeWorks, as CEO of the organization, as well as her prior role as Development Director. Her leadership through the pandemic was especially important, and she leaves the organization in very good shape, both financially and operationally. She brought a very strong and productive leadership style, and the organization and our community are both better off because of it. We wish her the best in her new endeavor and will miss her tremendously."  Vicky Palmer, HopeWorks Chief Human Resources Officer, has been named Interim CEO until a permanent CEO is hired. Read the full CEO job description here
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The Heart Series vlog

Our former CEO Annam Manthiram launched a weekly ‘vlog’ series of short video messages on YouTube.  Please like and subscribe to hear about our work and progress.
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Enhancing Client Voice

HopeWorks has established a Client Advisory Board (CAB) of current and recently graduated clients. The CAB meets regularly to provide input and help shape the agency; clients have an enhanced voice as our agency continues to grow.

    What’s New?


    Image

    An Invitation

    Join us for one of our free Community Lunches & Tours in 2023 (October 18 or November 15). We provide lunch and lead a conversation about our current work before diving into our vision for the future, followed by a walking tour of the campus, including a brief visit to Hope Village. For staff at referring or partner agencies, please do not RSVP for these events;  instead, contact us for options that will better meet your needs. RSVP to Rachel Rodriguez at rrodriguez@hopeworksnm.org or 505-242-4399 x8210.
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    HopeWorks Seeks New CEO

    HopeWorks CEO Annam Manthiram's final day was July 7 as she takes on a new role as CEO of CitySquare in Dallas, Texas. CitySquare, the largest of its kind in Texas, is a poverty-fighting organization that provides solutions for housing, food and health services. Of Annam's transition, HopeWorks Board Chair Pat Dee said, "I would like to thank Annam Manthiram for her great work with HopeWorks, as CEO of the organization, as well as her prior role as Development Director. Her leadership through the pandemic was especially important, and she leaves the organization in very good shape, both financially and operationally. She brought a very strong and productive leadership style, and the organization and our community are both better off because of it. We wish her the best in her new endeavor and will miss her tremendously."  Vicky Palmer, HopeWorks Chief Human Resources Officer, has been named Interim CEO until a permanent CEO is hired. Read the full CEO job description here
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    The Heart Series vlog

    Our former CEO Annam Manthiram launched a weekly ‘vlog’ series of short video messages on YouTube.  Please like and subscribe to hear about our work and progress.
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    Enhancing Client Voice

    HopeWorks has established a Client Advisory Board (CAB) of current and recently graduated clients. The CAB meets regularly to provide input and help shape the agency; clients have an enhanced voice as our agency continues to grow.

      Heroes on the Front Line

      Trish Garcia, Benefits Specialist/Office Manager

      I started working at HopeWorks in 2022. I used to run a business with my husband, but what drew me here was my passion for helping others. I really believe in the work that HopeWorks does.

      While I haven’t been here for that long, I enjoy getting to greet people and meet them where they are. Whether it is a donor, client, or staff member at the door, I want to show them the same compassion. I am also really proud of my role in the new hire orientation process. It is a joy to be the person that gets to introduce new staff to the organization.

      I love what I do, but sometimes it can be difficult. My heart aches for those seeking our services. When I am feeling a little down or discouraged at work, I just say a little prayer.

      One thing that working here has given me is an even better sense of humility. It has definitely impacted the way I look at those around me. It could easily be one of my friends or family members facing homelessness.

      Away from work, I love spending time with my family, going to church, and taking guitar lessons!

      Meet Our Team
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      Heroes on the Front Line

      Trish Garcia, Office Manager

      I started working at HopeWorks in 2022. I used to run a business with my husband, but what drew me here was my passion for helping others. I really believe in the work that HopeWorks does.

      While I haven’t been here for that long, I enjoy getting to greet people and meet them where they are. Whether it is a donor, client, or staff member at the door, I want to show them the same compassion. I am also really proud of my role in the new hire orientation process. It is a joy to be the person that gets to introduce new staff to the organization.

      I love what I do, but sometimes it can be difficult. My heart aches for those seeking our services. When I am feeling a little down or discouraged at work, I just say a little prayer.

      One thing that working here has given me is an even better sense of humility. It has definitely impacted the way I look at those around me. It could easily be one of my friends or family members facing homelessness.

      Away from work, I love spending time with my family, going to church, and taking guitar lessons!

      Meet Our Team

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