Community Resources
Before submitting your application, please apply to one of the following corresponding community resources. If you are denied services, please provide us with a copy of your denial letter with your application.
Utilities
If you need help paying your winter heating bills, New Mexico Gas Company wants to help you stay warm.
HEAT New Mexico is our heating assistance fund, administered by the Salvation Army.
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
The PNM Good Neighbor Fund is an emergency fund that helps low-income customers in our service area with energy assistance when they are at risk of being disconnected. Donations from generous PNM customers, employees, and shareholders fund this program.
Community Energy Efficiency Development (CEED) Program
The Community Energy Efficiency Development (CEED) Block Grant Act was passed in 2022 to provide grants for targeted residential energy efficiency improvements in underserved communities across New Mexico.
Local governments, in partnership with community organizations, will be able to help low-income households reduce their energy bills and energy use, reduce emissions, and create local jobs while supporting the communities most impacted by climate change.
Nutritional Support
The New Mexico Association of Food Banks (the Association) is a collaboration of five New Mexico food banks, providing food to our neighbors in need. Food is distributed by each member food bank through a statewide network of hunger relief locations impacting every county in the state.
Meal Site Locations
ECECD’s Family Nutrition Bureau administers two USDA Child Nutrition Programs, the Child and the Adult Care Food Program and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP).
The New Mexico Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program is proud to offer free healthy foods, nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and community connections to help families live their best in the Land of Enchantment.
Diaper Assistance
The JLA Diaper Bank was founded in 2018 and is the only Diaper Bank serving the Albuquerque Metro area. Run by our volunteer members, the Diaper Bank collects, purchases, and packs diapers for our community partners across the Albuquerque Metro Area. Our partners place monthly orders and receive diapers at no cost, to distribute to their clients. Through these partnerships, we are able to distribute thousands of diapers annually.
We are proud members of the National Diaper Bank Network, a national organization of banks working to end period poverty in local communities.
Financial Support/Modifications
ILRC provides advocacy, independent living skills training, peer counseling, nursing home transition & diversion and youth transition, as well as information and referral regarding community-based services. They can provide financial support for home and vehicle modification changes that make them saver and easier to use, and information about guaranteed loans for handicap accessible vehicles and home modification. They can also help with peer support.
Other Disability Programs
Recreational Programs
Therapeutic Recreation Program
Information about Youth Therapeutic Recreation, including youth out-of-school-time programs.
Inclusion Recreation
The Community Recreation and Education Initiatives Division is committed to providing quality inclusive programming for people with disabilities. In part, the Therapeutic Recreation Program supports our division with inclusion access by offering the Access Program and the Inclusion Ambassador Program.
The Access Program provides additional training and inclusion support for other programs in the City of Albuquerque. Support is specific to each program and custom to each participant's needs.
The Inclusion Ambassador Program offers professional development to part time staff in community centers around Albuquerque.
We encourage any person looking to participate in their neighborhood City recreation program to register and seek support by requesting accommodations with program management.
Car Seats
Funded by the New Mexico Department of Transportation Traffic Safety Division, the
New Mexico Child Safety Seat Distribution Program (NMCSSDP) helps provide car seats and education on how to properly use them to low-income New Mexico families at a low cost.
There are approximately 40 distribution locations statewide, and each site has specific qualifications families must meet before being issued a seat.
Adaptive Equipment and Technology
NMTAP offers free services to New Mexicans with disabilities to help them get the assistive technology (AT) services they need. It is a statewide program designed to increase knowledge of, access to, and acquisition of assistive or adaptive technology for anyone with any disability, anywhere in the state, of any age.
Individuals with disabilities, their families and their caregivers can access a wide range of services, programs and resources through the UNM Center for Development and Disabilities.
CDD provides family-centered care and resources for New Mexican children who rely on medical technology for daily living, including kids with cerebral palsy and dual sensory impairment. We support independence through self-directed development and disability programs.