FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

Welcome to the Family and Community Services Website

The employees of the Department of Family and Community Services welcome you to our web page.  It is our privilege to assist individuals and families in meeting their housing, educational, recreational, health care and other needs. 

We hope that you will find this web page is helpful in answering your questions about the services we provide to the citizens of the Albuquerque metropolitan area.

Please let us know if we are accomplishing our goal.  We are always interested in hearing how we can better serve you.

 

Robin Dozier Otten
Director, Department of Family and Community Services
City of Albuquerque

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Department Mission Statement

The Department of Family and Community Services provides quality health and social services, housing, recreation and education to improve the quality of life for the entire Albuquerque Community.

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NEW! Area Agency on Aging (AAA)

Click here for more information on senior services:

• Case management
• Congregate meals
• Home delivered meals
• Transportation

• In-home care
• Legal services
• Health and evaluation support for caregivers

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NEW! Albuquerque Teen Arts and Entertainment Center aka Warehouse 508

 

The Department of Family and Community Services has taken a different approach with the new Albuquerque Teen Arts and Entertainment Center by involving young people in the planning, building design, programmatic development process and ongoing management. The City is convinced that young people’s ideas are essential to creating a successful Teen Arts and Entertainment Center downtown. Click here for more information 

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NEW! Affordable Housing Resources

Click here for more information on:

• Purchasing an affordable home
• Finding affordable apartments and rental housing
• Purchasing or renting a foreclosed property
• Homebuyer Counseling

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AFFORDABLE HOUSING NEEDS ASSESSMENT

Chronic and severe poverty are major causes of homelessness in cities across the country. In Albuquerque, families and individuals cycle in and out of homelessness when they lose a job, become ill, or suffer from domestic violence, substance abuse, and other acute conditions. Almost 23,000 people in Albuquerque earn less than 30% of the area median income (AMI) and therefore are at significant risk of homelessness; by 2011, that number will rise to over 24,000.

To view this report please click here: Affordable Housing Needs Assessment

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Homeless Prevention & Rapid Recovery (HPRP) Stimulus Program

The City of Albuquerque has awarded federal stimulus funds to Catholic Charities for homeless prevention and rapid re-housing services.

For more information, please visit our web page or contact Catholic Charities at 724-4615.

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Community Development Block Grant - Recovery (CDBG-R) Stimulus Projects

The City of Albuquerque has been awarded federal stimulus funds for three Community Development Block Grant - Recovery projects.
For more information, please visit our web page or email Linda Rumpf at lrumpf@cabq.gov.

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Public Housing Capital Fund Stimulus Projects

The City has received Stimulus Capital Fund Grant funds from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), combined with funding from the 2009 regular Capital Fund Grant, to provide energy efficiency upgrades to modernize Albuquerque public housing developments.
For more information, please visit our web page or email Jim Satterwhite at JSatterwhite@cabq.gov.

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Administrative Requirements for Contracts Awarded Under the City of Albuquerque

NEW! Updated Administrative Requirements for Contracts Awarded Under the City of Albuquerque

Consolidated Plan and Workforce Housing Plan - Albuquerque 2008-2012 can be found under "Related Information: Publications"

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Are you having Landlord-Tenant issues? If so, please call Law Access at 998-4529, or if you are out of the City limits, please call 1-800-340-9771.

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