Lonely? Scared? Hurting? Lost?
Are you facing a crisis and need immediate help?
LYDIA, Inc. is empowering families in crisis through life coaching, life skills classes, non-medical case management, and a professional attire clothes closet.
Upcoming Events
With your business clothes closet
Share Your Fashion Sense!
Love Kon Mari? Enjoying “Tidying Up” on Netflix?
Just ready to Spring Clean? We take your professional clothes, gently used, like-new, or still with tags on them; shoes; accessories; and other necessities for interviews and securing employment.
Support Services
LYDIA offers a wide range of services to support families and individuals. If you don’t see something that you need, please contact us to see if we can help.
Life Direction
Case Management
We get it. The paperwork is overwhelming. Applying for welfare, gathering information and forms, filling everything out – it can get exhausting. We walk with you through the entire process, even providing written referrals when needed.

Family Crisis
Suits You
Workshops & Classes
We teach groups and small classes topics such as basic life skills in financial literacy and cooking to job skills such as resume writing and interview techniques.

Job Skills & Interviews

Life Skills
Spring Cleaning = Clothes Drive
LYDIA closet It's that time of year - digging in the couch cushions for lost money, repairing sweaters for next winter, refreshing the home to be able to fully enjoy the outdoors (or bring the outdoors in). As you're cleaning out that closet, trying on clothes,...
read moreBe Hope for Someone Else Today
It was a hard year. It was going to end poorly. Without the kindness of strangers, we had no hope.
read moreFeast of St. Nicholas and our Winter Wonderland Event
Learn about St. Nicholas, or Santa Claus, and why we have a winter wonderland party around the Feast of St. Nicholas.
read moreHoliday Greetings
How does your family celebrate or remember the year, the family, the friends, the joys and losses? Share your traditions and let’s see who has similar or new traditions. We decorate the Christmas tree as soon after Thanksgiving as we can. So pretty! Then we come up...
read moreBack to the Basics
A Reminder: As I sat in a quiet room this morning, listening to the sound of water fall, I was reminded that maybe I’m pushing too much, too hard. See, when I originally founded LYDIA, the idea was to have a place – maybe a coffee shop or cafe, maybe just have hot...
read moreA Quick Update
We are still working on getting our website up and running, developing our programs, and establishing community here in Santa Fe. In developing our programs, our director, Emma Shows, is training as a life coach. Our marketing director, David Commini, is learning more...
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