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
It is our joy to host a free community-wide Winter Wonderland. With your business clothes closet
Next month, on December 7th, 2018, we are hosting the Winter Wonderland at 231 E Cordova Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87505 at 6 p.m. with a special visit from Santa Claus, gifts, and games. Please RSVP by December 1st with your child(ren)’s name, age, and wishlist.
We look forward to celebrating the holiday season with our community of Santa Fe.
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
Necessary Services: Transportation
Okay, here’s another “hard” one – reliable transportation. First off, let me admit that I have severe anxiety when it comes to driving. So much so that I got my permit but was never able to pass the driver’s test. Now (maybe in part due to this anxiety), I’m not...
read moreNecessary Services: Child-care or Day Care Solutions
Day care. One of my own primary complaints, and one that we’ve heard often from clients and those we’ve interviewed, is that in order to get a job when one has children, one must have child care. But in order to obtain and keep child care, one must have a job. It’s a...
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Necessary Services: Youth Programs
What youth programs do we want to offer? Why do we want to offer youth programs, and how will they differ from what’s already available in Santa Fe? Peer mentorship and tutoring. Youth will help each other, form groups, and support one another on life’s journeys....
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Necessary Services: Job Training
The Book Lounge and Cafe So why a bookstore? Because I love reading. Because I want to share my passion for reading and learning. Because meeting, connecting, over a good book – there’s nothing else like it. How will it work? Well, clients who want to work with us...
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Why LYDIA pt 3
Thank you for your interest in LYDIA, Inc. Happy St. Patrick’s Day! It’s a day of green – in many ways…… Many people have asked me what my vision is for LYDIA. I want to post a brief overview of the current programs (which you can find out more about by visiting our...
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Why LYDIA, Inc.
I’ve had many questions about “why LYDIA, Inc.?” – “what is the idea?”, “what is the concept?”, “what is the reality?”, “what do we want?”, and “why?”, “why?”, “why?”, “why?”, “why?” In 2002 I was the happiest I could ever be. I got married. In 2003, I got pregnant...
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