Carlsbad Community of Hope

About Carlsbad Community of Hope

Carlsbad Community of Hope is a sober living operator in Carlsbad, New Mexico, providing recovery housing and emergency shelter in Eddy County. Robert and Patricia Jacquez run it as a local nonprofit, and it has become a fixture of the city's response to homelessness and addiction.

A Carlsbad Recovery Housing Provider Built on a Ministry

The organization runs on volunteers, donations and a church footing. Its work starts with the immediate needs, food and a bed and clean clothes, and moves outward into the things that keep a person housed: identification, legal help, anger management classes, a haircut before an interview, and a push toward employment. That order of operations distinguishes a mission from a fee-based sober house, and it determines who ends up in the door. People arrive with nothing.

Public Record Behind This Eddy County Sober Living Operator

New Mexico keeps no register of recovery housing providers, so the record that exists is local and journalistic. The City of Carlsbad publicly credited the organization in October 2020 for opening on short notice to shelter homeless residents through severe weather. The Carlsbad Current-Argus profiled the center in November 2021. A founder was recognized in 2021 for her ministry work. None of that is regulatory oversight. In a state with no certifying body, a documented record of local activity is what a family has to work with.

Where This Sober Living Operator Works

The service area is Carlsbad and the surrounding Eddy County communities in the Pecos Valley, on the edge of the Permian Basin. Southeastern New Mexico's economy runs on oil and gas, and its housing market moves with the rig count, so the people who fall out of it compete for a very small number of beds at the moment prices are highest. The organization works entirely inside that market, in the county seat, where the courts, the hospital and the behavioral health providers are.

Supporting and Reaching a Carlsbad Recovery Housing Provider

Referrals and applications go directly to the organization. The questions worth asking at the operator level differ from the ones about a bed: how long it has sheltered people in Carlsbad, how it is funded and what happens when funding is short, whether it works with the courts and treatment providers in the county, what is expected of a resident in exchange for a place, and how someone raises a complaint about staff. It accepts donations and volunteers, and it runs community events to fund the work.