The Memory Care Alliance
The Memory Care Alliance
At the Memory Care Alliance we believe that everyone deserves to have quality of life and that includes people living with dementia, both caregiver and cared for. To make that possible family caregivers need accurate information, heart and person-centered education, and most of all the community and support of other caregivers.
Our weekly caregiver meetings create that support, both at the meetings and more importantly outside in their everyday lives, for instance meeting for coffee or sharing meals. We have open meetings for everyone, a men's group, a Spanish language group, LGBTQ+ support and a weekly group at the Zuni Pueblo Senior Center. In the words of Chantal, who cares for her husband Paul, "It's an open forum for caregivers to share their intimate emotions while receiving support from peers who are traveling the same journey. When together, we are reminded that we are not alone, we cry, we laugh. Somehow this allows participants like me to search for the glimmer of sunshine at the end the road."
We provide information and education through our comprehensive Prepare to Care course for caregivers and our annual Caregiver Education Day (coming up on Saturday, April 13 at the Santa Fe Community College), where we have a wide range of speakers, an Ask US Anything panel and a vibrant vendor's market. "I am a long-distance caregiver for my mother with mild dementia. I was offered the Prepare To Care program through the Memory Care Alliance. The classes gave me a framework to organize my mother‘s home care which all allows her to keep a sense of independence." Connie, long-distance caregiver.
No one should be caring for a loved one alone, so we invite you to join our growing communities of caregivers.
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The Santa Fe Community Foundation invited local nonprofits to submit stories related to our March topic of Senior Services.
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
Last year, the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian opened Carved Stories by Hopi artist Mavasta Honyouti. Featuring all sixteen low-relief carvings from the Coming Home series — created in tandem with Honyouti’s children’s book Coming Home: A Hopi Resistance Story — the exhibit recounts his grandfather Clyde Honyouti’s experience at an off-reservation federal boarding school. This Indigenous-led project offers a powerful and visually compelling reflection on Hopi life, culture, and history. As Brian Vallo notes, “Carved Stories… is both powerful and beautiful.”
Kha'p'o Community School
With support from the Native American Advised Fund, sixth-grade students at Kha’p’o Community School embarked on Our Voice, Our Stories — a year-long documentary project blending traditional Tewa arts and modern digital storytelling. Through pottery, weaving, sewing, and film, students explored their cultural identity and celebrated their voices as young Tewa people.
Truchas Services Center Preschool
The Truchas Services Center Preschool serves children from all the surrounding communities, providing supervision and appropriate curriculum for children ages 3 to 5 years old. The mission of the Pre-School program is "Children learning through playing".
