“No one can help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” — Chaplain Joe Dudziak
Our Mission is to meet the unhoused where they are, with survival supplies, information, and compassion.
What we do.
Chaplain Joe’s Street Outreach provides those living outside in Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico with essential supplies including sleeping bags, hats, gloves, socks, boots, coats, hand warmers, food, toiletries, feminine products, first aid supplies, and more.
We also provide referrals regarding housing, healthcare, behavioral and mental health services, job training, laundry facilities, and showers services.
Just as importantly, we offer conversation, empathy, understanding, and compassion, all in a low-barrier, judgment-free setting.
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CJSO and 100 Women Who Care Santa Fe
Chaplain Joe’s Street Outreach (CJSO) is blessed to be the 2024 recipient of a donation of $13,519 from the organization 100 Women Who Care Santa Fe. Chaplain Joe Dudziak, Managing Director of CJSO, said that 100 % of this donation will be used to purchase and deliver essential survival supplies to the unhoused in the Santa Fe area.
“CJSO will use this donation to purchase supplies like sleeping bags, tents, and other necessities, which our volunteers will deliver to the unhoused folks so they have a chance to stay alive on the streets of the city,” Dudziak said.
From left, Doug Stuart, Joe Dudziak, Pam Christie, Steve Brugger, Katie Rountree & Robert Griego display donations from 100 Women Who Care Santa Fe
Katie Rountree co-founded 100 Women Who Care SF with Jody Feagan in 2012. The group has grown from 27 to 350 members over the last 12 years and continues attracting new members. Rountree explained, “We started 100 Women Who Care to make a positive difference in our community. As a group of caring individuals, we can do much more together than we could individually. People connect with people to help make the world a better place for all. That is what 100 Women Who Care is really all about”, she stated.
Rountree said that 100 Women uses the simple model of meeting throughout the year to decide how to combine their donations best to make a larger impact in helping non-profits in the City Different. “We have been meeting for one hour, four times a year, to decide which charities we want to support,” she explained. Over the past 12 years, 100 Women Who Care members have donated close to $700,000 to local Santa Fe nonprofits. Rountree added: “We are always looking for new members as our goal is to become the first 1,000 Women Who Care in New Mexico”.
Dudziak expressed his appreciation and said, “This generous donation from 100 Women Who Care Santa Fe will have a big impact and help us save the lives of many folks living unhoused in Santa Fe.”
Ready to make a difference?
A $60 donation pays for one zero-degree-rated sleeping bag, 2 pairs of winter socks, a knit hat, a pair of gloves, hand warmers, wet wipes, granola bars, bottled water, and two heavy-duty contractor bags.
Last winter, our all-volunteer workforce distributed over 250 of these sleeping bag packages to Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico residents living outside.