Albuquerque Chapter Closes

From Self Help for the Hard of Hearing (SHHH) to the Hearing Loss Association of Albuquerque we have served our community and the population with hearing loss since 1988. 

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Self-help groups are less popular now and our attendance has reflected that change. Between live attendance and zoom attendees we have been lucky to have 10 or 12 people at our meetings over the past year since we moved back to live meetings at the Deaf Culture Center. 

In spite of repeated requests for help, our board has dwindled to a core group who have carried the load, and frankly, have experienced burnout as a result of the effort needed to serve so few members.

 

 in our forth coming newsletter is a plea to continue to carry out the mission of HLAA with education, advocacy, support and information. We all can continue to teach others what those of us with hearing loss need in all the various situations in our own lives. 

 

This decision was not reached lightly. It has been more emotional for some of us than others, but the vote was unanimous. We find ourselves faced with a model for our meetings that is not sustainable. 

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Our next newletter will be the last newsletter that we publish, and we thank all of you who have supported the chapter over the years. Naming everyone would undoubtedly omit someone important, so we will not try, but you know who you are. We could not have achieved what we did without standing on the shoulders of those who came before us. 

 

With warm goodbyes, a few tears, and a resolve to continue our individual efforts at hearing loss support. 

Your board for the Hearing Loss Association of America, Albuquerque Chapter. 

Rod Rodríguez, Bobbi Rodríguez, Carol Clifford, Jim Dillow, Jim Twohig and Mary Clark