ECHO West Texas forms to help coordinate homeless services in Lubbock area
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - What was known as Lubbock's Homeless Haven, which formed in 2021, has been redeveloped into a nonprofit organization known ...
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - What was known as Lubbock's Homeless Haven, which formed in 2021, has been redeveloped into a nonprofit organization known as ECHO, Ending Community Homelessness Organization, West Texas. Its goal is to provide a 'neutral party' to area service providers as a way to better collaborate and communicate. 'We want to approach working together on solving homelessness here in the area,' Executive Director Valerie Longoria said. 'It was a way that we could start fresh and start new, creating that new strategy, but it came with a name change to ECHO West Texas.