Compassion or Judgment? What’s Your 2017 New Year’s Resolution?

by Jeremy Reynalds, Ph.D. Founder and CEO Joy Junction Inc. They’re all over Albuquerque and cities nationwide, holding a variety of signs designed to get you to fork over some spare change. Panhandling verbiage ranges from a simple, “Hungry. God bless,” to “Too honest to steal and too ugly to prostitute.” What do you do? Sometimes it can seem like … Read More

Less Drama-More Dialogue.

By Jeremy Reynalds, Ph.D. Founder and CEO Joy Junction Inc. It might just help our city’s homeless The older (and hopefully wiser) I get, I want less drama and more dialogue-in every area of my life. Dialogue, and not drama or confrontation, is the key to helping alleviate some of the homeless issues Downtown. Take those individuals who have been … Read More

There’s No Quick Fix for Albuquerque’s Smelliest Problem

By Jeremy Reynalds, Ph.D. Founder and CEO Joy Junction Inc. A recent story by KOB TV 4 in Albuquerque reported that some Downtown business owners are just plain fed up. They say while homeless people come to eat at the Albuquerque Rescue Mission, once the facility closes its doors there’s no place for the homeless to use the restroom, and … Read More