How Do We Fund a County Where 100% of Families Can Thrive?
The groundbreaking 100% New Mexico initiative shares the vision with every county of creating a seamless system of ten accessible services for surviving and thriving.
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How Are Book Clubs a Catalyst for Powerful Change?
The local 100% New Mexico initiative Anna, Age Eight books clubs started a movement. Here’s how you grow the change process with readers and leaders.
How Do Families Find Vital Services for Surviving and Thriving?
Finding affordable local services is still challenging while we swim in a sea of information. A fact-checked and constantly updated Family Service Directory can change that.
How Are 100% Community Murals Inspiring Change?
Our 100% Mural projects bring together students, families, and stakeholders with a message of healing, hope, and a call to action.
How Does a Local 100% New Mexico Summit Inspire Powerful Change?
When a 100% New Mexico summit brings together county champions with a shared purpose, amazing things happen.
How Do We Know Which Vital Services Families Can’t Reach and Why?
The 100% New Mexico County Survey provides local and state leaders with data illustrating service barriers that harm families.
How Does a 100% New Mexico Champion Guide Groundbreaking Work?
Overseeing transformational change across an entire county and working to ensure families’ access to vital services is the heroic work of 100% New Mexico initiative coordinators. This is how it’s done.
A New Course Takes 100%ers on the Road to Solutions
Don’t miss the new on-location “Road to the 100% New Mexico Initiative” training! It’s guaranteed to provide new insights, resources, and strategies for our local leaders.
Learn “How to 100%” in Just Minutes
Our new “How to 100%” course is free and fast, teaching you how to grow the local 100% New Mexico initiative to create safe childhoods for all.
How Do You Design a 100% Family Center?
Our new “The 100% Family Center” course provides participants with all the steps to design and identify funding for the groundbreaking one-stop service hub.
Anna’s Story Still Has to Be Told
Five years after the publication of Anna, Age Eight, the third grader’s story continues to inspire action.
Improving Childhoods in Otero County
From birth to age five, a child’s brain develops more than at any other time in life. The quality of a child’s experiences in the first few years of life-positive or negative-helps shape how their brain develops. 100% Otero’s Early Childhood Learning Team works to make sure parents and guardians have access to all they need to provide the best possible experience for their young children.
Champions See Where We Can Be Tomorrow
Working collectively to ensure 10 vital services, the 100% New Mexico initiative is transforming our state into a society that empowers 100% of its children, students, and families.
Can a Robot Help Ensure Our Children Survive and Thrive?
Using my critical thinking and fact-checking powers to confirm what’s written, I took ChatGPT out for a test run to test its artificial intelligence skills. The results might surprise you.
7 Steps to Ensure Our Children Survive and Thrive
The 100% New Mexico initiative provides an ever-growing number of visionary and courageous county stakeholders with the seven steps to transform communities by ensuring access to vital services.
Santa Fe’s Challenges and Opportunities Await
A new NMSU Anna, Age Eight Institute report illustrates the challenges Santa Fe’s families endure as they seek to access the services for surviving and thriving. The data provide a starting point for powerful transformation to ensure every child and student can thrive.
What Does “A Child’s Right to Survive and Thrive” Mean?
Do the children of New Mexico have the right to survive? Should all infants, children, and students have the right to thrive? Rights to services? Moral rights? Our new course explores these vital questions.
“There’s an App for That.” Even a Family Services Directory?
In this interview with Hagerman City Councilor and 100% Chaves County initiative leader Dan Jennings, we explore his other “hat” as an app designer and web guru using technology to serve families.
Concerned for the Well-Being of 100%
In society’s fight between altruism and apathy, the 100% New Mexico initiative works for the selfless caring of all our children, families, and communities.
San Miguel County 100% Resolution Sends an Important Message
Across New Mexico, county leaders are showing their support through resolutions that detail their commitment to ensuring ten vital services for surviving and thriving.
100% Taos Mural Celebrates a Community
100% Taos celebrates their community through a new mural as documented in a new inspiring video.
Town of Hagerman, NM Signs Resolution for 100% Chaves
County and city resolutions are sending a strong message that local government plays an important role in ensuring vital services for families.
Seven Steps to Revolutionize Healthcare
Our healthcare crisis can serve as the catalyst to implement visionary reforms to ensure the health of every New Mexican.
Who Knows What Will Happen to Us Next Year?
What’s newsworthy is that half the state’s counties are working with the 100% New Mexico initiative to do what’s been called “impossible” by ensuring every child has access to ten vital services for surviving and thriving.
So Thankful We Can Unite to Heal, Help, and Inspire
We’re grateful for the hundreds of New Mexicans engaged in the groundbreaking 100% New Mexico initiative who are strengthening a culture of caring.
Let’s stop and ask, where Is New Mexico Going?
With the flurry of elections behind us, we are examining the status quo to provide a guide to a future where New Mexico’s children, students, and families can thrive.
100% Valencia’s Initiative Superpowers
We asked Ginny Adame, member of the County Wellness Council, how the 100% New Mexico initiative is helping them get to positive health outcomes.
100% Socorro to Showcase Visionary Work
We asked the 100% Socorro initiative leader, Dr. Sharon Sessions, how their 100% County Summit will showcase the work of ensuring 10 vital services.
We Might Get You an Appointment in 3 Months
What are the barriers to the ten vital services for surviving and thriving and how does the 100% New Mexico initiative remove them?
Prioritizing You So You Can Help Others
We explore the concept of prioritizing one’s own emotional and physical health in order to heal one’s community through the work of the 100% New Mexico initiative.
Las Cruces Mural Builds Community and Hope
In our interview with Raquel Madrigal, artist for the 100% Community Mural in Las Cruces, we discuss what the new mural means to her, the community of Las Cruces, and Doña Ana County.
Report from the field: Mural Monday in Farmington
The 100% New Mexico, Seeds of Opportunity Mural was created to uniquely represent the thriving community that 100% San Juan strives to promote. Painted by local artist, Christy Clugston and friends, it is framed in the geographical state outline of New Mexico.
Wouldn’t Focusing on One Service Be Much Easier?
We are often asked, why ten services? Wouldn’t it be easier to just focus on one at a time? The truth is, what’s easy isn’t always better.
Art as Medicina: The 100% Otero Mural
Jazmín Sáenz, Artist and Chaparral local, spoke to the Anna Age Eight Institute about the mural process and what the Mural means to the community.
What Does Evaluating 100% New Mexico Mean?
Independent evaluation experts are asking, “What’s meaningful, measurable, and worth watching closely?”
Experiencing the 100% Cultura Mural Celebration
An incredible evening of art, music, and hope in Española, New Mexico to support the 100% Rio Arriba initiative.
Mentoring 100% of Our Children and Youth
We know the benefits of youth mentoring can include increased school engagement and achievement and a delay in the use of alcohol and other mind-altering substances. Explore how your county can meet the challenge of ensuring a mentor for every child and youth.
Curry & Roosevelt Counties Aim for 100%
In our interview with Sarah Long, the new coordinator for our Curry and Roosevelt County initiative, we explore how eastern New Mexico is innovating to ensure ten vital services for surviving and thriving.
100% Cultura! A 100% Mural Celebration
You’re invited June 25th to an inspiring community celebration in Española, part of the 100% Rio Arriba initiative to ensure vital services for all families.
Seven Steps to a Future When 100% Thrive
Exploring how each county can ensure ten vital services for surviving and thriving.
A Local Force for Health and Equity
Join us as we explore the power of New Mexico’s county health council system with Sharon Finarelli with the NM Alliance for Health Councils.
100%: The Long Game vs Quick Fixes
We explore how New Mexico’s 100% New Mexico initiative teams understand that building back better to ensure resilient families means a multi-year plan.
If Only Our Communities’ Problems Had an Edit Button
A voice calls up from below. It’s hoarse and powered by a rasping breath, but I can’t make out the words. I look over my laptop and it’s the skinny man from the steps. He’s standing directly below me and pulling at the shoulder of his shirt.
Evaluating 100% (the Important Details Version)
The 100% New Mexico initiative is working to do what no other state has attempted. Evaluators are measuring the capacity of local stakeholders to strengthen each family’s access to the ten vital services for surviving and thriving at the county level.
Evaluation Answers the Question “Are We There Yet?”
The 100% New Mexico initiative is a data-driven initiative committed to measurable and meaningful change focused on preventing childhood adversity by ensuring vital services for surviving and thriving. With our children’s safety in the balance, we are an initiative that can’t afford to fail.
Rebranding “Child Abuse Prevention Month”
Important messages about ensuring our children’s right to live abuse-free are promoted throughout Child Abuse Prevention Month. Amid an epidemic of abuse and neglect, this work is now required every day of the week throughout the year.
How McKinley County, NM Reaches 100%
UNM-Gallup professor Dr. Tracy Lassiter seeks to grow 100% McKinley, creating an engine to ensure ten vital services for surviving and thriving to address adverse childhood experiences, family trauma, and social adversity.
Where Are We and Are We There Yet?
As a society we are emerging from one phase but have not arrived at the next one. We are in an emotional state that psychologists call liminality.
Leveraging Your Leadership Moment
In this era of transition and possibility, we explore the need for a new kind of leadership with Eric Martin from Adaptive Change Advisors.
We Heal Ourselves by Healing Our Communities
We can focus our energies on both self-care and healing traumatized families across New Mexico.
Why Counties Turn to School-Based Health Care
If the pandemic taught us anything, it’s that we need to strengthen our statewide system of health care. School-based health turns each school into a hub for accessible care for students and their families. We ask Nancy Rodriguez with the New Mexico Alliance for School-Based Health about her mission.
Health Equity in a State of Disruption
What does health equity mean to real families living in this era of disruptions to school, healthcare, jobs, and social services?
100% Support from Taos County Commissioners
Taos County commissioners are sending a powerful public statement to all county residents in the form of a resolution.
Empowering New Mexico with 100% Power Hours
The 100% Power Hour webinar series focuses on the vital skills of strengthening family services through assessing, planning, action and evaluation.
100% Otero Focuses on Transportation Improvements
Transportation programs aren’t just about getting from point A to point B, they are services that can mean the difference between quality of life and blocked access to vital services in “normal times.”
Fortunately, Superhuman Powers Are Not Required
It’s not a superhuman power. We can turn what we visualize into reality. Let’s use that gift to create ten vital services for surviving and thriving.
Do Children Have the Right to Survive and Thrive?
Within our unending epidemic of childhood trauma and crushing social adversity, it’s time to prioritize the right of children to survive and thrive.
The Metaverse: Should We Be Escaping Reality or Fixing It?
Like all technology, the Metaverse can be used for good or evil. We can hide in it or learn how to heal and help our vulnerable real-world children and families.
Why We Need Radical Altruism to Ensure Our Kids’ Safety
It will take acts of selfless caring never seen before to ensure that all our children can survive and thrive in the new post-pandemic society.
A Win-Win Situation That Just Makes Sense
Change agent Kathy Price shares how she’s starting the groundbreaking initiative 100% New Mexico in San Juan county.
Turning “We Can’t” into “We Can” to Support Every Child
We explore how, in the era of endless crises, super-sized brainstorming can lead to thriving families, schools and communities
Designing Schools to Teach, Heal and Help
The community schools model can increase academic achievement and help students and their families prevent adverse childhood experiences and treat trauma.
Why Does Anna’s Story Need to Be Told?
We share a tragic story at the New Mexico Roundhouse during Anna, Age Eight Day to prevent it from ever happening again.
Lifesaving Projects Grow From “Build Back Better” Ideas
Senate Bill 211 proposes a groundbreaking 100% Family Center One-Stop Service Hub in Doña Ana County to serve as a model for all counties.
Anna, Age Eight Day: Making Every Child in NM the #1 Priority
NMSU Cooperative Extension’s Anna, Age Eight Institute celebrates the third “Anna, Age Eight Day” at the state capital to share our progress with the 100% New Mexico initiative on January 29.
It’s Time to Open Your County’s 100% Family Services Center
Creating a one-stop hub to ensure all our parents can access ten vital services for surviving and thriving.
Building Back Better? First Ensure Vital Services for Surviving
To “build back better,” our top priority is to ensure that the ten vital services for surviving and thriving that support our families exist in this era of instability and disruptions.
Does anyone, anywhere have a plan?
The 100% New Mexico initiative can serve as the “build back better” strategy, the plan New Mexico needs to recover from the pandemic and disruption of education, healthcare, jobs and local economies.
Yes, That’s the Sound of Our Biggest Challenges Being Solved
NMSU Cooperative Extension’s 100% New Mexico initiative launches podcast series on addressing childhood trauma and lack of access to vital services.
You’re Invited to Anna, Age Eight Day at New Mexico’s Roundhouse
NMSU Cooperative Extension’s Anna, Age Eight Institute celebrates the third “Anna, Age Eight Day” at the state capital to share our progress with the 100% New Mexico initiative on January 29.
How Can a New Website Help Solve Our Biggest Challenges?
NMSU Cooperative Extension’s 100% New Mexico Initiative launches new website to support public engagement in local initiative strategies to ensure trauma-free and healthy families.
Bernalillo County Champions Want 100% to Thrive
The 100% New Mexico initiative is now fully engaged in Bernalillo County, the largest county in the state, which represents almost a third of the population.
We’re Building Back Stronger With 100% Power Hours
NMSU Cooperative Extension’s 100% New Mexico initiative provides 100% Power Hour webinar series to address the root causes of poverty and resourced communities that can lead to child maltreatment, food insecurity, health care inequity and lack of employment.