If you are working on preventing opioid addiction or other substance use disorders, illness, injury, violence, child neglect, abuse and trauma, low student achievement, lack of job readiness, or crime your success depends on using the social drivers of health framework. This is a plan to ensure ten vital services for surviving and thriving. Failure to do so will lead to a lack of positive outcomes.
Meet Julius, who can analyze data in seconds and offers insights into turning data on family services and barriers into action.
Seeing the challenges our children endure is not easy, yet it’s how we heal our families.
A brighter future is on the horizon for Bernalillo County thanks to a transformative initiative and the heroes working to make it a reality.
Socorro County families have dedicated heroes working tirelessly on an initiative that will transform lives. Meet them at the 100% Socorro Summit in June.
How public safety and the goals of the 100% New Mexico initiative can align to ensure all children, families, and communities can thrive.
The velocity of change is startling, disruptive, and provides an opportunity to transform society in positive ways.
After a 100% New Mexico Summit, partnering with the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant called Pi can strengthen the work of local initiatives as they build the systems of support for all families.
Once upon a time, a teacher heard cries for help. Her actions show how New Mexico can become a place where all children can live happy and healthy lives. Can we learn that lesson before it’s too late?
Attend the 100% Santa Fe Summit to explore how you can ensure 100% of families can access the vital services for surviving and thriving.
Explore what the 100% New Mexico initiative has accomplished in five years and what we can now do with the buy-in of New Mexico’s visionary leaders, united in a common cause to ensure every child, student, and family can access the services to thrive.
Explore the power of artificial intelligence (AI) growing leaps and bounds with ChatGPT, a powerful tool for 100% New Mexico initiative work focused on community well-being and ensuring vital services for all.
Chapin Hall University of Chicago report identifies service disparities and the transformative potential of the 100% New Mexico initiative.
Over the last five years, we have been blessed to find rich cultures, revolutionary creativity, courageous collaboration, innovative technology, and powerful problem-solving, all with a unique New Mexican flavor.
In a world where bold visions collide with unforeseen challenges, the Anna, Age Eight Institute stood on the brink of a groundbreaking opportunity.
Discover funding, write better articles, uncover data, encourage creativity, find solutions, and create revolutionary projects. All that? Really?
Our 100% Family Center: One Stop Service Hubs are more than a service connecting families to resources, they are a resource generation hub. How does this happen?
Diego López, 100% Rio Arriba initiative leader, filmmaker, and artist, shares his perspective on the power of community, having a shared vision of well-being for 100%, and the role of the arts in local vitalization in Española.
In this Q&A, Dominic Cappello interviews Ginny Adame. These seasoned change agents have a rich history of over a decade working together in Valencia County, engaged in numerous initiatives associated with the county health council. Join us as Ginny Adame shares her perspectives on improving communities and the upcoming 100% Valencia Summit.
When considering how to “fix” Child Welfare, it’s vital not to confuse the strategies, staff, and frameworks for prevention with those required for intervention.
Eight-year-old Anna was set up to fail from the very beginning and the tragedy of her death has not resulted in the necessary change to prevent another child from falling between the cracks. How did this happen?
Ensuring ten vital services for surviving and thriving are accessible to 100% of New Mexico’s children and families is exhausting work. How might AI make the process easier, faster, and more efficient?
We are asking courageous questions five years after her story launched the Anna, Age Eight Institute.
A Child Welfare case so tragic that it reduced an entire state to stunned silence. Can we stop it happening again?
This is the story of an eight-year-old girl who was failed by every system that was supposed to keep her safe. It’s also a story with an ending that is still being written.
Creating a New Mexico where childhood is trauma-free is only possible when we make every child’s health, safety, and education the number one priority. We have the proposal for a groundbreaking strategy ready to implement.
Distracted and disempowered by the mass media, social media, and the entertainment industry, do we have the steadfast courage to focus our attention on the harm being done to our children today? The answer may surprise you.
Fixing child welfare to ensure the safety of our children can be done, but only by doing what’s never been tried in New Mexico.
Our dedicated 100% Otero initiative leaders, Peg Crim and Lisa Yehle, took a few minutes to speak to us while preparing for the upcoming 100% Otero Summit on February 8th. As you will see, there’s much to get ready for.
You’re invited to explore the visionary future of New Mexico, a state where 100% of our children, students, and families can thrive.
We interviewed our intrepid 100% Guadalupe initiative leader, Lisa Brassell, to talk about the upcoming Guadalupe summit and to explore the challenges and solutions that are part of ensuring ten vital services for surviving and thriving across the rural county.
Creating a New Mexico where all children, students, and families thrive starts with ensuring vital services at a state-of-the-art one-stop service center in your county.
How does an entire state transform into a place where every child’s health and education are the top priorities? Take a sneak peek at our “Road to the 100% New Mexico Initiative” training day to see inspiration meet determination.
To address childhood, family, and community trauma and crime, now is the time to unite all of New Mexico’s stakeholders around solving the interconnected challenges of public safety, health, education, and housing.
We are constantly asked, how does a state address decades of poverty and all the problems associated with it when change is always so hard? The solution isn’t simple, but positive change arrives with humility, courage, persistence… and a plan.
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.
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.
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.
Our 100% Mural projects bring together students, families, and stakeholders with a message of healing, hope, and a call to action.
When a 100% New Mexico summit brings together county champions with a shared purpose, amazing things happen.
The 100% New Mexico County Survey provides local and state leaders with data illustrating service barriers that harm families.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Five years after the publication of Anna, Age Eight, the third grader’s story continues to inspire action.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 celebrates their community through a new mural as documented in a new inspiring video.
County and city resolutions are sending a strong message that local government plays an important role in ensuring vital services for families.
Our healthcare crisis can serve as the catalyst to implement visionary reforms to ensure the health of every New Mexican.
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.
We’re grateful for the hundreds of New Mexicans engaged in the groundbreaking 100% New Mexico initiative who are strengthening a culture of caring.
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.
We asked Ginny Adame, member of the County Wellness Council, how the 100% New Mexico initiative is helping them get to positive health outcomes.
We asked the 100% Socorro initiative leader, Dr. Sharon Sessions, how their 100% County Summit will showcase the work of ensuring 10 vital services.
What are the barriers to the ten vital services for surviving and thriving and how does the 100% New Mexico initiative remove them?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Independent evaluation experts are asking, “What’s meaningful, measurable, and worth watching closely?”
An incredible evening of art, music, and hope in Española, New Mexico to support the 100% Rio Arriba initiative.
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.
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.
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.
Exploring how each county can ensure ten vital services for surviving and thriving.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 can focus our energies on both self-care and healing traumatized families across New Mexico.
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.
What does health equity mean to real families living in this era of disruptions to school, healthcare, jobs, and social services?
Taos County commissioners are sending a powerful public statement to all county residents in the form of a resolution.
The 100% Power Hour webinar series focuses on the vital skills of strengthening family services through assessing, planning, action and evaluation.
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.”
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.
Within our unending epidemic of childhood trauma and crushing social adversity, it’s time to prioritize the right of children to survive and thrive.
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.
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.
Change agent Kathy Price shares how she’s starting the groundbreaking initiative 100% New Mexico in San Juan county.
We explore how, in the era of endless crises, super-sized brainstorming can lead to thriving families, schools and communities
The community schools model can increase academic achievement and help students and their families prevent adverse childhood experiences and treat trauma.
We share a tragic story at the New Mexico Roundhouse during Anna, Age Eight Day to prevent it from ever happening again.
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.
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.