The groundbreaking 100% Chaves initiative ensures that all families in the county have access to the ten vital services for surviving and thriving.
The truth is simple. The 100% Chaves initiative, a program of NMSU’s Anna, Age Eight Institute, provides Chaves County with a collaborative process for transforming under-resourced communities into fully-resourced environments, creating local access to services described in the book 100% Community: Ensuring ten vital services for surviving and thriving.
We know the challenges and how to fix them. All that’s lacking is the buy-in to make the health, safety, and education of 100% of Chaves’s and all of New Mexico’s children and students the number one priority.
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100% Chaves County initiative is a bold strategy designed to ensure 100% of our residents are protected. Our goal is to create trauma-free childhoods that lead to school achievement, community engagement, job readiness and a self-sufficient and healthy life in Roswell, Dexter, Hagerman and Lake Arthur New Mexico (NM). We’re committed to ensuring that the 10 services shown to empower children, students and families are accessible to all. In this app you can find these resources, request assistance, and connect with free tools to help.
“The Road to 100%” is our video series highlighting the innovative work of champions working within the 100% New Mexico initiatives across the state.
In this episode, we take a trip to Chaves County to learn how the 100% Chaves initiative is overcoming that county’s unique hurdles.
What determines our health?
The 100% Chaves initiative identifies the adverse social determinants of health in the form of families’ lack of access to vital services. These services, such as medical and behavioral healthcare, determine our quality of life with the capacity to prevent adverse childhood experiences, trauma, substance use disorders, and poor school achievement leading to a lack of job readiness. By guaranteeing services within Chaves County, we go upstream to prevent family involvement with child welfare, law enforcement, the courts, and emergency room care.
We’re ensuring ten vital services
The goal of the 100% Chaves initiative is to remove the barriers preventing families, students, and children from accessing the ten vital services for surviving and thriving: medical and dental care, behavioral health care, food security programs, housing security programs, transportation to reach services, parents supports, early childhood learning programs, fully-resourced community schools, youth mentor programs, and Job training.
WHY SERVICES ARE OUT OF REACH
When people in Chaves County say, “We refer families to services,” how do they know the services actually exist?
County stakeholders, including all local elected officials, can learn which services are easily available by surveying residents. Our 100% Chaves survey asks parents, students, and elders to what degree they can access support services and what the barriers to services might be.
Our goal is to ensure that 100% of families and community members in Chaves County have access to ten vital services, promoting the health, safety, and resilience of all county residents.
How Survey Results Guide Solutions
Explore the latest 100% Chaves County Survey to learn what’s easily available in all the communities within a county’s borders. This information is what guides the initiative’s ten action teams, each one focused on replacing service barriers with easy access.
We’re creating 100% Family Centers.
The 100% Chaves initiative county surveys reveal many barriers family members face when seeking services. The initiative addresses all barriers to ten family services by building the 100% Family Center: One Stop Service Hubs and community schools as 100% Service Hubs to increase access to all ten vital services through onsite, web-based, and navigator-supported linking to service providers. With one-stop-service hubs, we can confidently say, “We’re referring families to services.”
We have an important opportunity to bring every community stakeholder together to look at both historic and new challenges our children, students, and families face and ensure the services shown to strengthen resiliency.
—Dan Jennings, 100% Chaves initiative leader
THE 100% CHAVES INITIATIVE TEAM
The 100% Chaves initiative team is multidisciplinary, representing ten service sectors. The team identifies gaps in vital service areas then addresses them through a process of assessment, planning, action, and evaluation.
Action Team Leaders are responsible for monitoring the continuous quality improvement process (assessing, planning, action, and evaluation) as it relates to developing and implementing projects shown to remove barriers to vital services. Action Team leaders also take responsibility for convening and facilitating action team meetings focused on developing local projects. The leader also oversees the resource/service directory to ensure accuracy.
Want to join the team in Chaves County? Contact us.
Dan Jennings
Councilor and Director of HagermanForward, Inc.
100% Chaves Leadership Team
Tiffany Bailey-Armendariz
Molina Healthcare
100% Chaves Medical/Dental Team
Jesse Hernandez
Community Centered Consulting
100% Chaves Behavioral Health Team
LeeAnn Sandoval
Loaves and Fishes
100% Chaves Food Security Team
Erica Robey
Merrill Lynch
100% Chaves Housing Security Team
Becky Hicks
Roswell Transit
100% Chaves Transportation Team
Sally Green
RISD
100% Chaves Early Childhood Learning Team
Kristen Salyards
RISD
100% Chaves Community Schools Team
Lorrina Segovia
Wings for L.I.F.E.
100% Chaves Youth Mentoring Team
Dan Jennings
Councilor and Director of HagermanForward, Inc.
100% Chaves Leadership Team
Tiffany Bailey-Armendariz
Molina Healthcare
100% Chaves Medical/Dental Team
Jesse Hernandez
Community Centered Consulting
100% Chaves Behavioral Health Team
LeeAnn Sandoval
Loaves and Fishes
100% Chaves Food Security Team
Erica Robey
Merrill Lynch
100% Chaves Housing Security Team
Becky Hicks
Roswell Transit
100% Chaves Transportation Team
Sally Green
RISD
100% Chaves Early Childhood Learning Team
Kristen Salyards
RISD
100% Chaves Community Schools Team
Lorrina Segovia
Wings for L.I.F.E.
100% Chaves Youth Mentoring Team
Dan Jennings
Councilor and Director of HagermanForward, Inc.
100% Chaves Leadership Team
Tiffany Bailey-Armendariz
Molina Healthcare
100% Chaves Medical/Dental Team
Jesse Hernandez
Community Centered Consulting
100% Chaves Behavioral Health Team
LeeAnn Sandoval
Loaves and Fishes
100% Chaves Food Security Team
Erica Robey
Merrill Lynch
100% Chaves Housing Security Team
Becky Hicks
Roswell Transit
100% Chaves Transportation Team
Sally Green
RISD
100% Chaves Early Childhood Learning Team
Kristen Salyards
RISD
100% Chaves Community Schools Team
Lorrina Segovia
Wings for L.I.F.E.
100% Chaves Youth Mentoring Team
Dan Jennings
Councilor and Director of HagermanForward, Inc.
100% Chaves Leadership Team
Tiffany Bailey-Armendariz
Molina Healthcare
100% Chaves Medical/Dental Team
Jesse Hernandez
Community Centered Consulting
100% Chaves Behavioral Health Team
LeeAnn Sandoval
Loaves and Fishes
100% Chaves Food Security Team
Erica Robey
Merrill Lynch
100% Chaves Housing Security Team
Becky Hicks
Roswell Transit
100% Chaves Transportation Team
Sally Green
RISD
100% Chaves Early Childhood Learning Team
Kristen Salyards
RISD
100% Chaves Community Schools Team
Lorrina Segovia
Wings for L.I.F.E.
100% Chaves Youth Mentoring Team
Did you know? Our transformational 100% New Mexico initiative is guided by web-based, self-paced courses provided free to all New Mexicans.
INTRODUCTORY COURSE
What Happened to 8-Year-Old Anna?
In this groundbreaking course, “A Child’s Right to Survive & Thrive” course, 100% New Mexico initiative co-developers Dr. Katherine Ortega Courtney and Dominic Cappello, authors of Anna, Age Eight and 100% Community, introduce you to “Anna’s story” and the strategies to ensure 100% of children, students, and families can thrive.
Free
Self-Paced
Community
Community
ADVANCED COURSE
ROAD TO 100% TRAINING CENTER
The Road to 100% Training Center introduces initiative member to the “How To 100%” and the “Developing the 100% Family Center: One-Stop Service Hub” Courses. These courses provide initiative members with the skills and resources to ensure county residents have access to the ten vital services for surviving and thriving.
Free
Self-Paced
Community
Community
INTRODUCTORY COURSE
What Happened to 8-Year-Old Anna?
In this groundbreaking course, “A Child’s Right to Survive & Thrive” course, 100% New Mexico initiative co-developers Dr. Katherine Ortega Courtney and Dominic Cappello, authors of Anna, Age Eight and 100% Community, introduce you to “Anna’s story” and the strategies to ensure 100% of children, students, and families can thrive.
Free
Self-Paced
Community
Community
ADVANCED COURSE
ROAD TO 100% TRAINING CENTER
The Road to 100% Training Center introduces initiative member to the “How To 100%” and the “Developing the 100% Family Center: One-Stop Service Hub” Courses. These courses provide initiative members with the skills and resources to ensure county residents have access to the ten vital services for surviving and thriving.
Free
Self-Paced
Community
Community