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100% CHAVES

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.

Continue to learn more and enroll in one of our courses to make real change happen in your community.

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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.

WATCH: THE ROAD TO CHAVES

“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.

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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.

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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.

At-a-glance summary of the latest report. Download the full report to better understand these results.
A SOLUTION

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

COUNTY STAKEHOLDERS

The local initiative is a collaborative effort, with community members at its core, to create a county where all children, students, and families have access to ten essential services for surviving and thriving. This vision is realized through the active engagement of local innovators, leaders in local governments, and family-serving organizations. The initiative is designed to develop programs, policies, and funding strategies to enhance service access, which may involve the establishment of community-based and school-based one-stop service hubs. For more information, contact us.

INSTITUTE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TEAM

The local initiative is part of the university’s statewide strategy to address significant barriers to healthcare, food, housing, and transportation security, among other vital services, that are jeopardizing the well-being of children, students, and families. The Anna, Age Eight Institute team supports local stakeholders in capacity building and fostering partnerships with state, county, city, and school governments, as well as philanthropy, to ensure residents’ access to the services that determine the quality of life—called the social determinants of health. Contact the institute at annaageeight@nmsu.edu.

INSPIRED?

Did you know? Our transformational 100% New Mexico initiative is guided by web-based, self-paced courses provided free to all New Mexicans.

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Receive a certificate of completion for each course successfully completed. Some training hours may be eligible for CEUs. Contact your CEU sponsoring organization to confirm. Course hours may also serve to meet community service-related assignments within high school and higher education.
Receive a certificate of completion for each course successfully completed. Some training hours may be eligible for CEUs. Contact your CEU sponsoring organization to confirm. Course hours may also serve to meet community service-related assignments within high school and higher education.
Receive a certificate of completion for each course successfully completed. Some training hours may be eligible for CEUs. Contact your CEU sponsoring organization to confirm. Course hours may also serve to meet community service-related assignments within high school and higher education.
Receive a certificate of completion for each course successfully completed. Some training hours may be eligible for CEUs. Contact your CEU sponsoring organization to confirm. Course hours may also serve to meet community service-related assignments within high school and higher education.

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