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.
“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
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.
Dan Jennings
Councilor and Director of HagermanForward, Inc.
100% Chaves Leadership Team
Jesse Hernandez
Community Centered Consulting
100% Chaves Behavioral Health Team
Tiffany Bailey-Armendariz
Molina Healthcare
100% Chaves Medical/Dental 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
Jesse Hernandez
Community Centered Consulting
100% Chaves Behavioral Health Team
Tiffany Bailey-Armendariz
Molina Healthcare
100% Chaves Medical/Dental 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
Jesse Hernandez
Community Centered Consulting
100% Chaves Behavioral Health Team
Tiffany Bailey-Armendariz
Molina Healthcare
100% Chaves Medical/Dental 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
Jesse Hernandez
Community Centered Consulting
100% Chaves Behavioral Health Team
Tiffany Bailey-Armendariz
Molina Healthcare
100% Chaves Medical/Dental 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