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This page provides all residents with an overview of the evaluation process being used within the 100% New Mexico initiative.
ARE WE GETTING TO RESULTS?
Our 100% New Mexico initiative is, quite simply, committed to ensuring that all our children’s lives can be trauma-free and all our family households can be healthy, safe, and self-sufficient. To create the family, school, and community environments that provide our infants, children, students, and youth with the best chance at surviving and thriving, we are working to ensure that each county provides timely access to ten vital services. The well-being of every family in New Mexico depends on access to these services in order to create households that are healthy, safe, and self-sufficient. With our children’s safety in the balance, we are an initiative that can’t afford to fail.
Our initiative is guided by the social-ecological model. It is a framework that can guide local initiatives if they have a solid economic foundation from which to work. Each component of the model can be evaluated to assess positive change within a county and across a state.
TURNING RESEARCH INTO REAL WORLD SOLUTIONS
The socio-ecological model (SEM) was first introduced as a conceptual model for understanding human development and was developed and formalized as a theory by psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner in the 1970s and 1980s. The use of the term “social-ecological system” (SES) in scientific literature has grown. This model illustrates how behaviors form based on characteristics of individuals, communities, cities, states, nations, and levels in between.
In examining how these “levels” interact, community health advocates can develop strategies to promote well-being and ensure vital services with a comprehensive plan that acknowledges the role of the individual, family relationships, community relationships, and political agents within larger political systems.
Image 1. The Social-Ecological Model. This model illustrates how change can be supported on many levels.
OUR CHALLENGE AND OPPORTUNITY
100% New Mexico is guided by robust evaluation provided by Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago focuses on a mission of improving the well-being of children and youth, families, and their communities.
Chapin Hall combines rigorous research methods and real-world policy expertise to accelerate the use of data and evidence in policy making and program implementation. Longstanding partnerships with government agencies, nonprofits, and philanthropy are at the heart of our approach.
Anna, Age Institute Research Briefs
Anna, Age Eight Institute Research Brief 2023
Identifying the real reason our children suffer won’t be found on mass media or social media. Those serious about ending epidemic rates of childhood adversity know to look to research. Amid ongoing calls to dismantle child welfare and scrutiny focused on all local government responses to abuse and neglect, answers arrive in an article most of the public will never see. New Mexico is the focus of the Research Brief “Why Assess A State’s Social Determinants of Health” written by researchers from Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. The research brief is focused on the NMSU Anna, Age Eight Institute’s 100% New Mexico initiative, which is the nation’s first university-sponsored statewide collective impact project focused on addressing the root causes of childhood adversity. Simply put, the researchers are asking,” Why is NMSU investing their time, energy, and resources working in each county to identify what is harming our children, students, and families?” The answer can be found in the following four words: social determinants of health (and it is not a term used often in the public sphere).
OUR CHALLENGE AND OPPORTUNITY
100% New Mexico is guided by robust evaluation provided by Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago. Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago focuses on a mission of improving the well-being of children and youth, families, and their communities.
Chapin Hall combines rigorous research methods and real-world policy expertise to accelerate the use of data and evidence in policy making and program implementation. Longstanding partnerships with government agencies, nonprofits, and philanthropy are at the heart of our approach.
Evaluation Reports of NMSU’s 100% New Mexico Initiative
Read more about the evaluation process
For more information about our evaluation process and our evaluation work with Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, please contact us.