RESEARCH GUIDES OUR WORK

The 100% New Mexico initiative is evaluated as a population-level strategy to ensure that all children grow up free from preventable trauma and that families are healthy, safe, and self-sufficient. Evaluation focuses on how counties, including local governments and nongovernmental organizations, build environments that provide timely access to ten vital services and, in public health terms, how they transform adverse social determinants of health–lack of service access– into positive ones–access to quality and timely services with barriers removed.

Independent evaluators at Chapin Hall examine whether counties are expanding access to behavioral health care, safe and affordable housing, food security, transportation, and other core determinants, and how these changes affect family well-being. Findings are shared through peer-reviewed articles, research briefs, and reports that document implementation processes, barriers, facilitators, and measurable progress across urban and rural New Mexico.

The goal of the 100% New Mexico initiative—making ten vital services accessible to all families—is a monumental public health undertaking with short-, intermediate-, and long-term targets. It requires strong buy-in from visionary leaders in every level of government, alongside sustained public support, and these are the core elements of this groundbreaking work that ongoing evaluation is designed to track.