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This page provides residents with an overview of how the county-based initiative works. We also provide a list of Anna, Age Eight Institute team members.
Each county-based 100% New Mexico initiative is taking on our biggest challenges that include preventing ACEs and their costly health and education consequences. They are empowered by a shared vision, goals and interconnected activities. They also have a shared understanding of how countywide collaboration, data, technology and communication strengthen their capacity to make measurable and meaningful change.
7 STEPS TO 100%
100% New Mexico is a multidisciplinary team, representing ten service sectors, identifying gaps in vital service areas and addressing them through a process of assessing, planning, action and evaluation. The ten action teams collaborate with all service providers in the ten “surviving” and “thriving” service areas to create a seamless system of accessible care and empowerment. This countywide system will not only prevent ACEs and social adversity, but it will protect all residents from the consequences of a public health crisis and economic disruption.
Image 1. 100% New Mexico structure.
Leadership Team: Oversees the short, intermediate and long-term projects, all focused on ending barriers to vital services and increasing the health, safety and resilience of 100% of county residents.
Resource Directory Team: Oversees the service directory, which directs residents to ten vital services. This team works to ensure that all the information about services is up to date.
Task Force on Histories and Cultures: Provides a historical overview and perspective on historical disparities and historical trauma, including progress being made to ensure racial equity.
Media and Public Awareness Team: Works with all local media producers to share updates on the initiative, recruit new members and engage all residents in initiative activities. This multi-disciplinary team includes artists, writers, muralists, storytellers and filmmakers.
Image 2. 100% New Mexico Leadership Teams structure.
Action Teams: There are ten of these, each one focused on one of the ten vital services for surviving and thriving.
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.
Project Developers are key members of each action team, developing projects that may be short or long term. Skills that will be helpful in this task include: project management, including assessing, planning, action and evaluation.
Local Government Outreach Members have a vital role in supporting project development, strengthening relationships with city and county lawmakers and program leadership, as well as school board members and school community leadership.
Image 3. 100% New Mexico Action Teams structure.
PARTNERSHIPS ARE VITAL
100% New Mexico is focused on partnerships and alignment of all county and city programming focused on supporting our children, students, parents, caregiving grandparents and elders. Our work defines the term collaboration as we build a culture of caring where healing and helping are the priority. The team follows the 100% New Mexico Framework for Change. County residents of all ages are welcome to join us in our mission. To learn more about supporting and joining 100% New Mexico in your county, please visit contact.
100% New Mexico County Team Leaders
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Anna, Age Eight/NMSU Team Members
Dr. Katherine Ortega Courtney
Katherine Ortega Courtney, PhD. is a changemaker, psychologist, author, and life coach. Her work in child welfare advocacy has instilled change in data-driven trauma prevention in states across the country. She has worked in policy and research and has led community initiatives through her work at the Santa Fe Community Foundation and the New Mexico Early Childhood Development Partnership. As a psychologist and life coach, she coaches individuals and organizations on interrupting the cycles of trauma, addressing the burnout rate in government jobs and child welfare, and providing the tools and skills to achieve the work-life balance that will trickle down to better outcomes in prevention. Her doctorate work at Texas Christian University was in experimental psychology focused on substance abuse treatment and prevention. She is also the co-author, with Dominic Cappello, of Anna, Age Eight: The data-driven prevention of childhood trauma and maltreatment, which served as a catalyst for the development of the Anna, Age Eight Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she serves as co-director. Dr. Ortega Courtney and Dominic Cappello wrote the follow-up book 100% Community to guide local leadership in every county in their work designing trauma-free and truly family-friendly cities and towns. Email: koc@nmsu.edu
Dominic Cappello
Cappello is a New York Times bestselling author and TEDx Conference curator with decades of experience advocating for health, safety and education. He has a Master of Arts in Liberal studies with an emphasis on Language and Communication from Regis University. He worked for the New Mexico Department of Health Epidemiology and Response Division and the New Mexico Child Protective Services Research, Assessment and Data Bureau, where he co-developed the Data Leader for Child Welfare program, which he implemented in New York City, Connecticut and New Mexico. Cappello is the creator of the Ten Talks book series on family safety that gained a national audience when he discussed his work on the Oprah Winfrey Show. He is also the co-author of Anna, Age Eight: The data-driven prevention of childhood trauma and maltreatment, which served as a catalyst for the development of the Anna, Age Eight Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he serves as co-director. Cappello and Dr. Ortega Courtney wrote the follow-up book 100% Community to guide local leadership in every county in their work designing trauma-free and truly family-friendly cities and towns. Email: cappello@nmsu.edu
Gregory Sherrow
Gregory began as an educator, but his early career sharply veered off into the world of information technology and web-based enterprises, giving Gregory decades of experience in creating educational, nonprofit, and commercial technology solutions. He has architected learning management systems for the Data Leaders for Child Welfare program in New Mexico, Connecticut, and New York City; he developed the technology prototypes for the Safety+Success learning management systems focused on family safety and health piloted in South Carolina and New Mexico; and his learning management system clients have included state departments of health, state departments of education and offices of attorneys general. Over the last decade and a half, he has become an author and resource for remote work management strategies and a proponent of using technology to positively empower agencies and communities while strengthening national, state, and local systems of public health, safety, and education. Email: gsherrow@nmsu.edu
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Marangellie Trujillo
Marangellie has over 15 years of experience in initiating and developing collaborative partnerships with communities, organizations, and institutions; and in leading, planning and implementing statewide health-related and educational programs. Recently, she led and advanced the community schools strategy in New Mexico, directed the ECHO for Community Schools Program, facilitated statewide performance management systems, and conducted research and evaluation. Marangellie’s academic background is in science (Bachelor of Science in Cellular and Molecular Biology from Universidad Metropolitana in Puerto Rico; Master’s in Biotechnology with a concentration in Biodefense from The Johns Hopkins University in Maryland), communicable and infectious diseases, public health, and education, among others. Marangellie values the strength of New Mexico’s diverse communities, the multilingualism, resilience, creativity, culture, and compassion for one another. She strives to create a culture of shared governance, where we can rethink school-community relationships, and can re-define the core values of parents as first teachers. Marangellie firmly believes in community schools as an equitable strategy that will transform education and positively change the social determinants of health for the children of New Mexico. She is committed in making this vision a reality. Email: maratru@nmsu.edu