Building a Thriving New Mexico
for all Families
Every child and family in New Mexico deserves access to the vital services needed to survive and thrive, including healthcare, behavioral health care, safe housing, nutritious food, reliable transportation, parent supports, early childhood programs, community schools with family resource centers, youth mentors, and job training. These ten vital services represent the social determinants of health—the conditions that shape lifelong health, safety, and opportunity.
The 100% New Mexico Initiative, a university-based partnership and program of NMSU’s Anna, Age Eight Institute, operationalizes the social determinants of health into a clear, actionable framework that counties can use to drive prevention and systems change. The initiative supports counties as they lead bold, locally driven projects to make vital services affordable and accessible for all residents.
Working in partnership with county teams, the initiative helps build coordinated, prevention-focused systems that ensure access to all ten vital services for surviving and thriving. Achieving this audacious goal requires collaboration among residents, community mobilizers, government leaders, and public and private partners, all working together to make New Mexico the safest place to be a child and to raise a family.
Our Mission
The mission of the 100% New Mexico Initiative is to ensure that 100% of families can access the ten vital services needed to survive and thrive.
We help county teams build prevention-focused systems that ensure access to vital services that reduce adverse childhood experiences, trauma, substance use disorders, and the long-term public health and safety costs they create. Through tailored technical assistance that moves data into action, we support survey design and implementation, strategic storytelling and video production, proposal development, and web infrastructure—all aligned with one goal: securing ten vital services for 100% of families.
How We Work
- Counties Lead: Local leaders, service providers, and advocates design and direct projects responding to community needs.
- We Support: Our state initiative provides the resources and expertise counties need to collect data, communicate impact, secure funding, and build effective, sustainable networks.
- Collaboration for Change: Together, we share successes, learn from challenges, and drive measurable progress toward ensuring that 100% of families can access the ten vital services needed to survive and thrive.
Ensuring 10 vital services with key projects
100% County Initiative Leaders Support: We provide technical assistance to local leaders and teams to help them assess needs, plan and implement solutions, and evaluate progress toward initiative goals.
100% Action Team Leaders Training: We offer online and onsite training to leaders in ten sectors as they identify service barriers and work with government and community partners to ensure access to services, aligning efforts to build a seamless county system of support.
Family Resource Center Developers: Using county survey data on service barriers, the initiative supports the development of 100% Family Centers, school- or community-based one-stop hubs that connect families to services through onsite support, web tools, and navigator-guided referrals, creating a coordinated local network.
100% Services Directory: We maintain a statewide, AI-enhanced directory of ten vital services across New Mexico, highlighting providers that remove cost as a barrier through free, sliding-scale, or insurance-based options.
The Child and Family Services System Blueprint Project: This project provides New Mexico’s Legislature with an evidence-informed roadmap for strengthening child and family services statewide. By translating community input and data into a practical blueprint, the project informs policy decisions, funding priorities, and coordinated systems reform focused on prevention and family well-being.
Join Us
Whether you’re a parent, youth, educator, healthcare worker, service provider, or community advocate, there’s a place for you in your county team. Explore our ten core project areas, connect with local leaders, or request technical support to help spark change in your community.
Ready to get started?
Together, we can build a New Mexico where every child, every family, and every community has the opportunity and support to thrive.
Get Involved with your county initiative.
Bernalillo
Catron
Chaves
Curry
Doña Ana
Guadalupe
Lincoln
McKinley
Mora
Otero
Rio Arriba
Roosevelt
San Juan
Santa Fe
Socorro
Taos
Valencia
“The Road to 100%” is our video series highlighting the work of local champions rolling out the 100% New Mexico initiative. In 2024, our “Road to 100% Chaves” video was nominated for a Rocky Mountain Emmy award.
