The Tremendous Power of New Mexico Today
It’s New Mexico’s state government, not Washington, DC, that holds the key to our quality of life.
100% New Mexico
100% Gratitude
In our ever-changing and fast-paced world, we are taking a moment to express sincere gratitude.
Learning, Healing, and the Role of Schools in Grant County
An in-service event for 600 educators in Grant County shows how schools play a pivotal role in both preventing and addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences, strengthening student health, safety, and academic achievement.
The Power of Reflection in Times of Change
The transformative power of reflection helps us navigate uncertainty and discover new opportunities.
A “100%” Conversation in Silver City
Discussing adverse childhood experiences with the school community offers a powerful opportunity for identifying challenges and solving them.
An Emmy? $100 Million? What’s Next?
We’ve been told that good news comes in threes. We hope luck is on our side. What’s next on the cards for the 100% New Mexico initiative?
Giving Family Resource Centers Super Powers
Explore ten questions that illustrate how New Mexico is creating a model for Family Resource Centers including why it’s so important.
100% Border Health, Safety, and Economic Development
Presenting the 100% New Mexico initiative to Mexican and US lawmakers from border states.
The Story Behind Our Emmy Award Nomination for “Road to 100%”
The Emmy® nomination for the “Road to 100% Chaves” documentary brings state and national recognition to the groundbreaking efforts of the 100% New Mexico initiative.
New Mexico at a Crossroads: Choosing a Future for 100%
New Mexico has the financial assets and expertise to change its trajectory. As a New Mexican, which future do you want to work towards?
Emmy Nomination Spotlights Groundbreaking Work of 100% New Mexico Initiative
The 47th Rocky Mountain Emmy® Awards nominated our video “On the Road to 100% Chaves” in the category “Special Concerns Content.”
New Mexico’s “100 and Change”
The MacArthur Foundation is seeking to fund a proposal to change the world with $100 million. The 100% New Mexico initiative is the perfect candidate.
Creating New Mexico’s Capacity to Heal
We provide the short and long answer to the question: What can New Mexico’s state and local leaders do to join our 100% mission to protect its children and solve its most costly public health, education, and safety challenges?
Making 100% Tamales in San Juan County
Just as making tamales brings families and friends together in a joyous, collective effort, the 100% San Juan initiative is the recipe to unite the community with a shared vision of ensuring ten vital services for all families.
Why 10 Vital Services Are Critical to Every Public Health, Safety, and Education Project
If you are working on preventing opioid addiction or other substance use disorders, illness, injury, violence, child neglect, abuse and trauma, low student achievement, lack of job readiness, or crime your success depends on using the social drivers of health framework. This is a plan to ensure ten vital services for surviving and thriving. Failure to do so will lead to a lack of positive outcomes.
You Have a Date with Julius
Meet Julius, who can analyze data in seconds and offers insights into turning data on family services and barriers into action.
The Burden and Gift of Sight
Seeing the challenges our children endure is not easy, yet it’s how we heal our families.
A BernCo Summit to Shape the Future
A brighter future is on the horizon for Bernalillo County thanks to a transformative initiative and the heroes working to make it a reality.
100% Socorro Summit Makes It All Possible
Socorro County families have dedicated heroes working tirelessly on an initiative that will transform lives. Meet them at the 100% Socorro Summit in June.
NM Attorney General Torrez on Public Safety and Health
How public safety and the goals of the 100% New Mexico initiative can align to ensure all children, families, and communities can thrive.
Fast-Tracking toward a Future Where 100% Can Thrive
The velocity of change is startling, disruptive, and provides an opportunity to transform society in positive ways.
Who Wants Pi(e)?
After a 100% New Mexico Summit, partnering with the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant called Pi can strengthen the work of local initiatives as they build the systems of support for all families.
The River, the Footbridge, and the Super Highway
Once upon a time, a teacher heard cries for help. Her actions show how New Mexico can become a place where all children can live happy and healthy lives. Can we learn that lesson before it’s too late?
Santa Fe’s Amazing Opportunity to Shine
Attend the 100% Santa Fe Summit to explore how you can ensure 100% of families can access the vital services for surviving and thriving.
Why the Nation Can’t Fix Itself but New Mexico Can
Explore what the 100% New Mexico initiative has accomplished in five years and what we can now do with the buy-in of New Mexico’s visionary leaders, united in a common cause to ensure every child, student, and family can access the services to thrive.
How Can ChatGPT Help Ensure 10 Vital Services for All Families?
Explore the power of artificial intelligence (AI) growing leaps and bounds with ChatGPT, a powerful tool for 100% New Mexico initiative work focused on community well-being and ensuring vital services for all.
While Families Struggle to Access Services, a Bold Solution Exists
Chapin Hall University of Chicago report identifies service disparities and the transformative potential of the 100% New Mexico initiative.
What We Discovered on Our 5-Year Road Trip to 100% New Mexico
Over the last five years, we have been blessed to find rich cultures, revolutionary creativity, courageous collaboration, innovative technology, and powerful problem-solving, all with a unique New Mexican flavor.
$100 Million and Change
In a world where bold visions collide with unforeseen challenges, the Anna, Age Eight Institute stood on the brink of a groundbreaking opportunity.
Can Perplexity Help Achieve 100% New Mexico’s Mission?
Discover funding, write better articles, uncover data, encourage creativity, find solutions, and create revolutionary projects. All that? Really?
High-Velocity Problem-Solving at the 100% Family Center
Our 100% Family Center: One Stop Service Hubs are more than a service connecting families to resources, they are a resource generation hub. How does this happen?
Q&A: 100% Rio Arriba Summit, Well-Being, and the Arts
Diego López, 100% Rio Arriba initiative leader, filmmaker, and artist, shares his perspective on the power of community, having a shared vision of well-being for 100%, and the role of the arts in local vitalization in Española.
Q&A: 100% Valencia Summit, Vision, and Opportunities
In this Q&A, Dominic Cappello interviews Ginny Adame. These seasoned change agents have a rich history of over a decade working together in Valencia County, engaged in numerous initiatives associated with the county health council. Join us as Ginny Adame shares her perspectives on improving communities and the upcoming 100% Valencia Summit.
In Order to Save the Child, You Must Save the System
When considering how to “fix” Child Welfare, it’s vital not to confuse the strategies, staff, and frameworks for prevention with those required for intervention.
How was child welfare set up to fail Anna?
Eight-year-old Anna was set up to fail from the very beginning and the tragedy of her death has not resulted in the necessary change to prevent another child from falling between the cracks. How did this happen?
How Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) Make Childhoods Safer?
Ensuring ten vital services for surviving and thriving are accessible to 100% of New Mexico’s children and families is exhausting work. How might AI make the process easier, faster, and more efficient?
Could We Have Prevented Anna’s Fatality?
We are asking courageous questions five years after her story launched the Anna, Age Eight Institute.
Who was eight-year-old Anna?
A Child Welfare case so tragic that it reduced an entire state to stunned silence. Can we stop it happening again?
An Eight-Year-Old Girl Who Fell through the Cracks
This is the story of an eight-year-old girl who was failed by every system that was supposed to keep her safe. It’s also a story with an ending that is still being written.
True or False: We Can Invest in 100% of New Mexico’s Children
Creating a New Mexico where childhood is trauma-free is only possible when we make every child’s health, safety, and education the number one priority. We have the proposal for a groundbreaking strategy ready to implement.
Are We Comfortably Numb or Active Change Agents?
Distracted and disempowered by the mass media, social media, and the entertainment industry, do we have the steadfast courage to focus our attention on the harm being done to our children today? The answer may surprise you.
An Infant, a Motel Room, and a Pile of Needles: How We Set Up a Vital Institution to Fail
Fixing child welfare to ensure the safety of our children can be done, but only by doing what’s never been tried in New Mexico.
Otero County Giving It 100% and More
Our dedicated 100% Otero initiative leaders, Peg Crim and Lisa Yehle, took a few minutes to speak to us while preparing for the upcoming 100% Otero Summit on February 8th. As you will see, there’s much to get ready for.
100% New Mexico: Five Years Ago and Five Years from Now
You’re invited to explore the visionary future of New Mexico, a state where 100% of our children, students, and families can thrive.
On the Road to a 100% Guadalupe County Summit
We interviewed our intrepid 100% Guadalupe initiative leader, Lisa Brassell, to talk about the upcoming Guadalupe summit and to explore the challenges and solutions that are part of ensuring ten vital services for surviving and thriving across the rural county.
10 Questions about Launching the 100% Family Centers
Creating a New Mexico where all children, students, and families thrive starts with ensuring vital services at a state-of-the-art one-stop service center in your county.
Finding Joy and Meaning on the Road to 100%
How does an entire state transform into a place where every child’s health and education are the top priorities? Take a sneak peek at our “Road to the 100% New Mexico Initiative” training day to see inspiration meet determination.
NM Attorney General Calls for a Generational Commitment to Solve Our Safety Challenges
To address childhood, family, and community trauma and crime, now is the time to unite all of New Mexico’s stakeholders around solving the interconnected challenges of public safety, health, education, and housing.
How Is New Mexico Doing What’s Never Been Done?
We are constantly asked, how does a state address decades of poverty and all the problems associated with it when change is always so hard? The solution isn’t simple, but positive change arrives with humility, courage, persistence… and a plan.
How Do We Fund a County Where 100% of Families Can Thrive?
The groundbreaking 100% New Mexico initiative shares the vision with every county of creating a seamless system of ten accessible services for surviving and thriving.
How Are Book Clubs a Catalyst for Powerful Change?
The local 100% New Mexico initiative Anna, Age Eight books clubs started a movement. Here’s how you grow the change process with readers and leaders.
How Do Families Find Vital Services for Surviving and Thriving?
Finding affordable local services is still challenging while we swim in a sea of information. A fact-checked and constantly updated Family Service Directory can change that.
How Are 100% Community Murals Inspiring Change?
Our 100% Mural projects bring together students, families, and stakeholders with a message of healing, hope, and a call to action.
How Does a Local 100% New Mexico Summit Inspire Powerful Change?
When a 100% New Mexico summit brings together county champions with a shared purpose, amazing things happen.
How Do We Know Which Vital Services Families Can’t Reach and Why?
The 100% New Mexico County Survey provides local and state leaders with data illustrating service barriers that harm families.
How Does a 100% New Mexico Champion Guide Groundbreaking Work?
Overseeing transformational change across an entire county and working to ensure families’ access to vital services is the heroic work of 100% New Mexico initiative coordinators. This is how it’s done.
A New Course Takes 100%ers on the Road to Solutions
Don’t miss the new on-location “Road to the 100% New Mexico Initiative” training! It’s guaranteed to provide new insights, resources, and strategies for our local leaders.
Learn “How to 100%” in Just Minutes
Our new “How to 100%” course is free and fast, teaching you how to grow the local 100% New Mexico initiative to create safe childhoods for all.
How Do You Design a 100% Family Center?
Our new “The 100% Family Center” course provides participants with all the steps to design and identify funding for the groundbreaking one-stop service hub.
Anna’s Story Still Has to Be Told
Five years after the publication of Anna, Age Eight, the third grader’s story continues to inspire action.
Improving Childhoods in Otero County
From birth to age five, a child’s brain develops more than at any other time in life. The quality of a child’s experiences in the first few years of life-positive or negative-helps shape how their brain develops. 100% Otero’s Early Childhood Learning Team works to make sure parents and guardians have access to all they need to provide the best possible experience for their young children.
Champions See Where We Can Be Tomorrow
Working collectively to ensure 10 vital services, the 100% New Mexico initiative is transforming our state into a society that empowers 100% of its children, students, and families.
Can a Robot Help Ensure Our Children Survive and Thrive?
Using my critical thinking and fact-checking powers to confirm what’s written, I took ChatGPT out for a test run to test its artificial intelligence skills. The results might surprise you.
7 Steps to Ensure Our Children Survive and Thrive
The 100% New Mexico initiative provides an ever-growing number of visionary and courageous county stakeholders with the seven steps to transform communities by ensuring access to vital services.
Santa Fe’s Challenges and Opportunities Await
A new NMSU Anna, Age Eight Institute report illustrates the challenges Santa Fe’s families endure as they seek to access the services for surviving and thriving. The data provide a starting point for powerful transformation to ensure every child and student can thrive.
What Does “A Child’s Right to Survive and Thrive” Mean?
Do the children of New Mexico have the right to survive? Should all infants, children, and students have the right to thrive? Rights to services? Moral rights? Our new course explores these vital questions.
“There’s an App for That.” Even a Family Services Directory?
In this interview with Hagerman City Councilor and 100% Chaves County initiative leader Dan Jennings, we explore his other “hat” as an app designer and web guru using technology to serve families.
Concerned for the Well-Being of 100%
In society’s fight between altruism and apathy, the 100% New Mexico initiative works for the selfless caring of all our children, families, and communities.
San Miguel County 100% Resolution Sends an Important Message
Across New Mexico, county leaders are showing their support through resolutions that detail their commitment to ensuring ten vital services for surviving and thriving.
100% Taos Mural Celebrates a Community
100% Taos celebrates their community through a new mural as documented in a new inspiring video.
Town of Hagerman, NM Signs Resolution for 100% Chaves
County and city resolutions are sending a strong message that local government plays an important role in ensuring vital services for families.
Seven Steps to Revolutionize Healthcare
Our healthcare crisis can serve as the catalyst to implement visionary reforms to ensure the health of every New Mexican.
Who Knows What Will Happen to Us Next Year?
What’s newsworthy is that half the state’s counties are working with the 100% New Mexico initiative to do what’s been called “impossible” by ensuring every child has access to ten vital services for surviving and thriving.
So Thankful We Can Unite to Heal, Help, and Inspire
We’re grateful for the hundreds of New Mexicans engaged in the groundbreaking 100% New Mexico initiative who are strengthening a culture of caring.
Let’s stop and ask, where Is New Mexico Going?
With the flurry of elections behind us, we are examining the status quo to provide a guide to a future where New Mexico’s children, students, and families can thrive.
100% Valencia’s Initiative Superpowers
We asked Ginny Adame, member of the County Wellness Council, how the 100% New Mexico initiative is helping them get to positive health outcomes.
100% Socorro to Showcase Visionary Work
We asked the 100% Socorro initiative leader, Dr. Sharon Sessions, how their 100% County Summit will showcase the work of ensuring 10 vital services.
We Might Get You an Appointment in 3 Months
What are the barriers to the ten vital services for surviving and thriving and how does the 100% New Mexico initiative remove them?
Prioritizing You So You Can Help Others
We explore the concept of prioritizing one’s own emotional and physical health in order to heal one’s community through the work of the 100% New Mexico initiative.
Las Cruces Mural Builds Community and Hope
In our interview with Raquel Madrigal, artist for the 100% Community Mural in Las Cruces, we discuss what the new mural means to her, the community of Las Cruces, and Doña Ana County.
Report from the field: Mural Monday in Farmington
The 100% New Mexico, Seeds of Opportunity Mural was created to uniquely represent the thriving community that 100% San Juan strives to promote. Painted by local artist, Christy Clugston and friends, it is framed in the geographical state outline of New Mexico.
Wouldn’t Focusing on One Service Be Much Easier?
We are often asked, why ten services? Wouldn’t it be easier to just focus on one at a time? The truth is, what’s easy isn’t always better.
Art as Medicina: The 100% Otero Mural
Jazmín Sáenz, Artist and Chaparral local, spoke to the Anna Age Eight Institute about the mural process and what the Mural means to the community.
What Does Evaluating 100% New Mexico Mean?
Independent evaluation experts are asking, “What’s meaningful, measurable, and worth watching closely?”
Experiencing the 100% Cultura Mural Celebration
An incredible evening of art, music, and hope in Española, New Mexico to support the 100% Rio Arriba initiative.
Mentoring 100% of Our Children and Youth
We know the benefits of youth mentoring can include increased school engagement and achievement and a delay in the use of alcohol and other mind-altering substances. Explore how your county can meet the challenge of ensuring a mentor for every child and youth.
Curry & Roosevelt Counties Aim for 100%
In our interview with Sarah Long, the new coordinator for our Curry and Roosevelt County initiative, we explore how eastern New Mexico is innovating to ensure ten vital services for surviving and thriving.
100% Cultura! A 100% Mural Celebration
You’re invited June 25th to an inspiring community celebration in Española, part of the 100% Rio Arriba initiative to ensure vital services for all families.
Seven Steps to a Future When 100% Thrive
Exploring how each county can ensure ten vital services for surviving and thriving.
A Local Force for Health and Equity
Join us as we explore the power of New Mexico’s county health council system with Sharon Finarelli with the NM Alliance for Health Councils.
100%: The Long Game vs Quick Fixes
We explore how New Mexico’s 100% New Mexico initiative teams understand that building back better to ensure resilient families means a multi-year plan.
If Only Our Communities’ Problems Had an Edit Button
A voice calls up from below. It’s hoarse and powered by a rasping breath, but I can’t make out the words. I look over my laptop and it’s the skinny man from the steps. He’s standing directly below me and pulling at the shoulder of his shirt.
Evaluating 100% (the Important Details Version)
The 100% New Mexico initiative is working to do what no other state has attempted. Evaluators are measuring the capacity of local stakeholders to strengthen each family’s access to the ten vital services for surviving and thriving at the county level.
Evaluation Answers the Question “Are We There Yet?”
The 100% New Mexico initiative is a data-driven initiative committed to measurable and meaningful change focused on preventing childhood adversity by ensuring vital services for surviving and thriving. With our children’s safety in the balance, we are an initiative that can’t afford to fail.
Rebranding “Child Abuse Prevention Month”
Important messages about ensuring our children’s right to live abuse-free are promoted throughout Child Abuse Prevention Month. Amid an epidemic of abuse and neglect, this work is now required every day of the week throughout the year.
How McKinley County, NM Reaches 100%
UNM-Gallup professor Dr. Tracy Lassiter seeks to grow 100% McKinley, creating an engine to ensure ten vital services for surviving and thriving to address adverse childhood experiences, family trauma, and social adversity.
Where Are We and Are We There Yet?
As a society we are emerging from one phase but have not arrived at the next one. We are in an emotional state that psychologists call liminality.
Leveraging Your Leadership Moment
In this era of transition and possibility, we explore the need for a new kind of leadership with Eric Martin from Adaptive Change Advisors.
We Heal Ourselves by Healing Our Communities
We can focus our energies on both self-care and healing traumatized families across New Mexico.
Why Counties Turn to School-Based Health Care
If the pandemic taught us anything, it’s that we need to strengthen our statewide system of health care. School-based health turns each school into a hub for accessible care for students and their families. We ask Nancy Rodriguez with the New Mexico Alliance for School-Based Health about her mission.