How Can a New Website Help Solve Our Biggest Challenges?
NMSU Cooperative Extension’s 100% New Mexico Initiative launches new website to support public engagement in local initiative strategies to ensure trauma-free and healthy families.
by Dominic Cappello
November 23, 2021
The new 100% New Mexico site provides an overview of the 100% New Mexico initiative and links to all local 100% initiatives which include Dona Ana, San Miguel, Rio Arriba, Socorro, Valencia, Otero, Catron, Curry, Roosevelt, Santa Fe, Taos and Bernalillo county. It also provides an overview of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and trauma impacting our families, schools and workplaces. The “Spotlight on Health” page provides public health data on local challenges including hunger, joblessness, substance use disorders and other costly challenges often linked to trauma. The “Barriers & Solutions” page focuses on the county’s 100% New Mexico countywide survey focused on identifying gaps in ten services for surviving and thriving.
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Visitors to the new site can also learn about the 100% Mural project and public awareness programs, the 100% Family Services Directory, the 100% Community Schools project and the 100% Families Services project. The FAQ page provides users with answers to all the most asked questions about the 100% New Mexico initiative and how to get engaged in the groundbreaking community-building work.
The website supplements the main NMSU/Anna, Age Eight Institute website with links to research in the areas of adverse childhood experiences, social adversity and strengthening the ten vital services for surviving and thriving. The 100% New Mexico initiative’s websites provide to each county a virtual problem-solving center where local stakeholders and elected leaders collaborate to address each county’s biggest challenges.
Mission: The 100% New Mexico initiative is dedicated to ensuring that 100% of families can access ten vital services crucial for their overall health, resilience, and success. This university-sponsored endeavor necessitates the local implementation of evidence-based strategies encompassing both community and school-based service hubs, aiming to prevent the most pressing and costly public health and safety challenges, including adverse social determinants of health and adverse childhood experiences.
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.
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The 100% New Mexico initiative is a program of the Anna, Age Eight Institute at New Mexico State University, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, Cooperative Extension Service. Contact: annaageeight@nmsu.edu or visit annaageeight.nmsu.edu to learn more.
