100% Otero Resource Library

Providing an overview of the 100% New Mexico initiative, this important book guides local stakeholders in transforming the adverse social determinants of health into positive ones with step-by-step strategies for ensuring ten vital services for surviving and thriving. (3 copies to borrow)

While working in NM’s Child Protective Services Research Assessment and Data Bureau, a child in and out of the system eight times was returned to her deeply troubled mother who kicked her to death. The co-authors committed to do whatever it took to keep it from happening again. (12 copies to borrow)

Why is 14-year-old David struggling to survive in one of the wealthiest countries? Our children and families face a bleak reality devoid of essential services for surviving, let alone thriving. Explore how many of our vulnerable young people and parents are falling through the cracks in rural and urban America. (2 Copies to borrow)

Jessica Sinarski, LPCMH, and Zachary Kline. A children’s story of a little bear with big feelings as he faces his difficult emotions with the help of some big safe critters. Along the way, Riley learns how being brave isn’t just about being tough. Sometimes it’s even more courageous to ask for help. (2 copies to borrow)

Jessica Sinarski, LPCMH, and Zachary Kline. Some days Riley wakes up cheerful and ready to brave the day, but some days he wakes up feeling like a grumpy porcupine. When big feelings threaten to ruin the day, this story will inspire families to find their way through. (1 copy to borrow)

Jessica Sinarski, LPCMH and Zachary Kline. Riley wants to have fun at the fair, but he struggles just making it to school on the STINKY, NOISY bus! This book teaches children about senses through a playful story with strategies for emotion regulation. (1 copy to borrow)

This entire book can be reduced to three words: 100% can thrive. Today, children are growing up in environments described by public health as the adverse social determinants of health (SDOH), meaning the services that determine their health, safety, education, and overall quality of life are out of reach. (8 copies to borrow)

By Tracy Kidder. The story of Dr. Jim, a gifted man who organized a community of care for a city’s homeless population, including those who sleep on the streets—”rough sleepers.” (2 copies available to borrow)

By Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, and Maia Szalavitz. How does trauma affect a child’s mind and how can traumatized children recover? Dr. Perry explains what happens inside the brains of children exposed to extreme stress and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope. (2 copies available to borrow)

In a growing number of neighborhoods and school districts across the U.S., a community schools revolution is transforming public education for the better and providing a strategy for helping to tackle our country’s most serious problems, including extreme inequality and racial injustice. (7 copies to borrow)

The stunning news of Burke Harris’s research is just how deeply our bodies are imprinted by ACEs. Childhood adversity changes our biological systems over a lifetime. For anyone who faced a difficult childhood or who cares about the millions of children who do, there is hope for preventing lifelong illness. (2 copies to borrow)

If you seek to live in a state that provides accessible and quality healthcare, well-resourced high-performing public schools, accessible early childhood learning programs, support for caregiving grandparents, and safe public spaces free from violence, then the adventures in state policy presented by seasoned senator Dr. Soules is for you. (13 copies to borrow)

Through deeply personal conversations, Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce Perry explore how what happens to us in early childhood influences the people we become. They challenge us to shift from focusing on “What’s wrong with you?” or “Why are you behaving that way?” to asking “What happened to you?” (2 copies to borrow)