ANNA, AGE EIGHT INSTITUTE

FOR 100% TO THRIVE

“For 100% To Thrive” asks us to address the childhood trauma that leads to our most costly public health, education, and safety challenges. The story poses the question, “What kind of society allows an epidemic of childhood trauma to continue?”

Our strategy for ending trauma is radically simple: ensure all families have access to the ten vital services for surviving and thriving.

WHAT DETERMINES OUR HEALTH?

The initiative identifies the adverse social determinants of health in the form of families’ lack of access to vital services. These services, such as medical and behavioral healthcare, determine our quality of life with the capacity to prevent adverse childhood experiences, trauma, substance use disorders, and poor school achievement leading to a lack of job readiness. By guaranteeing services, we go upstream to prevent family involvement with child welfare, law enforcement, the courts, and emergency room care.

WE’RE ENSURING TEN VITAL SERVICES

The 100% New Mexico initiative, a program of NMSU’s Anna, Age Eight Institute, provides each county with a collaborative process for transforming our under-resourced communities into fully-resourced environments, creating local access to services described in the book 100% Community: Ensuring ten vital services for surviving and thriving. We are making a system-wide change in each county, creating a seamless system of family services where ten service sectors are working in alignment with local networks of organizations.

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Image 1. The 100% New Mexico Model: This graphic illustrates the ten vital services for surviving and thriving shown to increase the health, safety, and self-sufficiency of families.

We're creating 100% Family Centers

The 100% New Mexico initiative county surveys reveal many barriers family members face when seeking services. The initiative addresses all barriers to ten family services by building the 100% Family Center: One Stop Service Hubs and Community Schools as 100% Service Hubs to increase access to all ten vital services through onsite, web-based, and navigator supported linking to service providers. With one-stop-service hubs, we can confidently say, “We’re referring families to services.”

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Image 2. The 100% Family Center Concept: This mockup emphasizes how 100% Family Centers will be accessible to everyone. To learn how our concept and plan differs from past efforts, check out the 100% Family Centers project page.

Our return on investment is 100% thriving families

The 100% New Mexico initiative was founded with a deep respect for New Mexico’s families and a strong desire to transform our society into one that values and loves every child. By investing in our initiative’s local strategies, we’re investing in the lives of all our children and students. The return on investment is trauma-free children, successful students, and self-sufficient families. The initiative is a groundbreaking strategy described as visionary, audacious, and too necessary to do anything less than succeed. Join us as we build a seamless support system in 33 counties where 100% of children, students, and families can thrive.

Learn More

Visit our local initiative programs, enroll in our courses, and learn more about the 100% New Mexico initiative by visiting the official 100% New Mexico site.

Visit 100nm.org

OUR TEAM

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Katherine Ortega Courtney, PhD

Dr. Ortega Courtney serves as the co-director of the Anna Age Eight Institute and is the co-developer of the 100% New Mexico initiative. She 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 books 100% Community and David, Age 14: Who and what determines our children’s health, education and future to guide local leadership in every county in their work designing trauma-free and truly family-friendly cities and towns. Email: koc@nmsu.edu

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Dominic Cappello

Cappello serves as the co-director of the Anna Age Eight Institute and is the co-developer of the 100% New Mexico initiative. He 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 created 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 books 100% Community: Ensuring 10 vital services for surviving and thriving and David, Age 14: Who and what determines our children’s health, education and future to guide local change agents in their work transforming the adverse social determinants of health into the positive ones. 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

Marangellie Trujillo

Marangellie serves as the Associate Director, the official liaison to all county initiatives. 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 the 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, 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 redefine 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 to making this vision a reality. For questions related to strengthening or starting a local 100% New Mexico initiative, developing the 100% Family Center: One-Stop Hub, 100% Community Schools, or sponsoring a 100% Summit. Email: maratru@nmsu.edu