Learning from the Pandemic: 100% Community Delivers the Plan to Make Our States Crisis-Proof

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Right now our communities face stark challenges. Pandemics and economic disruptions make once comfortable lives vulnerable, while those already enduring adversity find life impossible. 100% Community is the reset button, providing the roadmap for how we work together in new ways to create local systems of health, safety, education and economic stability.

From the authors of Anna, Age Eight: The data-driven prevention of childhood trauma and maltreatment, Katherine Ortega Courtney, PhD and Dominic Cappello’s new book 100% Community: Ensuring 10 Vital Services for Surviving and Thriving is a comprehensive guide for ensuring that all states, cities and communities become crisis-proof.

100% Community demonstrates how leaders can, and are right now, ensuring that ten vital services in their communities are fully working and accessible. Ortega Courtney and Cappello call these services that no one can do without, the “surviving services.” These begin with accessible medical care and include behavioral health care, safe housing, secure food and transport to vital services.

Once these services are secure, communities progress to ensuring access to the “thriving services” which include: parent supports, early childhood learning programs, community schools, youth mentors and job training. Each of these services play a vital role in keeping our communities safe from challenges — both predictable and unexpected.

For those thinking that these services already exist in their county, city or state, 100% Community will demonstrate how far that is from reality. Readers will discover that even if some of these services do exist, when a crisis strikes, access to these services often disappear in the blink of an eye. According to the authors: “If we have learned anything from decades of crisis after crisis, it is that we are all more vulnerable than we think.” 100% Community has the plan for the safety and success of everyone.

Alan Webber, Mayor of Santa Fe, NM, and co-founder of Fast Company magazine says about 100% Community, “In this time of crisis and change, we all need a guidebook toward a better future. As we come out from the current emergency, 100% Community gives us the map to social justice and equity, a template for a way forward that can turn a crisis into an opportunity for all of our children and families.”

100% Community provides a tested step-by-step guide to creating a seamless local system of health, safety and training. Insights from decades of real-world experience facing crisis provide context and expertise to ensure vital local systems that leave no one behind.

To contact the authors about this press release, please email info@tenvitalservices.org.