100% Community: Ensuring 10 Vital Services For Surviving and Thriving

by Katherine Ortega Courtney, Dominic Cappello

We 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.In 100% Community, we provide you and your community with the insights to ensure thatten vital services are working well. The services that none of us can do without, the “surviving services,” start with medical care and include behavioral health care, safe housing, secure food and transport to vital services. The “thriving services” include parent supports, early childhood learning programs, community schools, youth mentors and job training. Each of these services play a vital role in keeping us safe from adversities—both predictable and unexpected.100% Community shows how we can create a local system of readiness by investing in strong local systems of care, safety and education, and how we can decrease health disparities along with a host of long-standing and costly challenges including adverse childhood experiences, trauma, substance misuse, violence and untreated mental health problems.By harnessing data, research and technology, the public and private sectors can work together with unprecedented collaboration to ensure that ten vital services are accessible to 100% of us. 100% Community provides a tested step-by-step guide to creating a seamless local system of health and safety. Together, with ten vital services accessible to 100%, we’re all stronger and safer.Katherine Ortega Courtney, PhD and Dominic Cappello are advocates for solving colliding challenges using data, technology and collaboration.They know why systems that should protect us, can fail us--and teach leadership development and data-driven problem-solving. Dr. Courtney’s expertise in data analysis, continuous quality improvement, collective impact and experimental psychology guides communities and organizations through turbulent and timely change. Cappello is a community systems strategist and New York Times bestseller author, whose Ten Talks book series on family safety reached a national audience when his innovative work was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

661 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 21, 2020