About This Hub
Local action teams know there is no shortage of proven ways to expand child care and early childhood learning—but they also know they do not need to start from scratch or reinvent the wheel. This hub offers a focused set of case profiles to help you move from “we have gaps in child care and early learning” to “here are specific local solutions we can adapt.”
This hub is designed for 100% New Mexico early childhood and child care action teams and their partners who are working to ensure that families across New Mexico can access affordable, high‑quality, culturally responsive child care and early learning opportunities. It is not about every curriculum or program; instead, it highlights service delivery strategies, workforce models, access innovations, and policy and funding tools that can help counties and tribal communities close their biggest child care and early learning gaps.
The examples here are not endorsements and they are not comprehensive. Each case profile is a snapshot of how a particular community, provider, school, or system is addressing specific barriers to child care and early learning. Your local needs, culture, and resources will shape which models make sense to adapt.
Explore the categories below to get started or learn more.
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How to Use This Hub
- Choose a starting category.Begin with the category that best matches your current priorities or gaps.
- Review 1–3 case profiles with your team.Read them together and highlight what feels most relevant to your county or tribal community.
- Ask three key questions.
- What local problem or system failure would this help address?
- Who would we need as partners to try something like this here?
- What might be a realistic first step in the next 3–6 months?
- Use examples to shape concrete asks.Bring examples to city halls, county leaders, school districts, or state partners as you make practical requests for funding, policy changes, and support.
- Return as your work evolves.As your initiative grows, you can revisit other categories and add new models that reflect your county's learning.
How Each Case Example Is Organized
Each case profile follows the same structure:
- Case – name and location of the program or model.
- Category and model type – where it fits in the hub and what kind of model it is.
- What problem it solves – the core access, skills, or workforce gaps it addresses.
- What system failure(s) it addresses – underlying structural issues the model tries to fix.
- Who it serves – youth, young adults, adults, employers, or communities who benefit.
- What it is – brief description of the model and how it works.
- How people access it – referral and access pathways for participants, schools, employers, workforce agencies, and community partners.
- Who runs it – organizations and partners responsible for implementation.
- Policy or practice levers – rules, agreements, policies, and practices that make the model possible.
- Funding approach – how it is paid for and sustained.
- Why it matters for New Mexico – relevance to New Mexico's residents, industries, cultural context, and access and affordability goals.
- Transferability for New Mexico counties – how local teams might adapt the model.
- Learn more – URL(s) for further information.
You can use these examples to inform local planning, grant proposals, community education, workshop discussions, and conversations with local and state leaders—grounding debates in concrete models rather than abstractions.
Different Solutions for Different Counties
The 100% Solutions Hub is a living resource for 100% New Mexico initiative members and partners. It will be reviewed and updated regularly, and these case profiles are learning examples, not endorsements. Each profile shows a model that New Mexico communities can study, adapt, and customize to fit local needs, local distances, and local priorities.
Solutions in New Mexico will not look identical in Albuquerque, Gallup, Las Vegas, Española, Farmington, Hobbs, or a rural tribal community. The purpose of this hub is not to prescribe a single answer, but to help local teams imagine what is possible and identify the first doable step toward a more connected county.
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Questions & Contributions
Share ideas, case studies, updates, insights, or requests for technical assistance:
annaageeight@nmsu.edu
Disclaimer
Case studies on this site are learning examples, not endorsements. Because many projects rely on year‑to‑year government funding, some may no longer be operating, yet they still offer valuable models that communities can learn from. Each one shows a model that New Mexico communities can study, adapt, and customize to fit local needs and priorities.