The Anna, Age Eight Institute was funded by the New Mexico state legislature in 2019. Our institute’s far-reaching goal is ensuring that our children, students and families are safe and thriving. To achieve this we’re using a data-driven process focused on building the capacity of local government, non-governmental agencies and the business sector to provide the surviving and thriving services that community members need to strengthen health, safety and resilience. We bring to each county’s leaders and stakeholders a process of brainstorming, learning, mobilizing and innovating, all with the support of state-of-the-art technology. Locally, the Institute’s 100% Community initiative helps guide collaborative efforts using the critical steps of assessing, planning, action and evaluation to ensure accessibility to the ten services shown to empower all families. We are part of New Mexico’s higher education system, with a mandate from our state’s leaders, to serve all New Mexicans by strengthening local systems of health, safety, learning and economic development.