Name Dominic Cappello | Role Writer | |
Books Ten Talks Parents Must Hav, Ten Talks Parents Must Hav, Ten Talks Parents Must Hav | ||
Dominic Cappello is a Santa Fe-based writer, designer, and educator. He is the creator of the Ten Talks book series published by Hyperion in 2000 and 2001. Ten Talks received national attention when Oprah Winfrey created a show around the book on sex and character in October 2000, featuring parents who had used the books' approaches to family communication.
Cappello is also the author (with Susan Duron, PhD) of the parent-focused HIV prevention program "Can We Talk?" developed by the National Education Association -Health Information Network through a cooperative agreement with the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Adolescent and School Health in 1999.
Cappello, working for the New Mexico Department of Health, developed the youth injury prevention project called the Resiliency Corps. The Resiliency Corps focused on the implementation of evidence-based youth injury, violence and substance misuse prevention strategies. The five year pilot project promoted community mobilizing around policies shown to reduce injuries and offered the e-course "Youth Safety, Health and Resiliency" at the University of New Mexico-Valencia.
He is the co-founder of Safety and Success, a socially-engaged design and strategy firm in Seattle. Cappello is currently leading the implementation of the Data Scholars Initiative, a management training program on data analysis, research and continuous quality improvement for child welfare systems.