Dominic Cappello

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 currently works for the New Mexico Department of Health as the Youth Injury Prevention Coordinator and is developing a youth injury prevention project called the Resiliency Corps. The Resiliency Corps focuses on the implementation of evidence-based youth injury and violence prevention strategies. It also promotes the strengthening of resiliency factors. The five year pilot project, which also offers the college course, "Youth Safety, Health and Resiliency" to residents, is sponsored by the New Mexico Department of Health in collaboration with the University of New Mexico-Valencia.

References

• Dominic Cappello: Talking to kids about violence, CNN.com, March 8, 2001. Retrieved July 22, 2007.
• New Mexico Resiliency Corps

Books

• Ten Talks Parents Must Have With Their Children About Violence ISBN 0-7868-8549-1
• Ten Talks Parents Must Have With Their Children About Sex And Character (with Pepper Schwartz, PhD) ISBN 0-7868-8548-3
• Ten Talks Parents Must Have With Their Children About Drugs and Choices (with Xenia Becher, MSW) ISBN 0-7868-8664-1

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