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Dominic Cappello is a Santa Fe, New Mexico-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 is focused on community mobilizing around promoting youth safety and strengthening resiliency factors, and is supported by the Department of Health in collaboration with University of New Mexico, and University of New Mexico-Valencia.

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