Economic, Human Services & Workforce Division
The NGA Center for Best Practices' Economic, Human Services & Workforce (EHSW) Division focuses on best practices, policy options, and service delivery improvements across a range of current and emerging issues, including economic development and innovation, workforce development, employment services, research and development policies, and human services for children, youth, low-income families, and people with disabilities.
The NGA Center for Best Practices' Education Division provides information on best practices in early childhood, elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education, including human capital, dropout prevention and recovery, high school redesign, access to and success in postsecondary education, and extra learning opportunities.
Environment, Energy & Transportation Division
The NGA Center Environment, Energy & Transportation (EET) Division identifies best practices and provides technical assistance on issues including energy planning, policies and programs, energy, transportation, and infrastructure financing; building a modern energy workforce; transportation and land use planning; and clean up and stewardship of nuclear weapons sites.
The NGA Center for Best Practices' Health Division covers a broad range of health financing, service delivery, and policy issues, including containing health-care costs, health insurance trends and innovations, state initiatives in public health, aging and long-term care, disease management and health care information technology, healthcare quality, mental health and substance abuse, and health workforce.
Homeland Security & Public Safety Division
The NGA Center Homeland Security & Public Safety Division supports governors' homeland security and criminal justice policy advisors. This work includes supporting the Governors' Homeland Security Advisors Council (GHSAC) and providing technical assistance to a network of governors' criminal justice policy advisors. Issues include emergency preparedness, interoperability, cyber-crime and cyber-security, intelligence coordination, emergency management, sentencing and corrections, forensics, and justice information technology.
