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Governors Propose Bold Economic Investments in 2023 State of the State Addresses
In 2023 State of the State addresses, Governors outlined efforts to grow and diversify their states’ economies. By Sally Rood, Sophia Yager, Katie Nichols In their 2023 State of the ...
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State Education Trends for 2023
The top trends across the early childhood, K-12 and postsecondary education continuum from Governors’ 2023 state addresses. By Jillian Meinhardt and Catherine Van Ness In 2022, 36 states and three ...
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State of the State – 2023
Governors of states, territories and commonwealths are outlining their priorities for 2023 in state of the state or commonwealth addresses, as well as inaugural addresses for new and re-elected Governors ...
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National Governors Association Welcomes 10 States to the Children and Families Core Advisory Board
The National Governors Association today announced its new Children and Families Core Advisory Board members for 2023. Each year, a small group of governors’ human services policy advisors and agency ...
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STRENGTHENING YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH
The United States faces a nationwide youth mental health crisis. The roots of this crisis existed before COVID-19, but the pandemic has both exacerbated and highlighted the scope of the challenges in addressing this issue. The time is right and the need has never been more apparent to discuss proven and innovative solutions for states.
Governor Phil Murphy’s 2022-2023 Chair’s Initiative will focus on four key pillars to address youth mental health:
- Addressing Prevention And Resilience Building
- Increasing Awareness And Reducing Stigma
- Insuring Access And Affordability Of Quality Treatment And Care
- Training And Supporting Caregivers And Teachers
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Governors Propose Bold Economic Investments in 2023 State of the State Addresses
In 2023 State of the State addresses, Governors outlined efforts to grow and diversify their states’ economies. By Sally Rood, ...
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State Education Trends for 2023
The top trends across the early childhood, K-12 and postsecondary education continuum from Governors’ 2023 state addresses. By Jillian Meinhardt ...
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State of the State – 2023
Governors of states, territories and commonwealths are outlining their priorities for 2023 in state of the state or commonwealth addresses, ...
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Governors Focus on Affordable Housing
In 2023 State of the State addresses, Governors outlined efforts to increase housing availability and improve affordability. The high cost ...
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State Approaches to Equitable Distributed Energy Resource Deployment
Expanding access to clean, renewable distributed energy resources in an equitable manner is a priority of many Governors, and can ...
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Messaging in a Bottle: Evaluating Behavioral Insights to Build Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence
Increasing COVID-19 vaccine uptake among children is a complex challenge that will likely require many different strategies from Governors. (Download) ...
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State Strategies to Address the Needs of Justice-Involved Youth Impacted by Collateral Consequences
This publication documents a series of learning calls, and a roundtable, held by NGA on collateral consequences for youth involved ...
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Expanding Child Care for Student Parents and Training Pathways for Early Childhood Educators
The NGA Center in partnership with Education Strategy Group held a virtual action lab focused on expanding access to and ...
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Preparing for potential energy disruptions – 2023 NGA Winter Meeting Task Force Meeting
At the 2023 NGA Winter Meeting, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont and Vermont Governor Phil Scott, Co-chairs of the Public Health ...
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Webinar: State Support of Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
In the wake of cyber attacks across the state, Wyoming created its Cyber Assistance Response Effort (CARE) team in 2019, ...
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Technology and Energy Innovation – 2023 NGA Winter Meeting
At NGA’s Winter Meeting, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear and South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster – co-chairs of the Economic Development ...
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Academic and Career Success – 2023 NGA Winter Meeting Task Force Meeting
At the 2023 NGA Winter Meeting, Idaho Governor Brad Little and Colorado Governor Jared Polis co-hosted a discussion on how ...
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