NGA Center for Best Practices
The NGA Center for Best Practices teams and divisions develop innovative solutions to today’s most pressing public policy challenges. The center is the only research and development firm that directly serves the nation’s Governors.
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State Considerations for the 42 CFR Part 8 Rule
Healing Divides Through Volunteerism and Service
Briefing on State Pardon and Commutation Processes
Governors Continue Exploring Innovative Methods to Scale Youth Apprenticeship
Disagree Better
Americans need to disagree better. And by that we don’t mean that we need to be nicer to each other, although that’s helpful. We need to learn to disagree in a way that allows us to find solutions and solve problems instead of endlessly bickering.
The “exhausted majority” of Americans want this, and the science is clear about interventions that reduce polarization. As doers and builders, Governors are in a unique position to model what healthy conflict looks like.
Governor Spencer Cox’s Disagree Better NGA Chair’s initiative looks at the problems of polarization, elevates the solutions that groups around the country are already implementing, and features Governors showing what disagreeing better looks like. Through public debates, service projects, public service announcements and a variety of other tactics, Americans will see a more positive and optimistic way of working through our problems.
Program Areas
Center for Best Practices Library
2023 Governors’ Advisors Energy Policy Institute
International Overdose Awareness Day 2023
NGA Center Launches Policy Academy to Advance Youth Apprenticeship
HSPAI Call on Youth Mental Health Playbook
Learning and Employment Records – States And The Infrastructure Of Opportunity
Strategies to Address Engineering Workforce Challenges
Regional Workshops Explore Healthcare Workforce Solutions
Implementing Best Practices Across the Continuum of Care to Prevent Overdose
NGA Holds Summer Workforce Symposium in Fargo
NGA and US DOL Launch the Workforce Strategic Planning Collaborative
Workforce Strategic Planning Collaborative
State and Territory Approaches to Improving Care for Individuals Affected by Stimulant and Polysubstance Use
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