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.
Latest
NGA Convenes Six States to Explore Best Practices to Advance Disability Inclusive Workforce Policy
Governor McKee Hosts Statewide Event to Address Chronic Absenteeism
Governors Support Mental Health Awareness Month
Governors Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk on Housing
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
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
Preparing for and Responding to Concurrent Crises – 2023 Annual Meeting
Strengthening Youth Mental Health – 2023 NGA Annual Meeting
Governors’ Actions to Accelerate Infrastructure Projects – 2023 NGA Annual Meeting
Disagree Better – 2023 NGA Annual Meeting
HSPAI Call on Summer Hunger Opportunities
Preparing the Next Generation of the Healthcare Workforce: State Strategies for Recruitment and Retention
PAST NGA CHAIRS INITIATIVES
- 2022-2023
Gov. Phil Murphy’s Initiative
Strengthening Youth Mental Health - 2021-2022
Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s Initiative
K-12 Computer Science Education - 2019-2020
Gov. Larry Hogan’s Initiative
Infrastructure: Foundation for Success - View all…